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Jerk American Whip Uncertain Related Water Sense Recorded

正面 8588.jerk
英 [dʒɜːk]美 [dʒɝk]

背面
释义:
n. 肌肉抽搐;性情古怪的人;蠢人;急拉vi. 痉挛;急拉;颠簸地行进vt. 猛拉n. (Jerk)人名;(俄)埃尔克;(匈)耶尔克
例句:
1. He indicated the bedroom with a jerk of his head.他扭头指了指卧室的方向。

1. 在上面平滑地将其抹掉。2. 谐音“我把你忘而死”。3. Another possibility is the conjunction of ob (“over”) + liv- ("to become dark", from livid), hence, to have the mind darkened, forget; to forget.
jerk 猛拉,颠簸,颤动,混蛋词源不详,可能来自拟声词,模仿猛拉,颠簸,嘎吱作响的声音。词义混蛋,二流子可能缩写自俚语jerk off,手淫,手淫坯子。比较wank,wanker.
jerk (v.1)"to pull," 1540s, "to lash, strike as with a whip," of uncertain origin, perhaps echoic. Related: Jerked; jerking.jerk (v.2)as a method of preserving meat, 1707, American English, from American Spanish carquear, from charqui (see jerky). Related: Jerked.jerk (n.2)"tedious and ineffectual person," 1935 (the lyric in "Big Rock Candy Mountain" apparently is "Where they hung the Turk [not jerk] that invented work"), American English carnival slang, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from jerkwater town (1878), where a steam locomotive crew had to take on boiler water from a trough or a creek because there was no water tank [Barnhart, OED]. This led 1890s to an adjectival use of jerk as "inferior, insignificant." Alternatively, or influenced by, verbal phrase jerk off "masturbate" [Rawson].jerk (n.1)1550s, "stroke of a whip," from jerk (v.1). Sense of "sudden sharp pull or twist" first recorded 1570s. Meaning "involuntary spasmodic movement of limbs or features" first recorded 1805. As the name of a popular dance, it is attested from 1966. Sense in soda jerk attested from 1883, from the pulling motion required to work the taps."

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