jerk

英 [d???k] 美[d??k]

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第三人稱單數:?jerks;過去式:?jerked;過去分詞:?jerked;現在分詞:?jerking;

jerk 猛拉，顛簸，顫動，混蛋

詞源不詳，可能來自擬聲詞，模仿猛拉，顛簸，嘎吱作響的聲音。詞義混蛋，二流子可能縮寫自俚語jerk off,手淫，手淫坯子。比較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.

5. The knife was stuck but she pulled it out with a jerk.: 那把刀子被卡住了,她猛地一拔,把它拔了出來.