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Definition: Jerking |
JerkingAdjective1. Not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat". Noun1. An abrupt spasmodic movement. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "jerking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: JerkingSynonyms: arrhythmic (adj), jerky (adj), unsteady (adj), jerk (n), jolt (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Jerking |
| English words defined with "jerking": Ballotade ♦ Cerebro-spinal sclerosis ♦ generalized epilepsy, grand mal epilepsy ♦ jerkily ♦ Short sea ♦ Yerk. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "jerking": Dodd buddle ♦ rope plucking ♦ salvage diver. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Stop jerking off in my mother's room (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck) Time sure flies when you're young and jerking off. (The Basketball Diaries; writing credit: Bryan Goluboff) God, I'll bet he's in there jerking off. (Ghost World; writing credit: Daniel Clowes) A classic wrestling match between the likes of Flair and Steamboat, or a midget jerking off in a garbage can (NWA: Total Nonstop Action; writing credit: Jerry Jarrett; Vince Russo) You'd better not be back there jerking off to the Japanese comics (Unbreakable; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The light danced, jerking over the people |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It refers to sudden, involuntary jerking of a muscle or group of muscles. (references) | |
This approach has been shown to be helpful in reducing nighttime leg jerking. (references) | ||
The person may stare into space for several seconds and may have some twitching or jerking of muscles. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Jerking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.63% of the time. "Jerking" is used about 160 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 95.63% | 153 | 25,427 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.5% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.88% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 160 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "jerking": jerking off. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "jerking": jerking-off. | |
Ending with "jerking": tear-jerking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "jerking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 急拉 (Jerked). (various references) | |
Danish | undulerende nystagmus (amaurotic nystagmus, jerking nystagmus, miners'nystagmus, undulatory nystagmus, vibratory nystagmus), pendulnystagmus (amaurotic nystagmus, jerking nystagmus, miners'nystagmus, undulatory nystagmus, vibratory nystagmus), opsoklonus (amaurotic nystagmus, jerking nystagmus, miners'nystagmus, undulatory nystagmus, vibratory nystagmus). (various references) | |
Dutch | nystagmus oscillatorius (amaurotic nystagmus, jerking nystagmus, miners'nystagmus, undulatory nystagmus, vibratory nystagmus), een schudzeef bestaat uit een zeefbodem die door een excentriek heen en weer wordt bewogen (most screens comprise a cloth to which a jerking motion is imparted by an unbalanced pulley). (various references) | |
French | un crible vibrations comprend généralement une toile soumise un mouvement saccadé par un dispositif balourd (most screens comprise a cloth to which a jerking motion is imparted by an unbalanced pulley), nystagmus pendulaire (jerking nystagmus), nystagmus oscillatoire (jerking nystagmus). (various references) | |
German | zusammenzuckend, zuckend (galvanic, shrugging), zerrend (lugging, tugging). (various references) | |
Greek | τράνταγμα (jar, jerk, jolt), τίναγμα (bump, concussion, flick, jerk, jolt, jounce, percussion, shake, shock, toss, twitch). (various references) | |
Italian | un vaglio comprende generalmente una tela sottoposta a un movimento a scosse da un dispositivo ad eccentrico (most screens comprise a cloth to which a jerking motion is imparted by an unbalanced pulley), nistagmo pendolare (amaurotic nystagmus, jerking nystagmus, miners'nystagmus, see-saw nystagmus, undulatory nystagmus, vibratory nystagmus). (various references) | |
Korean | 급히 당김. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erkingjay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | um crivo vibratório compreende geralmente uma malha de crivagem submetida a um movimento pulsatório provocado por um sistema rotativo de massa excêntrica (most screens comprise a cloth to which a jerking motion is imparted by an unbalanced pulley), nistagmo pendular (amaurotic nystagmus, jerking nystagmus, miners'nystagmus, undulatory nystagmus, vibratory nystagmus). (various references) | |
Romanian | convulsie (convulsion, spasm). (various references) | |
Russian | дергать толчок (jerk). (various references) | |
Spanish | nistagmus pendular (amaurotic nystagmus, jerking nystagmus, miners'nystagmus, undulatory nystagmus, vibratory nystagmus). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Jerking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bjoerling, erkin, Gerkang, jaking, jekin, Jerakeen, jergin, jerken, jerki, jerkings, jetking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "jerking" (pronounced jer"king) |
| 4 | -er" k i ng | lurking, perking, reworking, shirking, smirking, working. |
| 3 | -k i ng | antismoking, aching, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-j-k-n-r" | |
-1 letter: jerkin, jinker. | |
-2 letters: eking, inker, reign, reink, renig. | |
-3 letters: gien, gink, girn, grin, jerk, jink, keir, kern, kier, kine, king, kirn, rein, ring, rink. | |
-4 letters: eng, erg, ern, gen, gie, gin, ink, ire, irk, jig, jin, keg, ken, kin, kir, reg, rei, rig, rin. | |
-5 letters: en, er, in, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-j-k-n-r" | |
+4 letters: rejacketing. | |
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