jerk

• n. 肌肉抽搐；性情古怪的人；蠢人；急拉
• vi. 痙攣；急拉；顛簸地行進(jìn)
• vt. 猛拉
• n. (Jerk)人名；(俄)埃爾克；(匈)耶爾克

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.

1. He indicated the bedroom with a jerk of his head.

他扭頭指了指臥室的方向。

來自柯林斯例句

2. He felt his head jerk reflexively.

他感到他的頭反射性地動了一下。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Don't jerk me around, Mr Crook.

別耍我，克魯克先生。

來自柯林斯例句

4. It was a knee-jerk reaction on her part.

這是她未加思索做出的反應(yīng)。

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

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.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》