Jerk vs Mug - What's the difference?
jerk | mug |
A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
* 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
(US, slang, pejorative) A dull or stupid person.
(US, slang, pejorative) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered or disagreeable.
(physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
(obsolete) A soda jerk.
(weightlifting) A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.
To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]
To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
(US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
(obsolete) To beat, to hit.
(obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
(usually, transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.
(obsolete) To flout with contempt.
(Caribbean) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade
(Caribbean) Meat cured by jerking; charqui.
To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.
* 2011 , Dominic Smith, Bright and Distant Shores , page 106:
(archaic) Easily fooled, gullible.
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
(slang) The face, often used deprecatingly.
(slang, vulgar) A gullible or easily-cheated person.
(UK, slang) A stupid or contemptible person.
To strike in the face.
*1821 , The Fancy , i. p.261:
*:Madgbury showed game, drove Abbot in a corner, but got well Mugg'd.
*1857 , "The Leary Man", in Anglicus Ducange, The Vulgar Tongue
*:And if you come to fibbery, You must Mug one or two,
*1866 , London Miscellany , 5 May, p.102:
*:"Suppose they had Mugged' you?" / "Done what to me?" / "' Mugged you. Slogged you, you know."
(lb) To assault for the purpose of robbery.
(lb) To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner.
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(lb) To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
Learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.
As nouns the difference between jerk and mug
is that jerk is a sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body or jerk can be (caribbean) a rich, spicy jamaican marinade while mug is a large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.As verbs the difference between jerk and mug
is that jerk is to make a sudden uncontrolled movement or jerk can be to cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun while mug is to strike in the face.As an adjective mug is
(archaic) easily fooled, gullible.jerk
English
Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl) . Related to (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- The black cloth bestrewn with white beads blew up from time to time, laying bare the coffin. The tired bearers walked more slowly, and it advanced with constant jerks , like a boat that pitches with every wave.
- When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk !
- I finally fired him, because he was being a real jerk to his customers, even to some of the staff.
- You really are a jerk sometimes.
Usage notes
(wikipedia jerk) * Jerk is measured in metres per second cubed (m/s3) in SI units, or in feet per second cubed (ft/s3) in imperial units.Synonyms
* (sudden movement) jolt, lurch, jump * (quick tug) yank * (stupid person) numbskull * (unlikable person) asshole, bastard, twat, knobhead, tosser, wanker, git, dick. * jolt (British), surge, lurchDerived terms
* jerkish * soda jerkSee also
* acceleration * displacement * velocityVerb
(en verb)- York came to me first, whilst the groom stood at Ginger's head. He drew my head back and fixed the rein so tight that it was almost intolerable; then he went to Ginger, who was impatiently jerking her head up and down against the bit, as was her way now.
- (Florio)
- to jerk a stone
Derived terms
* jerk off * jerksomeEtymology 2
From American (etyl) charquear, from charqui, from (etyl) .Noun
(-)- Jerk chicken is a local favorite.
Verb
(en verb)- The Lemakot in the north strangled widows and threw them into the cremation pyres of their dead husbands. If they defeated potential invaders the New Irish hanged the vanquished from banyan trees, flensed their windpipes, removed their heads, left their intestines to jerk in the sun.
mug
English
Adjective
(mugger)- "Great heavens! Is it?" Drummond helped himself to marmalade. "And to think that I once pictured myself skewering Huns with it. Do you think anybody would be mug enough to buy it, James?"
Noun
(en noun)- What an ugly mug .
- He’s a gullible mug – he believed her again.
