Jerk vs Stupid - What's the difference?
jerk | stupid |
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:
Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
To the point of stupor.
(archaic) Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
* 1702 Alexander Pope, Sappho 128:
(archaic) Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
* 1744 George Berkeley, Siris §190:
(slang) Amazing.
(slang) damn, annoying, darn
A stupid person; a fool.
* 1910 , , ‘The Strategist’, Reginald in Russia :
* 1922 , Elizabeth G. Young, Homestead ranch
* 1996 , Anita Rau Badamim, Tamarind Mem
As nouns the difference between jerk and stupid
is that jerk is a sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body while stupid is a stupid person; a fool.As a verb jerk
is to make a sudden uncontrolled movement.As an adjective stupid is
lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.As an adverb stupid is
extremely.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.
stupid
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Because it's a big stupid jellyfish!
- Neurobiology bores me stupid .
- No sigh to rise, no tear had pow'r to flow, Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of woe.
- Were it not for [fire], the whole wou'd be one great stupid inanimate mass.
- That dunk was stupid! His head was above the rim!
- I fell over the stupid wire.
Synonyms
* dense, dumb, retarded, unintelligent * (especially in the Caribbean) stupidy * See alsoDerived terms
* stupe * stupefy * stupid-ass * stupidity * stupidly * stupidnessReferences
*Noun
(en noun)- ‘You stupid !’ screamed the girls, ‘we've got to guess the word.’
- "What a stupid I am!" Harry exclaimed, as she watched the man ride away in the distance.
- At least those stupids got their money's worth out of this country before they burnt their lungs out.