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Jerky vs Charqui - What's the difference?

jerky | charqui |

As nouns the difference between jerky and charqui

is that jerky is lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun while charqui is jerky.

As an adjective jerky

is characterized by physical jerking.

jerky

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(er)
  • Characterized by physical jerking.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , through Spanish charqui.

    Noun

  • Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun.
    • Derived terms
    * jerk * jerked beef * jerked meat
    See also
    * air-dried * biltong * freeze dried * Quechuan chunyu (freeze-dried potatoes) * pemmican, pemican * smoked meat * smoker * sun dried English terms with multiple etymologies

    charqui

    English

    Noun

  • (South and Central America, Western US) jerky
  • * 1839 , , John Murray (1913), page 273:
  • *:When it was dark, we made a fire beneath a little arbour of bamboos, fried our charqui (or dried slips of beef), took our maté, and were quite comfortable.

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