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Jerky vs Toey - What's the difference?

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Jerky is a related term of toey.


As adjectives the difference between jerky and toey

is that jerky is characterized by physical jerking while toey is (slang|chiefly|australia) agitated, anticipatory, excited (sometimes specifically sexually so), nervous.

As a noun jerky

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

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

    toey

    English

    Adjective

  • (slang, chiefly, Australia) Agitated, anticipatory, excited (sometimes specifically sexually so), nervous.
  • * 2000 , Joan Kilby, The Cattleman’s Bride , Harlequin, page 158,
    • “You’re toeyer than a chook caught in a swag.”
    She rolled her eyes. “I still don’t know what you mean.”

    Synonyms

    * (agitated) antsy * (sexually excited) horny, randy

    Derived terms

    * toey as a Roman sandal

    See also

    * frustrated

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