jerky
/ˈd͡ʒɝki/ verb C2- To cure and preserve (meat) by drying it, making jerky.
He/she/it jerkies · Past jerkied · Past participle jerkied · -ing form jerkying
Verb forms
- Base form
- jerky
- He/she/it
- jerkies
- Past
- jerkied
- Past participle
- jerkied
- -ing form
- jerkying
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It was Marilla who spoke, alarm in every jerky word.
His grey clothes and jerky, zigzag, irregular progress made him not unlike some huge moth himself.
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