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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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jerk

/dʒəːk/

US pronunciation
American sound/dʒəːk/
jerk
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

US voice -> jerk

Myanmar meaning

(n) ဆတ်ခနဲ၊ တုံ့ခနဲ၊ သိမ့်ခနဲလှုပ်ရှားမှု။

Full entry

jerk / dʒɜ:k / n

၁။ ဆတ်ခနဲ၊ တုံ့ခနဲ၊ သိမ့်ခနဲလှုပ်ရှားမှု။ With a jerk of his head he indicated she should follow. ❍ The bus stopped with a jerk. See also PHYSICAL JERKS
၂။ (infml derog ) ငတုံး။
v
၁။ ဆတ်ခနဲဆွဲသည်။ He jerked the fishingrod out of the water. ❍ She jerked her hand away.
၂။ တုံ့ခနဲရပ်သည်။ ဆောင့်ဆွဲသည်။ ဆတ်ခနဲဆွဲသည်။ The train jerked to a halt. ❍ She jerked back in surprise. ❍ Try not to jerk the camera. ❍ He jerked his head towards the door.
❏ jerkily / -Çli / adv ဆတ်တောက်ဆတ်တောက်။ တုံ့ပယ် တုံ့ပယ်။ အထစ်ထစ်အငေါ့ငေါ့။
❏ jerk sth out [PHRV ] တုန်တုန်ယင်ယင်၊ ထစ်ထစ် ငေါ့ငေါ့ပြောသည်။ jerk out a request/ an apology.
❏ jerky adj ဆတ်တောက်ဆတ်တောက်၊ တုံ့ပယ် တုံ့ပယ် သွားသော။ short jerky movements/ steps.

More examples
  • The train jerked forwards.
  • Jerking her head towards the valley, she said, ‘What’s down there?’
  • The taxi jerked to a stop outside a large hotel.
  • Lucy jerked awake from a nightmare.
  • George strode to the window and jerked back the curtains.
Synonyms
yank, tug, pull, wrench, tweak, blockhead, bounce, brute, bumbling person, bump, dance, dolt, donkey, dope, dunce, flick, fling, flip, flop, fool, foolish person, grab, haul, hook, hurtle, idiot, imbecile, jackass, jolt, judder, kangaroo, lug, lurch, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numbskull, oaf, pluck, quake, quiver, rascal, seize, shake, shiver, shrug, shudder, simpleton, sling, snag, snatch, spasm, stupid, throw, thrust, tremble, twit, twitch, vellicate, whisk, wiggle, wrest, wriggle, wring
Antonyms
be still, brain, let go, release
Cross references
yanktugpullwrenchtweakblockheadbouncebrutebumbling personbumpdancedoltdonkeydopedunceflickflingflipflopfoolfoolish persongrabhaulhookhurtleidiotimbecilejackass
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