Jerk

Definition

jerk / dʒɜ:k / n ၁။ ဆတ္ခနဲ၊ တံု႔ခနဲ၊ သိမ့္ခနဲလႈပ္ရွားမႈ။ With a jerk of his head he indicated she should follow. ❍ The bus stopped with a jerk. See also PHYSICAL JERKS ၂။ ( infml derog ) ငတံုး။ v ၁။ ဆတ္ခနဲဆြဲသည္။ He jerked the fishingrod out of the water. ❍ She jerked her hand away. ၂။ တံု႔ခနဲရပ္သည္။ ေဆာင့္ဆြဲသည္။ ဆတ္ခနဲဆြဲသည္။ 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 ဆတ္ေတာက္ဆတ္ေတာက္။ တံု႔ပယ္ တံု႔ပယ္။ အထစ္ထစ္အေငါ့ေငါ့။ ❏ jerk sth out [ PHRV ] တုန္တုန္ယင္ယင္၊ ထစ္ထစ္ ေငါ့ေငါ့ေျပာသည္။ jerk out a request/ an apology. ❏ jerky adj ဆတ္ေတာက္ဆတ္ေတာက္၊ တံု႔ပယ္ တံု႔ပယ္ သြားေသာ။ short jerky movements/ steps.

Examples

1. The train jerked forwards.
2. Jerking her head towards the valley
3. she said
4. ‘What’s down there?’
5. The taxi jerked to a stop outside a large hotel.
6. Lucy jerked awake from a nightmare.
7. George strode to the window and jerked back the curtains.