jerkern.

Brit.

/ˈdʒəːkə/, U.S.

/ˈdʒərkər/

Forms: see jerk v.¹ and -er suffix¹; also 1700s jerquer.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: jerk v.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < jerk v.¹ + -er suffix¹.In sense 4 so called with reference to the sudden rapid movements characteristic of this fish. With sense 5 compare slightly later jerk v.¹ 8.

†1. A person who wields a whip, switch, or rod; a person who whips or lashes another. Cf. jerk v.¹ 1. Obsolete.

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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who scourges or whips

whipper1552

jerker1565

scourger1580

lasher1611

firkera1626

whipster1670

yarker1677

bone-polisher1803

horsewhipper1808

flagellator1824

thong-man1876

sjambokker1953

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Tintinnáculus, he that maketh a ryngyng: he that beateth a transgressour with roddes: a ierker.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. R4 Yea Madam Gabriela, are you such an old ierker.

1651 T. triplett in J. Smith Loves Hero & Leander 54 Take heed..Lest you taste of his Lash; For I have found him a Jerker [1719 Jirker].

1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue IV. ix. 139 This Baboon, bare-arst, Monkey-fac'd Jerker, that was to correct my Rogueship.

2. A person who or thing which jerks, or causes something to jerk (in various senses of the verb).ink-jerker, needle-jerker: see the first element.

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1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe ii. sig. C4 Hetherto your dauncers legges bow for-sooth, and Caper, and Ierke, and Firke, and dandle the bodie aboue them, as it were their great childe, though the speciall Ierker bee aboue this place I hope.

1895 St. Andrew's Cross June 223/2 I was in the smaller kind of coach called a ‘jerker’. And the jerks were one long succession of unseatings, disturbings, discomposings and dislocations.

1950 J. Halliday Olympic Weight-Lifting i. 22 Most lifters using this method of cleaning..are comparatively poor jerkers.

2004 Afr. Amer. Rev. 38 40/2 Fifty, now there's a hundred streaming past me. Laughers, jerkers, spitters. They crash into the woods.

3. U.S. A person who makes involuntary convulsive or spasmodic movements of the body, as a manifestation of evangelistic religious fervour. Cf. jerk n.¹ 3b. Now historical and rare.

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > convulsionism > [noun] > person > jerking

jerker1807

1807 R. McNemar Kentucky Revival iv. 62 Head dresses were of little account among the female jerkers.

1845 S. Judd Margaret i. viii. 48 The jumpers of Wales were outdone by the jerkers of Kentucky.

1889 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 148 Examples of this in America are seen in the ‘Jumpers’, ‘Jerkers’, and various revival extravagances.

1943 New Eng. Q. 16 349 The good people of the Connecticut Valley came to Jesus in a far more orderly fashion than did the ranters and jerkers of Gaspar County, Kentucky.

4. U.S. The hornyhead chub, Nocomis biguttatus, a cyprinid fish found in rivers and streams of North America. Now rare.

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1841 Boston Jrnl. Nat. Hist. 3 344 This species bites at the hook with as much energy and as suddenly as the speckled trout, and hence the fishermen and boys have given him the name of Jerker.

1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 212 C[eratichthys] biguttatus..Horny Head; River Chub; Jerker.

1959 V. Evanoff Nat. Baits for Fishermen ii. 27 The Hornyhead Chub (Nocomis biguttatus). Also known as the jerker, this is a heavy-bodied minnow.

5. U.S. colloquial. A person who dispenses drinks, esp. soda or beer, at a soda fountain or bar. Frequently with preceding word, specifying the drink dispensed, as beer jerker; see also soda-jerker n. at soda n.¹ Compounds 3b. Now rare.

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1864 Gleason's Lit. Compan. 15 Oct. 665/4 ‘Pretty waiter-girls’ are known in St. Louis as ‘beer-jerkers’.

1874 Evening Telegram (N.Y.) 13 Feb. 3/1 Beer drinking is quite a different business. It requires..a few waiters to serve the beer at the tables, and a ‘jerker’, whose business it is to fill the glasses in such a way as to make the keg hold out the longest on his side of the account.

1916 Southern Pharmaceut. Jrnl. Jan. 20/2 Talk about women never being on time. Why, the average jerker of soda has the woman beat a mile.

1921 Van Buren (Indiana) News-Eagle 2 June 8/2 He started out as fizze jerker, then a naval student, a Honkey on the railroad [etc.].

1941 N.Y. Herald Tribune 12 Aug. 22/6 The soda lingo, we learn, is authentic, picked up from campus fountain jerkers, an earful to the uninitiated!

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	jerker
释义	jerkern. Brit. /ˈdʒəːkə/, U.S. /ˈdʒərkər/ Forms: see jerk v.¹ and -er suffix¹; also 1700s jerquer. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: jerk v.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < jerk v.¹ + -er suffix¹.In sense 4 so called with reference to the sudden rapid movements characteristic of this fish. With sense 5 compare slightly later jerk v.¹ 8. †1. A person who wields a whip, switch, or rod; a person who whips or lashes another. Cf. jerk v.¹ 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who scourges or whips whipper1552 jerker1565 scourger1580 lasher1611 firkera1626 whipster1670 yarker1677 bone-polisher1803 horsewhipper1808 flagellator1824 thong-man1876 sjambokker1953 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Tintinnáculus, he that maketh a ryngyng: he that beateth a transgressour with roddes: a ierker. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. R4 Yea Madam Gabriela, are you such an old ierker. 1651 T. triplett in J. Smith Loves Hero & Leander 54 Take heed..Lest you taste of his Lash; For I have found him a Jerker [1719 Jirker]. 1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue IV. ix. 139 This Baboon, bare-arst, Monkey-fac'd Jerker, that was to correct my Rogueship. 2. A person who or thing which jerks, or causes something to jerk (in various senses of the verb).ink-jerker, needle-jerker: see the first element. ΚΠ 1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe ii. sig. C4 Hetherto your dauncers legges bow for-sooth, and Caper, and Ierke, and Firke, and dandle the bodie aboue them, as it were their great childe, though the speciall Ierker bee aboue this place I hope. 1895 St. Andrew's Cross June 223/2 I was in the smaller kind of coach called a ‘jerker’. And the jerks were one long succession of unseatings, disturbings, discomposings and dislocations. 1950 J. Halliday Olympic Weight-Lifting i. 22 Most lifters using this method of cleaning..are comparatively poor jerkers. 2004 Afr. Amer. Rev. 38 40/2 Fifty, now there's a hundred streaming past me. Laughers, jerkers, spitters. They crash into the woods. 3. U.S. A person who makes involuntary convulsive or spasmodic movements of the body, as a manifestation of evangelistic religious fervour. Cf. jerk n.¹ 3b. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > convulsionism > [noun] > person > jerking jerker1807 1807 R. McNemar Kentucky Revival iv. 62 Head dresses were of little account among the female jerkers. 1845 S. Judd Margaret i. viii. 48 The jumpers of Wales were outdone by the jerkers of Kentucky. 1889 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 148 Examples of this in America are seen in the ‘Jumpers’, ‘Jerkers’, and various revival extravagances. 1943 New Eng. Q. 16 349 The good people of the Connecticut Valley came to Jesus in a far more orderly fashion than did the ranters and jerkers of Gaspar County, Kentucky. 4. U.S. The hornyhead chub, Nocomis biguttatus, a cyprinid fish found in rivers and streams of North America. Now rare. ΚΠ 1841 Boston Jrnl. Nat. Hist. 3 344 This species bites at the hook with as much energy and as suddenly as the speckled trout, and hence the fishermen and boys have given him the name of Jerker. 1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 212 C[eratichthys] biguttatus..Horny Head; River Chub; Jerker. 1959 V. Evanoff Nat. Baits for Fishermen ii. 27 The Hornyhead Chub (Nocomis biguttatus). Also known as the jerker, this is a heavy-bodied minnow. 5. U.S. colloquial. A person who dispenses drinks, esp. soda or beer, at a soda fountain or bar. Frequently with preceding word, specifying the drink dispensed, as beer jerker; see also soda-jerker n. at soda n.¹ Compounds 3b. Now rare. ΚΠ 1864 Gleason's Lit. Compan. 15 Oct. 665/4 ‘Pretty waiter-girls’ are known in St. Louis as ‘beer-jerkers’. 1874 Evening Telegram (N.Y.) 13 Feb. 3/1 Beer drinking is quite a different business. It requires..a few waiters to serve the beer at the tables, and a ‘jerker’, whose business it is to fill the glasses in such a way as to make the keg hold out the longest on his side of the account. 1916 Southern Pharmaceut. Jrnl. Jan. 20/2 Talk about women never being on time. Why, the average jerker of soda has the woman beat a mile. 1921 Van Buren (Indiana) News-Eagle 2 June 8/2 He started out as fizze jerker, then a naval student, a Honkey on the railroad [etc.]. 1941 N.Y. Herald Tribune 12 Aug. 22/6 The soda lingo, we learn, is authentic, picked up from campus fountain jerkers, an earful to the uninitiated! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1565
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