jerky

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɝki/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)ki

jerk +‎ -y

jerky (comparative jerkier, superlative jerkiest)

1. Characterized by physical jerking.
2. Having the behavior of a jerk (unpleasant person).

Borrowed from Spanish charqui, from Quechua ch'arki.

jerky (countable and uncountable, plural jerkies)

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

• jerk
• jerked beef
• jerked meat

• biltong
• Quechuan chunyu (freeze-dried potatoes)
• pemmican, pemican
• smoked meat
• smoker

jerky (third-person singular simple present jerkies, present participle jerkying, simple past and past participle jerkied)

1. (transitive) To cure and preserve (meat) by drying it, making jerky.

• (preserve meat by drying): jerk