Definition of herky-jerky in English:

herky-jerky

adjectiveˈhəːkɪˌdʒəːkiˌhərkiˈdʒərki

North American informal

Characterized by or moving in sudden stops and starts.
〈北美，非正式〉忽动忽停的
herky-jerky black and white newsreels
跳跳停停的黑白新闻影片。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was a little herky-jerky, but I've ridden with Jack before, and he was kind of the same way.
- It's a staccato language of enigmatic hand gestures, flailing arms, touching oneself, herky-jerky starts and stops, plunging into space, crashing, spinning, jumping back up.
- His hands shake constantly; throw in his current addictions to coffee and cigars and you get transport that is, at best, fumbling and herky-jerky, at worst, upside down in a ditch, surrounded by flashing lights.
- As he gets down across the half court and approaches the top of the key he begins to go into a series of herky-jerky dribble moves probably either palming and or caring the ball a good half dozen times during his routine.
- The trade-off for a short running length is a herky-jerky narrative that rarely moves smoothly.
- The asymmetrical rhythms, shifting time signatures and registers, and the once-again intense chromatics jar us back to the herky-jerky puppets as they summon their ersatz dance skills.
- After a rather stunning and disturbing opening sequence, Lumumba really gets going with a disconcertingly sloppy and herky-jerky sequence of biographical background info on our subject.
- Last night, before bed, I was combing my daughter's hair and she got away from me, running herky-jerky around the coffee table, laughing like the Fourth of July.
- In fact, the sobriety, maturity and patience offered a most happy contrast to the herky-jerky behavior of society's supposedly mature ‘opinion makers.’
- No point guard has as much body control as Payton, able to throw off opponents with his herky-jerky drives forward and sudden stops.
- Norman unleashes torrents of sap, better suited to network TV than to thoughtful cinema, all presented with a herky-jerky camera technique, intended to convey… documentary feel?
- Shot from behind and from the side, Auteuil gives a steely performance, registering the turmoil of this deeply false character in tiny eye movements and through herky-jerky body language.
- Reef managers mediate between the values of developers and the values of conservationists in an ongoing herky-jerky process in which it seems to both sides that they are taking three steps forward and two steps back.
- Deficiency of GABA outflow, e.g., Huntington's disease, is characterized by herky-jerky and extraneous movements.
- The widespread use of overdubbing and the preponderance of drum tracks with herky-jerky tempos and wayward rhythms has become a prominent style in pop and R&B that emphasizes rhythmic agility over vocal expression.
- In Afghanistan, the networks scrambled to equip their war correspondents with satellite video phones that transmitted shaky, often fuzzy and herky-jerky video images along with the voice reports.
- On the mound, Willis relied on a windmill windup with a herky-jerky motion and a puzzling assortment of pitches to set National League hitters on their ears for a couple of months until he ran into a slump in mid-August.
- There is a strange, herky-jerky character to her assault, almost as if we were watching an old, speeded-up silent film, that at once distances us from the action and yet makes it more horrible.
- If people are turning off network television coverage, which at least offers quality sound and images, it's beyond me why an online site would expect to draw an audience with herky-jerky Internet video and intermittent audio.
- His spoken word bit about being on a plane bound for Manila and asking for curried chicken as the pilots lose control is delivered in a series of herky-jerky inflections and with enormous relish.

Origin

1970s: reduplication of jerky.

Rhymes

jerky, mirky, murky, perky, quirky, smirky, turkey

Definition of herky-jerky in US English:

herky-jerky

adjectiveˌhərkiˈdʒərkiˌhərkēˈjərkē

North American informal

Characterized by or moving in sudden stops and starts.
〈北美，非正式〉忽动忽停的
there were no windup toys, no herky-jerky contraptions
Example sentencesExamples
- It's a staccato language of enigmatic hand gestures, flailing arms, touching oneself, herky-jerky starts and stops, plunging into space, crashing, spinning, jumping back up.
- In fact, the sobriety, maturity and patience offered a most happy contrast to the herky-jerky behavior of society's supposedly mature ‘opinion makers.’
- In Afghanistan, the networks scrambled to equip their war correspondents with satellite video phones that transmitted shaky, often fuzzy and herky-jerky video images along with the voice reports.
- His hands shake constantly; throw in his current addictions to coffee and cigars and you get transport that is, at best, fumbling and herky-jerky, at worst, upside down in a ditch, surrounded by flashing lights.
- The trade-off for a short running length is a herky-jerky narrative that rarely moves smoothly.
- No point guard has as much body control as Payton, able to throw off opponents with his herky-jerky drives forward and sudden stops.
- Norman unleashes torrents of sap, better suited to network TV than to thoughtful cinema, all presented with a herky-jerky camera technique, intended to convey… documentary feel?
- Last night, before bed, I was combing my daughter's hair and she got away from me, running herky-jerky around the coffee table, laughing like the Fourth of July.
- If people are turning off network television coverage, which at least offers quality sound and images, it's beyond me why an online site would expect to draw an audience with herky-jerky Internet video and intermittent audio.
- Shot from behind and from the side, Auteuil gives a steely performance, registering the turmoil of this deeply false character in tiny eye movements and through herky-jerky body language.
- His spoken word bit about being on a plane bound for Manila and asking for curried chicken as the pilots lose control is delivered in a series of herky-jerky inflections and with enormous relish.
- Reef managers mediate between the values of developers and the values of conservationists in an ongoing herky-jerky process in which it seems to both sides that they are taking three steps forward and two steps back.
- Deficiency of GABA outflow, e.g., Huntington's disease, is characterized by herky-jerky and extraneous movements.
- There is a strange, herky-jerky character to her assault, almost as if we were watching an old, speeded-up silent film, that at once distances us from the action and yet makes it more horrible.
- It was a little herky-jerky, but I've ridden with Jack before, and he was kind of the same way.
- As he gets down across the half court and approaches the top of the key he begins to go into a series of herky-jerky dribble moves probably either palming and or caring the ball a good half dozen times during his routine.
- The asymmetrical rhythms, shifting time signatures and registers, and the once-again intense chromatics jar us back to the herky-jerky puppets as they summon their ersatz dance skills.
- On the mound, Willis relied on a windmill windup with a herky-jerky motion and a puzzling assortment of pitches to set National League hitters on their ears for a couple of months until he ran into a slump in mid-August.
- The widespread use of overdubbing and the preponderance of drum tracks with herky-jerky tempos and wayward rhythms has become a prominent style in pop and R&B that emphasizes rhythmic agility over vocal expression.
- After a rather stunning and disturbing opening sequence, Lumumba really gets going with a disconcertingly sloppy and herky-jerky sequence of biographical background info on our subject.

Origin

1970s: reduplication of jerky.

词汇	herky-jerky
释义	Definition of herky-jerky in English: herky-jerky adjectiveˈhəːkɪˌdʒəːkiˌhərkiˈdʒərki North American informal Characterized by or moving in sudden stops and starts. 〈北美，非正式〉忽动忽停的 herky-jerky black and white newsreels 跳跳停停的黑白新闻影片。 Example sentencesExamples It was a little herky-jerky, but I've ridden with Jack before, and he was kind of the same way. It's a staccato language of enigmatic hand gestures, flailing arms, touching oneself, herky-jerky starts and stops, plunging into space, crashing, spinning, jumping back up. His hands shake constantly; throw in his current addictions to coffee and cigars and you get transport that is, at best, fumbling and herky-jerky, at worst, upside down in a ditch, surrounded by flashing lights. As he gets down across the half court and approaches the top of the key he begins to go into a series of herky-jerky dribble moves probably either palming and or caring the ball a good half dozen times during his routine. The trade-off for a short running length is a herky-jerky narrative that rarely moves smoothly. The asymmetrical rhythms, shifting time signatures and registers, and the once-again intense chromatics jar us back to the herky-jerky puppets as they summon their ersatz dance skills. After a rather stunning and disturbing opening sequence, Lumumba really gets going with a disconcertingly sloppy and herky-jerky sequence of biographical background info on our subject. Last night, before bed, I was combing my daughter's hair and she got away from me, running herky-jerky around the coffee table, laughing like the Fourth of July. In fact, the sobriety, maturity and patience offered a most happy contrast to the herky-jerky behavior of society's supposedly mature ‘opinion makers.’ No point guard has as much body control as Payton, able to throw off opponents with his herky-jerky drives forward and sudden stops. Norman unleashes torrents of sap, better suited to network TV than to thoughtful cinema, all presented with a herky-jerky camera technique, intended to convey… documentary feel? Shot from behind and from the side, Auteuil gives a steely performance, registering the turmoil of this deeply false character in tiny eye movements and through herky-jerky body language. Reef managers mediate between the values of developers and the values of conservationists in an ongoing herky-jerky process in which it seems to both sides that they are taking three steps forward and two steps back. Deficiency of GABA outflow, e.g., Huntington's disease, is characterized by herky-jerky and extraneous movements. The widespread use of overdubbing and the preponderance of drum tracks with herky-jerky tempos and wayward rhythms has become a prominent style in pop and R&B that emphasizes rhythmic agility over vocal expression. In Afghanistan, the networks scrambled to equip their war correspondents with satellite video phones that transmitted shaky, often fuzzy and herky-jerky video images along with the voice reports. On the mound, Willis relied on a windmill windup with a herky-jerky motion and a puzzling assortment of pitches to set National League hitters on their ears for a couple of months until he ran into a slump in mid-August. There is a strange, herky-jerky character to her assault, almost as if we were watching an old, speeded-up silent film, that at once distances us from the action and yet makes it more horrible. If people are turning off network television coverage, which at least offers quality sound and images, it's beyond me why an online site would expect to draw an audience with herky-jerky Internet video and intermittent audio. His spoken word bit about being on a plane bound for Manila and asking for curried chicken as the pilots lose control is delivered in a series of herky-jerky inflections and with enormous relish. Origin 1970s: reduplication of jerky. Rhymes jerky, mirky, murky, perky, quirky, smirky, turkey Definition of herky-jerky in US English: herky-jerky adjectiveˌhərkiˈdʒərkiˌhərkēˈjərkē North American informal Characterized by or moving in sudden stops and starts. 〈北美，非正式〉忽动忽停的 there were no windup toys, no herky-jerky contraptions Example sentencesExamples It's a staccato language of enigmatic hand gestures, flailing arms, touching oneself, herky-jerky starts and stops, plunging into space, crashing, spinning, jumping back up. In fact, the sobriety, maturity and patience offered a most happy contrast to the herky-jerky behavior of society's supposedly mature ‘opinion makers.’ In Afghanistan, the networks scrambled to equip their war correspondents with satellite video phones that transmitted shaky, often fuzzy and herky-jerky video images along with the voice reports. His hands shake constantly; throw in his current addictions to coffee and cigars and you get transport that is, at best, fumbling and herky-jerky, at worst, upside down in a ditch, surrounded by flashing lights. The trade-off for a short running length is a herky-jerky narrative that rarely moves smoothly. No point guard has as much body control as Payton, able to throw off opponents with his herky-jerky drives forward and sudden stops. Norman unleashes torrents of sap, better suited to network TV than to thoughtful cinema, all presented with a herky-jerky camera technique, intended to convey… documentary feel? Last night, before bed, I was combing my daughter's hair and she got away from me, running herky-jerky around the coffee table, laughing like the Fourth of July. If people are turning off network television coverage, which at least offers quality sound and images, it's beyond me why an online site would expect to draw an audience with herky-jerky Internet video and intermittent audio. Shot from behind and from the side, Auteuil gives a steely performance, registering the turmoil of this deeply false character in tiny eye movements and through herky-jerky body language. His spoken word bit about being on a plane bound for Manila and asking for curried chicken as the pilots lose control is delivered in a series of herky-jerky inflections and with enormous relish. Reef managers mediate between the values of developers and the values of conservationists in an ongoing herky-jerky process in which it seems to both sides that they are taking three steps forward and two steps back. Deficiency of GABA outflow, e.g., Huntington's disease, is characterized by herky-jerky and extraneous movements. There is a strange, herky-jerky character to her assault, almost as if we were watching an old, speeded-up silent film, that at once distances us from the action and yet makes it more horrible. It was a little herky-jerky, but I've ridden with Jack before, and he was kind of the same way. As he gets down across the half court and approaches the top of the key he begins to go into a series of herky-jerky dribble moves probably either palming and or caring the ball a good half dozen times during his routine. The asymmetrical rhythms, shifting time signatures and registers, and the once-again intense chromatics jar us back to the herky-jerky puppets as they summon their ersatz dance skills. On the mound, Willis relied on a windmill windup with a herky-jerky motion and a puzzling assortment of pitches to set National League hitters on their ears for a couple of months until he ran into a slump in mid-August. The widespread use of overdubbing and the preponderance of drum tracks with herky-jerky tempos and wayward rhythms has become a prominent style in pop and R&B that emphasizes rhythmic agility over vocal expression. After a rather stunning and disturbing opening sequence, Lumumba really gets going with a disconcertingly sloppy and herky-jerky sequence of biographical background info on our subject. Origin 1970s: reduplication of jerky.
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