jerking
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jerking
- present participle and gerund of jerk
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jerking (plural jerkings)
- A motion that jerks; a jerk.
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
- The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology).