different between fidgety vs jerky

English

Etymology

From fidget +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?d??ti/

Adjective

fidgety (comparative fidgetier, superlative fidgetiest)

1. Having, or pertaining to, a tendency to fidget; restless.
   • 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xiii:

     I did not feel sea-sick at all. But as the days passed, I became fidgety. I felt shy even in speaking to the steward. […]

   • 1999, Laurie Waldstein, Leslie Zinberg, The Pink and Blue Toddler and Preschooler Pages

     A fidgety child can easily knock over the drink and burn the two of you.

Synonyms

• antsy, fretful, itchy

Derived terms

• fidgetily
• fidgetiness

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??ki/
• Rhymes: -??(r)ki

Etymology 1

jerk +? -y

Adjective

jerky (comparative jerkier, superlative jerkiest)

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish charqui, from Quechua ch'arki.

Noun

jerky (countable and uncountable, plural jerkies)

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

Derived terms

• jerk
• jerked beef
• jerked meat

Translations

See also

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

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• (preserve meat by drying): jerk