When she saw she was wrong, she pulled herself up with a jerk and said so. I want you to realize what that means.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— an annoyingly stupid or foolish person
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Macmillan
— to move very suddenly, or to make something move suddenly
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Collins
— If you jerk something or someone in a particular direction, or they jerk in a particular direction, they move a short distance very suddenly and quickly.
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Other Word Forms
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Usage
1 use of ‘jerk’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster