yerkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /jɜː(ɹ)k/
  • 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)k

動詞

yerk (三人称単数 現在形 yerks, 現在分詞 yerking, 過去形および過去分詞形 yerked)

1. (transitive, archaic) To stab (someone または something).
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 6:

     To doe no contriu'd mur[t]her; I lacke iniquity / Sometimes to do me ſeruice: nine or ten times, / I had thought to haue ierk'd him here, / Vnder the ribbes.

2. To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:

     Their wounded steeds […] / Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters.

   • 1627, Michaell Drayton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “The Moone-calfe”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for VVilliam Lee, […], published 1631, →OCLC, page 242:

     Vp on a ſuddaine they together ſtart, / And driue at him as faſt as they could ding, / They flirt, they yerke, they backvvard fluce, and fling / As though the Deuill in their heeles had bin, / That to eſcape the danger he vvas in.

3. (obsolete, Scotland) To strike or lash with a whip or stick.
4. (obsolete, Scotland) To rouse or excite.
5. To bind or tie with a jerk.

名詞

yerk (複数形 yerks)

1. (archaic) A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Veracity. His Design in Publishing this Work. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 345:

     Imagine twenty thouſand of them breaking into the midſt of an European Army, confounding the Ranks, overturning the Carriages, battering the Warriors Faces into Mummy, by terrible Yerks from their hinder Hoofs.

アナグラム

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