The word "jerky" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe jerky which is a type of dried meat, as in: I bought some beef jerky at the store.
But beyond that, six months into its existence, it has little else to celebrate.Since the bloodshed of January and February, the economy's progress has been jerky.
Apart from the dismal size of the picture, at 20 frames per second the resolution is low and the image is jerky.
Fast motion, like a tennis serve, is no longer jerky.
For long training outings sometimes I'll take bit of beef jerky with me.
Mr Cumings writes marvellously about the "herky- jerky movement" and the telescoping of change in the state.
Its six Democratic and six Republican members, drawn equally from the Senate and House of Representatives, by most accounts got along swimmingly, at various times watching football, cycling, singing "Happy Birthday" and eating beef jerky together.Conflicting explanations for the failure of the committee, which met in private, have emerged, but the main stumbling block, as usual, was taxes.
Budaixi puppets feature the wooden expressions and jerky movements of early TV animations, but the characters, costumes and plots draw on ancient Chinese sources, with a heavy dose of martial arts and special effects.
But investors like certainty, not the murky, jerky decision-making that typifies Romanian politics.They would also like more deregulation, much-promised but seldom delivered.
The picture can then become jerky or freeze as the video player stumbles across the patch of corrupted data.In an act of desperation, your correspondent once used toothpaste to rub out deep gouges on a Laser Disc.
He is still (despite his jerky dancing at the Democratic convention) perceived as wooden and humourless.
It suggests sending turkey jerky, which is light, cheap to mail and doesn't spoil even if delayed for weeks in a post office in Kabul.Even if a care package never arrives, the Pentagon has it covered.
