JERKILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jerkily mean? 

• JERKILY (adverb)
  The adverb JERKILY has 2 senses:

1. with spasms

2. with jerking motions

  Familiarity information: JERKILY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JERKILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With spasms

Synonyms:

jerkily; spasmodically

Context example:

the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner

Pertainym:

jerky (lacking a steady rhythm)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With jerking motions

Context example:

She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat

 Context examples 

She saw before her only a boy, who was shaking her hand with a hand so calloused that it felt like a nutmeg-grater and rasped her skin, and who was saying jerkily:-

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a shapeless pulp.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)