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jerking

noun as in foolish person

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Adam tearfully watching is the misty-eyed cherry on this satisfyingly tear-jerking sundae.

“Everyone tonight has done an excellent job of jerking off into the darkness,” he said.

"You're not jerking off to Warren Beatty anymore," he tells me.

I thought I had made good, but here they were jerking the floor out from under me, and I couldn't make any sense out of it.

Behind him, a lobby lounger moved over to the elevator boy, jerking his chin in Wilson Lamb's direction as he asked a question.

"I jest wanted to ask if you found anything up there," said Bill, jerking his thumb toward the road over which he had just ridden.

“Brook makes a pool sometimes down yander,” he replied, jerking his thumb.

"He's the feller hired to fight," observed the shadowy Billy, jerking his thumb backward.

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On this page you'll find 51 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to jerking, such as: blockhead, dolt, dunce, fool, idiot, and imbecile.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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