jerky

nouns

meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

jerk, jerked meat, jerky

lacking a steady rhythm

"an arrhythmic heartbeat"

arrhythmic, jerking, jerky

is derived from

is derived from

marked by abrupt transitions

"choppy prose"

choppy, jerky

having or revealing stupidity

"ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky

is derived from