Definitions for yerks

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yerks yerk

Spelling: [yurk]

IPA: /yɜrk/

Yerks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in yerks (ekrsy).

Definitions for yerks

noun

1. a kick or jerk.
2. a thud or blow, as from a stick.

verb (used with object)

1. to strike or whip.
2. to stir up; arouse; excite.
3. to jerk.
4. to move (a part of one's body) with a jerk.
5. to pull (stitches) tight or bind tightly.

verb (used without object)

1. to kick.
2. to rise suddenly.
3. to enter into something eagerly.

Origin of yerks

1400-50; late Middle English

Examples for yerks

But Whiffle never could acquit yerk of having been, directly or indirectly, the cause of his suffering from the impure shower.

But an I get the first yerk of a chield, I'm no unco feared for his return.

George bit his lip, scratched his head with the awl, and gave the lingles such a yerk, that he made them both crack in two.