What's the difference between dickhead and jerk?

Dickhead


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Everyone: What kind of dickhead made him Tory party treasurer?
  • (2) But we should not allow the justice system alone to clearly delineate for us what makes a rapist and what makes, let’s say, a garden-variety dickhead.
  • (3) Despite sitting for 50 hours of taped interviews – scarcely credible, I know, given the drivel that follows – Julian decided there was no point in making himself look like an unstable, megalomaniac dickhead as his entire advance had been pocketed by his lawyers.
  • (4) Cameron: The same kind of dickhead that chose Andy Coulson to be my press officer.
  • (5) BBC presenter calls boxer Tyson Fury 'dickhead' on live TV Read more The corporation insists that the nominations for Spoty were made by an independent panel whose members included Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Baroness Sue Campbell, Jermaine Jenas and representatives from the national media.
  • (6) It’s like, ‘Well, you’re a dickhead.’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hysteria surrounding the Edinburgh fringe, where she took the show this year, only exacerbates her usual state.
  • (7) Khuilo is a Russian swearword that approximately translates as "fucker" or "dickhead".
  • (8) But pro-Ukrainian activists and members of the local football ultras, who along with Kharkov ultras originated the "Putin is a dickhead" song that has since become a nationwide cultural meme, have been fleeing for their own safety.
  • (9) "There was an unofficial biography of JK Rowling, and the writer referred to my dad, who was an actor when he was young, as an 'unremarkable actor' and I'm like, you've never seen him act, dickhead, you're basing that on nothing."
  • (10) Myrie looked at his watch, decided it was after the watershed and said: “You cannot be a dickhead and win the Sports Personality of the Year”.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The BBC’s Clive Myrie says Fury ‘cannot be a dickhead and win the Sports Personality of the Year’ The BBC apologised on Tuesday after the presenter Clive Myrie described Fury as a “dickhead” during a live TV newspaper review on Monday night.
  • (12) It does my surly wee dickhead credentials no favours to acknowledge the void David Attenborough will one day leave, but maybe it won’t be so bad.
  • (13) But radio-host-cum-dickhead Rush Limbaugh spent much of his next show mocking Fox's movements.
  • (14) Fury has been criticised since a November interview with the Mail On Sunday in which he said: “There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the devil comes home: one of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other one’s paedophilia.” BBC presenter calls boxer Tyson Fury 'dickhead' on live TV Read more The heavyweight has also been accused of sexism after a YouTube video emerged of him saying Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill “slaps up good”, before adding: “A woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back – that’s my personal belief.” The BBC has so far refused to remove Fury from the 12-person Sports Personality of the Year shortlist, with the winner of the award set to be announced on 20 December.
  • (15) Updated at 10.27pm GMT 10.08pm GMT Hunter Felt (@HunterFelt) @tomlangford7 @LengelDavid I think @Mobute said it best: "Philip Rivers is kind of a transcendental dickhead."
  • (16) Will Self sent the internet into tailspin on Tuesday with his takedown of “talentless hipsters”, more neatly referred to as “the dickheads”.
  • (17) Well, he’s a fucking dickhead, isn’t he?” the filth-monster himself responds when I tell him of his onscreen son’s verdict.
  • (18) Campaign strategies this time around have included an acrostic poem attacking a local Fairfax Regional paper, the Mandurah Mail, for being “Malicious Asshole Nutcases Dickheads” (it goes on, but we won’t).
  • (19) Russia said it would have no further dealings with Ukraine's foreign minister, Andriy Deshchytsia, after he was caught on camera over the weekend telling the crowds outside the Russian embassy that Putin was a "dickhead".
  • (20) Of course, I don't really think this is going to stop fashion obsessives from dressing like idiots any more than the similarly themed 2010 video Being a Dickhead's Cool did.

Jerk


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.
  • (v. t.) To beat; to strike.
  • (v. t.) To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.
  • (v. t.) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.
  • (v. i.) To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.
  • (v. i.) To flout with contempt.
  • (n.) A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.
  • (n.) A sudden start or spring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
  • (2) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
  • (3) In reflex-induced jerks this negative transient could be recognized as a component of the sensory evoked potential.
  • (4) A dynamic optimization technique to minimize jerk cost under the constraint on jerk input was applied to interpret the results, assuming that a major goal of skilled movements was to produce optimally smooth movements.
  • (5) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
  • (6) Results from animal experiments and neuropathological studies suggest that the abolition of jerks in such cases is probably due to loss of facilitating influences from the cerebral cortex and central grey nuclei.
  • (7) Surgery caused or aggravated unilaterally diminished knee or ankle jerks in 3% and 10% of cases, respectively.
  • (8) This is a gladiatorial display – that is what people go to see.” Bray added: “The popular knee-jerk reaction will be we should ban airshows, but it’s very rare for such a crash to take place.
  • (9) High-frequency trading may or may not distort markets, but surely a knee-jerk reaction by banning it is not the answer.
  • (10) In order to overcome various drawbacks of the conventional polygraphic study of a relationship between myoclonus and EEG, the EEG preceding and following the myoclonic jerk was simultaneously averaged by the CNV program.
  • (11) Compared with the myoclonic-serotonergic syndrome evoked by 5-hydroxytryptophan in rats with 5.7-dihydroxytryptamine lesions, harmaline+5-hydroxytryptophan-treated rats displayed more continuous and greater axial myoclonic jerks and some postural differences.
  • (12) The effects of electrical stimulation and microinjection of sodium glutamate (0.5 M) in the sympathetic pressor areas of the dorsal medulla (DM), ventrolateral medulla (VLM), and parvocellular nucleus (PVC) on the knee jerk, crossed extension, and evoked potential of the L5 ventral root produced by intermittent electrical stimulation were studied in 98 adult cats anesthetized with chloralose and urethane.
  • (13) The knee jerk itself is seen as a "physiological artefact," resulting from a mode of stimulation that does not occur in life, with the normal function of its underlying circuitry still under debate.
  • (14) The patients did not significantly differ from controls on catch-up saccade amplitude, square wave jerk rate, or anticipatory saccade rate.
  • (15) It was confirmed that the technique of jerk-locked averaging with a backward averaging program was useful for detecting cortical spikes in association with the spontaneously occurring myoclonus, which are not recognized on the convential polygraph, and for evaluating the temporal and topographical relationship between the spike and the myoclonus.
  • (16) The typical electrophysiological correlates of myoclonus in Alzheimer's disease are similar to those of cortical reflex myoclonus, with a focal, contralateral negativity in the EEG preceding the myoclonic jerk.
  • (17) The analgesic effect of morphine in the rat tail jerk assay was enhanced by the serotonin uptake inhibitor, fluoxetine.
  • (18) In focal epileptic status, the single dose stopped paroxysmal activity and the associated clonic jerks for a few seconds.
  • (19) The occurrence of horizontal jerks with larger amplitudes than on Earth was observed during vertical optokinetic nystagmus in astronauts tested throughout a 7-day spaceflight.
  • (20) Only one patient felt his knee to be unstable (he had a positive pivot jerk).

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