What's the difference between jerkin and merkin?

Jerkin


Definition:

  • (n.) A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.
  • (n.) A male gyrfalcon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
  • (2) The degree of protection afforded by three jerkin G-suit systems (British, Canadian and Swedish) using different pressures against the adverse physiological effects produced by high levels (50 mm Hg and 70 mm Hg) of positive pressure breathing (PPB) was investigated at ground level in 10 male subjects.
  • (3) Get in the formation, let’s start triangle jerkin’ Included in the list mostly because it rhymes “merkin” with “triangle jerkin”, this song began as a joke to be played only once in Australia (in Aussie slang, “map of Tasmania” is a euphemism for female pubic hair) and is Amanda’s statement for freedom of expression via pubic hair .
  • (4) January 14, 2016 Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) The Oscars are gonna be so white that Chris Rock is gonna have to walk through the back door of the venue, like the olden days.
  • (5) Respiration was recorded using a jerkin plethysmograph.
  • (6) Like a children's story, all the Drax staff had to wear bright red jerkins.
  • (7) R&B isn't quite as staggeringly strange and futuristic as it seemed at the start of the noughties: in perhaps the decade's solitary example of genuinely odd and innovative music that wasn't by Radiohead finding a mass audience, producers Timbaland, the Neptunes and Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins competed to see who could make the weirdest-sounding No 1 single.
  • (8) Black women on magazine covers in September showcase our greatness | Morgan Jerkins Read more Take Hunger Games actress Amandla Stenberg, who published a video on cultural appropriation that went viral and has pushed back against racist stereotypes .

Merkin


Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, a wig; afterwards, a mop for cleaning cannon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Get in the formation, let’s start triangle jerkin’ Included in the list mostly because it rhymes “merkin” with “triangle jerkin”, this song began as a joke to be played only once in Australia (in Aussie slang, “map of Tasmania” is a euphemism for female pubic hair) and is Amanda’s statement for freedom of expression via pubic hair .
  • (2) Only 28.3% of the Salantai inhabitants and 25.5% of the Merkine inhabitants knew their arterial pressure, 74.8% and 79.3% respectively knew their height and body mass.
  • (3) How many more will die before we can stop it?” Jandali will be performing live at Merkin Concert Hall, Kauffman Center in New York City on Saturday 26 October.
  • (4) During examination of the adult population of two rural communities: 1558 inhabitants of a settlement of Salantai and 1713 inhabitants of a settlement of Merkine their arterial pressure was measured and they were interviewed.
  • (5) 8.47pm BST This is the hairy bit, says Glenn, affixing a large shredded wheat merkin to the front of his construction.
  • (6) While Diaz was making her new hairy allegiances public, clothing label American Apparel filled its New York shop windows with be-merkined mannequins in sheer undies.

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