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jerkdar

noun

Etymology

From jerk + -dar.

  1. inherited from ġearcian — “to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”
  2. derived from ġearc
  3. derived from yerkid — “tightly pulled”
  4. inherited from yerk
  5. suffixed as jerkdar — “jerk + dar”

Definitions

  1. The ability to detect whether or not a person is a jerk.

    • Yeah, he's blipped mine, too. But he's beating the hell out of my Dorkdar® and Jerkdar® so much that I can't get an accurate reading from the Gaydar® -- it's such a *sensitive* instrument, you know.
    • I'm not a big fan of jerks, so it is good they are so easy to identify and to avoid. Your newfound “jerkdar” could be interpreted as a silver lining.
    • Knew it all too well from a couple of jerks she'd dated before her jerkdar had kicked in fully at age twenty.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA