[
UK
/dʒˈɜːkɪn/
]
NOUN
- a tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times
How To Use jerkin In A Sentence
- “But at the same time, it is NOT ‘pointless’ to be enthusiastically, tear-jerkingly, unwaveringly ‘proud’ of the ‘land of your birth’ â to the point where people are actually STILL SURPRISED â or even scandalized â when yet another of ‘our’ scandals come to light.” US in Police State Top 10
- Now, I'm not saying that wow is the devil or anything knee-jerkingly reactionist like that (although I * do* have some serious issues with some elements of it: the grind, only having one somewhat flawed model of guild leadership, etc, etc). Becoming Gamer; or "My last ever log out."
- He turns me around, jerking my chin up to look into his dead, black eyes.
- Someone makes a heartfelt, tear-jerking appeal on behalf of the charity, and then up pops some sweaty, half-cut minor-league celebrity who's a mate of someone on the committee.
- Cloaks, sashes, jerkins and gloves lined the very top shelf that went the width of the wardrobe.
- A pize on it! send it off to those who have their legs swathed with a hay-wisp, their heads thatched with a felt bonnet, their jerkin as thin as a cobweb, and their pouch without ever a cross to keep the fiend Melancholy from dancing in it. Kenilworth
- She wore a leather jerkin over a green tunic and cowhide boots.
- From the pouch tied to his jerkin, he pulled forth a small gem.
- Andy called out, jerking his chin upward in the direction of the tall, slender, much sought-after brunette.
- I rolled my eyes jerking my chin from Tunes hands.
