"Jerk” Now Defined in Dictionary
(Rec. 1 p.m.) . NEW YORK, April 22.
Mr. Charles Funk, the editor of Funk and Wagnail’s Dictionary, announced that the new edition of the dictionary will contain the word “jerk.” He said: “We don’t limit people on word usage. ‘Jerk’ is colourful and descriptive. We are going to use it. Maybe it will offend the purists, but we cannot help it. We don’t make language. We intend defining ‘jerk’ as an unpopular person. Jerk has no gender and doesn’t connote stupidity like ‘dope’.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 April 1946, Page 7
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