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A jerkin is a short jacket from the past. It covered the body — chest and back — but not the arms. Often it had no sleeves, and a man wore it over a shirt. Leather jerkins were common in Europe several hundred years ago. You will see the word in history books, old plays, and museums, not on a shop sign for clothes you buy today. Though actually, later writers sometimes stretched jerkin to other short, close jackets; the heart of the idea is still a short jacket for the body, with little or no sleeve. It has nothing to do with a rude “jerk,” or with jerky movement, or with dried meat.
無袖短上衣（舊時男裝）
組成First written in English in the early 1500s. It may be related to Dutch jurk (“dress”), but that Dutch word itself is later and of unknown origin. A link to Old French jo(u)rne (“day”) has been suggested. None of this is certain.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
jerkinnoun詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒɜː.kɪn/
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historicalA type of men's garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fitting collarless jacket, with or without sleeves.
- [T]wenty yeomen, two and two, / In hosen black, and jerkins blue, / With falcons broider'd on each breast, / Attended on their lord's behest.
- [T]he people all wore hosen and shoon and smocks and jupes and jerkins and wimples.
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A sleeveless jacket, usually leather; a long waistcoat.
- A tall and very good-looking kid in a jerkin came out of the store and rode the coupé off around the corner and came back walking, his glistening black hair plastered with rain.
- I booked a room at the small hotel and deposited my luggage there. I bought myself strong boots, a pair of breeches, a jerkin, and a couple of shirts. Then I turned my back upon the town and climbed.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。