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English
Etymology
From jolt + -ing.
Pronunciation
Adjective
jolting (comparative more jolting, superlative most jolting)
- Causing or characterized by sudden abrupt movements.
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 327:One day while working at an ad agency in Greenville, South Carolina, Jay got this joltin' notion to do a novelty number around the then-hot CB (citizen's band radio) craze.
- Synonym of shocking
Derived terms
Noun
jolting (plural joltings)
- gerund of jolt: an action or movement that jolts.
1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XVI. First Night of Their Arrival in the City.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , →OCLC, section I, pages 312–313:he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road.
Verb
jolting
- present participle and gerund of jolt