nerve-jerking

Updated: January 25, 2026

Pale-faced, spindly-legged, nerve-jerking young fellows thet has spent ther fust twenty years gittin' larnin', an' ther next twenty gittin' over hit. Me an' Sal will keep to the open!" But Sally was not so confident.

Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice - Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories