Somebody who is so completely self-absorbed, that he intentionally hurts others for his own benefit. Someone that only thinks about themself. It's basically calling someone selfish, but more redundant.
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Hopefully the related words and synonyms for " term " are a little tamer than average. The Urban Thesaurus was created by indexing millions of different slang terms which are defined on sites like Urban Dictionary. A jerk may simply be dull or stupid, not necessarily mean or nasty it's kind of an old-fashioned word; at least I haven't heard it around here very much in recent years.
Prick , as others have said, is a vulgar word and describes a pretty loathsome character. By the way: I have never heard either of these terms applied to females. In my experience, they're used only to describe men. Prick is reserved for men, for obvious reasons. No, not because only men are loathsome characters. Jerk , in my experience can be used to describe women, but it is much more unusual.
My language is, I hate to admit, so outrageously obscene that I might say "She was being a real jerk" just as a way to avoid saying something much more offensive. Slightly OT, but not too far off. All three mean "jerk", and coincidentally also refer to male genitalia, and are most often used by women to refer to men.
I agree with gramman, that you can call a woman a "jerk". We also can call a woman "dude" nowadays. It's an equal opportunity world in regards to name calling. I'm surprised at the suggestion above that jerk is less obscene than prick. I don't see that it's more obscene to use a slang word for the male part than one for self-abuse. Like many obscene slang words indicating disapproval, these two vary in intensity and overtones with region, social class, and age group.
I can only speak for the fairly antique, who don't use either of these words much, but who used to do so in the s: for me both words are suggestive of insensitivity, or, at its worst of crass selfishness. Jerk is milder, less offensive. Prick is more suggestive of active meanness, which makes it a more powerful insult. I've never heard either word used of a woman, though one shouldn't assume that anatomical inappropriateness is a bar to such use: I had a friend who once called a female parking warden a 'silly bugger'.
She very sensibly chose to feign deafness. Please, but please don't portend that your vernacular is beyond the rest of us, Thomas. I never knew what jerk came from, although it makes sense now. The evolution described in the Online Etymology Dictionary seems a bit more complex. Now I now about wanker as well.
I'm always impressed by Mr. Tompion's knowledge of the language.
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