knee-jerk



knee-jerk

mod. automatic; quick and without thought. That was only a knee-jerk response. Pay no attention.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Juliet['dʒu:ljət]
Susumusoo-soo-mooJapanese
Oleksandr-Ukrainian
PetraPET-rah (Finnish), PET-rə (English)German, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Hungarian, Swedish, Finnish, English
Elishebai-LISH-ə-bə (English), ee-LISH-ə-bə (English)Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
EvieEE-vee, EV-eeEnglish