jerk·wa·ter (jûrk wô t r, -w tr)adj. Informal 1. Remote, small, and insignificant: a jerkwater town. 2. Contemptibly trivial: jerkwater notions. [From jerkwater, a branch-line train, so called because its small boiler had to be refilled often, requiring train crews to "jerk" or draw water from streams.] |
jerkwater [ˈdʒɜːkˌwɔːtə]
adj
US and Canadian slang inferior and insignificant a jerkwater town
[originally referring to railway locomotives for which water was taken on in buckets from streams along the route]
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| Adj. | 1. | jerkwater - small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns" provincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes" |
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jerkwater
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