one-horse

one-horse (w

hôrs

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adj.

1. Drawn by or using only one horse: a one-horse carriage.

2. Very small or insignificant: a one-horse town.

one-horse

adj

1. drawn by or using one horse

2. (prenominal) Informal small or obscure a one-horse town

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Adj.

one-horse - small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"

jerkwater, pokey, poky

provincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"

one-horse

adjective (Informal) small (only used to describe towns) slow, quiet, minor, obscure, sleepy, unimportant, small-time (informal), backwoods, tinpot (Brit. informal) I don't want to live in a small, one-horse town all my life.

Translations

one-horse [ˈwʌnˈhɔːs] ADJ

1. [carriage] → de un solo caballo

2. → insignificante, de poca monta
one-horse town → pueblucho m

3. a one-horse race (fig) → una contienda en la que no hay color, un paseo triunfal

one-horse [ˈwʌnˌhɔːs] adj one-horse town (fam) → piccola città di provincia

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Bugginess
buggy
cabriolet
cariole
carryall
chaise
Dennet
dogcart
gig
hansom
horse-drawn vehicle
horsebox
insignificance
jaunting car
jaunty car
jerkwater
locality
pokey
poky

Pa, he 'lowed he'd break up and go down and live with Uncle Ben, who's got a little one-horse place on the river, forty-four mile below Orleans.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context

It is said that a stranger took a one-horse carriage for a course-- tariff, half a franc.

The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context

We will start, if you please, in the railway--we will proceed in a one-horse chaise--and we will stop at a village, situated in a hole.

I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context

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One-in-a-Thousand Society
One-Key CBC Mac
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One-Leg Standing Balance Test
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One-Legged Stance Test
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