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jerkwater
jerk·wa·ter J0032400 (jûrk′wô′tər, -wŏt′ər)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) adjslang US and Canadian inferior and insignificant: a jerkwater town. [C19: originally referring to railway locomotives for which water was taken on in buckets from streams along the route]jerk•wa•ter (ˈdʒɜrkˌwɔ tər, -ˌwɒt ər)
adj. insignificant and out-of-the-way: a jerkwater town. [1875–80; so called from the jerking (i.e., drawing) of water to fill buckets for supplying a steam locomotive] Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | jerkwater - small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"one-horse, pokey, pokyprovincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes" |
Translationsjerkwater
jerkwaterDescribing a very small and unremarkable rural town. The term comes from the practice of "jerking water": supplying steam locomotives with water from buckets, once a common practice in smaller towns. I can't wait to graduate high school and get out of this boring, jerkwater town!jerkwater townA very small and unremarkable town that is typically regarded as dull or boring. The term comes from the practice of "jerking water": supplying steam locomotives with water from buckets, once a common practice in smaller towns. I can't wait to graduate high school and get out of this boring, jerkwater town!See also: jerkwater, townjerkwater mod. rural; backwoodsy; insignificant. (see also one-horse town.) I’m from a little jerkwater town in the Midwest. jerkwater townA small community with modest conveniences. Tracks along main lines in the early days of American railroading had permanent towers that supplied water for steam locomotives. Not so along less important routes, so train crews and any other willing hands had to form bucket brigades to fill the boiler from streams and ponds. Filling the buckets was known as “jerking water,” and any small collection of houses, stores, and community buildings where that was done were “jerkwater towns.” The epithet stuck, especially when people from larger towns and cities wanted a snide way of referring to small towns.See also: jerkwater, townjerkwater
Synonyms for jerkwateradj small and remote and insignificantSynonymsRelated Words |