Jerkwater definition
Remote, small, and insignificant.
A jerkwater town.
adjective
Contemptibly trivial.
Jerkwater notions.
adjective
(historical) A train on an early branch railroad.
noun
(informal) Being or appropriate to a small, remote, unimportant community or region.
A jerkwater town.
adjective
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
jerkwater
Plural:
jerkwatersOrigin of jerkwater
- 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
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition