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JERKWATER

  

     JERK-waw-ter

  • DEFINITION

      Adjective

  

      1: remote and unimportant
      2: trivial
 
Synonyms:

  

one-horse, pokey, poky
provincial
characteristic of the provinces or their people
  • EXAMPLES

"We're stranded in some jerkwater town in the middle of nowhere,"

said Larry when he called to tell us that the car's engine had blown.

"Hardworking and reserved, Jesse might use five words when the

situation called for nine.

 

The son of Mexican immigrants, he was born in the cheerless, jerkwater town of

Firebaugh, Calif., in 1938; facts that undoubtedly contributed

to his abiding humility." — From an article by Scott P.

Charles in the Philadelphia Inquirer, June 12, 2012

  

He'd make more dough if he owned the local garage and dealer franchise for
one of the automobile companies in some jerkwater town.
  
Monte Carlo was just such another jerkwater little place as this is before he hit it.

  

  • DID YOU KNOW?

We owe the colorful Americanism "jerkwater" to the invention of the steam

engine—an advancement that significantly accelerated travel by rail but

 also had its drawbacks. One drawback was that the boilers of the early

 locomotives needed to be refilled with water frequently, and water tanks

were few and far between. As a result, the small trains that ran on rural

branch lines often had to stop to take on water from local supplies.

Such trains were commonly called "jerkwaters" from the motion of jerking

the water up in buckets from the supply to the engine. The derogatory use of "jerkwater"

for things unimportant or trivial reflects the fact that these jerkwater trains typically ran

on lines connecting small middle-of-nowhere towns.

 
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