jerkwater
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈdʒɚk.wɔ.tɚ/
jerkwater (plural jerkwaters)
- (US, historical) A train on a branch line.
- 1975, Indiana Historical Society, Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 71, no. 1 (Mar. 1975), page 355
- […] by bailing from near streams with buckets, (the brake-man called this operation jerking water) and from this the road gets its name of jerkwater road.
- 1975, Indiana Historical Society, Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 71, no. 1 (Mar. 1975), page 355
jerkwater
- (US, colloquial, pejorative) Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, and backward.
- Russian: ма́ленький
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