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Jerkwater

adjective
1.
Small and remote and insignificant.  Synonyms: one-horse, pokey, poky.  "Passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"






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... aside their literary work on the great train book, entitled "The Jerkwater Bank Robbery and other Choice Crimes," by the author of "How I Traced a Lame Man through Michigan and other Felonies." They grappled with the cipher, and several of them leaned up against something and thought for a long time, but they could make neither ...
— Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) • Bill Nye



Words linked to "Jerkwater" :   provincial, pokey



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