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JERKWATER Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. remote and unimportant; jerkwater towns. 2. trivial. Did you know? We owe the colorful Americanism "jerkwater" to the invention of the steam engine.
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JERKWATER | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
JERKWATER meaning: 1. used to describe a place that is small, not important, and a long way from other places: 2…. Learn more.
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Why is a hick town a “jerkwater”? - The Grammarphobia Blog
The term “jerkwater” was originally an adjective that described a stagecoach, train, or other conveyance serving a remote provincial area.
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jerkwater
jerkwater U.S. (ˈdʒɜːkˌwɔːtə(r)) [f. jerk v.1] In full, jerkwater train. A train on a branch railway (see quot. 1945). Also attrib.1878 F. H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 16, I wish I may be run over by a two-horse jerk-water if there was a sage-hen in sight. 1905 Dialect Notes III. 84 The St. Paul branc...
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Jerkwater - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
characteristic of the provinces or their people. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. MLA; APA; Chicago. "Jerkwater." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, ...
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JERKWATER Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words
Synonyms for JERKWATER: one-horse, unimportant, small-fry, trifling, trivial, small, insignificant, incidental; Antonyms of JERKWATER: major, important, ...
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Pennsylvania Route 915
The route winds northwest through more forests, passing through Sandy Run and Jerkwater.
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jerkwater, adj. & n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
OED's earliest evidence for jerkwater is from 1852, in Miami County (Indiana) Sentinel. jerkwater is apparently formed within English, by derivation.
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jerkwater - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also: jerk-water and jerk water. Contents. 1 English. 1.1 Etymology ... Adjective. edit. jerkwater (comparative more jerkwater, superlative most jerkwater).
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Jerkwater Is a Word That Means Something You Might Not Think It ...
Boilermen would have to jerk water up from low-lying basins in buckets. Such were the middle-of-nowhere jerkwaters of the Monon Railroad. Only ...
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JERKWATER definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
1. informal. insignificant and out-of-the-way. a jerkwater town · 2. old-fashioned. off the main line. a jerkwater train. noun · 3. old-fashioned.
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sin-bin
sin-bin, v. orig. Austral. Brit. /ˈsɪn bɪn/, U.S. /ˈsɪn ˌbɪn/ [‹ sin-bin n. at sin n.1 Compounds 3.] trans. To send (a person) away as a punishment; to banish; (Sport) to send (a player) off the field (usually for a specified period of time). Usu. in pass.1983 National Times (Sydney) 1 July 14/3 Whi...
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John Marley
He was cast as George Campbell in the 1961 episode "Jerkwater" of the series The Rebel, starring Nick Adams.
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jerk
▪ I. jerk, n.1 (dʒɜːk) Also 6–7 ierke, girke, 7–9 jirk. [Jerk n. and vb. are known from c 1550; app. echoic. See also yerk, which in some senses appears to be synonymous with this.] † 1. a. A stroke with a whip or wand, a stripe, a lash. Obs.1555 W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. xi. 256 To the manne.....
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Suffer This: A Compilation of Boston's Backwash
The sixth band listed—Jerkwater—was convened for this record, and was a super-group of sorts featuring members of Hullabaloo, Feeding Frenzy, Bim Skala Gonson - Photography
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JJ - Love & Laughter
Claudia Gonson - Backing V.
TQ - Piano
slüggbutt - G.
Tricka Lye - B.
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