Local English word record

jerkwater

adjective · 1 sense

small and remote and insignificant

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Examples

  • a jerkwater college
  • passed a series of poky little one-horse towns

Word relationships

Synonyms

one-horse, pokey, poky

Source and method

This page uses the locally materialized K5English vocabulary cohort. WordNet, where present, is enrichment only and does not determine K-5 admission.

Princeton WordNet 3.0