jerkwater

jerkwater

adj.

[from jerk + water, a place where it is necessary to draw (jerk) water to supply the boiler of a steam engine.]

small and remote and insignificant; as, a jerkwater college.
Off the main railroad line. (Railroads) [Archaic]

Syn. -- one-horse, pokey, poky.

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