Jerkwater

Definition: Jerkwater

Jerkwater

Adjective

1. Small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Jerkwater

Crosswords: Jerkwater

Books

• Jerkwater Freight (reference)

• Longarm and the Jerkwater Bustout (Longarm, No 194) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "jerkwater": jerkwater town ♦ jerkwater train. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

затънтено градче, бавен местен влак. (various references)

Hungarian

vicinális (short train, vicinal), pitiáner, piti (petty, small-time, to piddle), mucsai (bushwhacker, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, jay), kisstílű, jelentéktelen (baubling, dinkey, dinky, exiguous, fiddle-faddle, footling, frivolous, futile, inappreciable, inconsiderable, insignificant, irrelevant, light, minor, minor details, negligible, niggling, nugatory, null, obscure, of no great importance, of no moment, paltry, petty, piddling, scrubby, slight, small time, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, unimportant, venial). (various references)

Pig Latin

erkwaterjay.(various references)

Swedish

provinsiell (parochial, provincial), betydelselös (importless, inconsequent, inconsequential, insignificant, of no importance, straw, unimportant). (various references)

Turkish

ucuz tren (jerkwater train), taşra (back country, backwoods, boondocks, bush league, country, freshwater, jerkwater town, outback, provincial, the provinces, upcountry, upstate), değersiz (cheap, despicable, footling, inferior, insignificant, measly, milk and water, no-account, nonvalent, non-valent, nugatory, of no worth, paltry, pitiable, punk, rubbishy, shoddy, tinpot, trashy, trivial, trumpery, two bit, valueless, vile, worthless), adi (abject, base, camp, campy, cheap jack, chintzy, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, everyday, groveling, grovelling, gutter, hackneyed, little, low, low class, mean, measly, no class, one horse, ordinary, ornery, picayune, picayunish, poky, rubbishy, shoddy, slavish, sleazy, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, vile, vulgar, wormy, yellow dog), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tầm thường (characterless, fiddle-faddle, fiddling, inconsequential, picayune, platitudinarian, platitudinous, poor, prosy, soulless, straw, trivial, unideal, uninsprired), không quan trọng (here, insignificant, minor, trifling, unimportant). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: retaker, waterer, wreaker.

-3 letters: jerker, krater, retake, retear, rewake, tearer, terrae, weaker, wearer.

-4 letters: arete, eater, rakee, raker, rater, rawer, rewet, taker, tarre, tawer, terra, tweak, waker, water, wreak.

-5 letters: ajee, akee, awee, ewer, jake, jeer, jerk, jete, kart, keet, rake, rare, rate, rear, reek, rete, take, tare, teak, tear, tree, trek, twae, twee.