What does jerkwater mean?
Jerkwater means (US, historical) A train on a branch line..
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/ˈd͡ʒɚk.wɔ.tɚ/ · noun
(US, historical) A train on a branch line..
[…] by bailing from near streams with buckets, (the brake-man called this operation jerking water) and from this the road gets its name of jerkwater road.
Twenty-five miles down the narrow arid highway, there is another town like Napoleon, a little smaller. And then twenty-five miles further, another. This chain of jerkwaters stretches for a lazy afternoon, until you finally encounter a cluster of people that almost resembles a modern civilization, with a movie theater and chain restaurants.
Use jerkwater when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Jerkwater means (US, historical) A train on a branch line..
Common synonyms include See: Thesaurus:remote place, provincial, pokey, poky.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] by bailing from near streams with buckets, (the brake-man called this operation jerking water) and from this the road gets its name of jerkwater road.
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