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Meanings of jerkwater in anglès

Small and remote and insignificant.

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Examples for "poky"
1
She seems to have gone to live in a very poky place.
A Young Mutineer
2
And it was in that poky, cage-like den he breathed his last.
The Centaur
3
There is nothing at all to do, but to take poky walks.
The Gate of the Giant Scissors
4
I'd rather have any ugly, poky old den that was next door.
Mary Olivier: a Life
5
Says they 're wofully old-fashioned and poky,-looklike Canadians and poor folks.
Homes and How to Make Them
1
Reality: Your accommodation is too pokey to accommodate even a small, portable braai.
The South African
2
Yes, a few mostly in pokey places, yet they are useful.
London's Underworld
3
There's a distinctly hokey pokey look to this photograph from 1988.
The Irish Times
4
A kiwi, a silver fern, a scoop of hokey pokey ice-cream, Lion Brown.
Radio NZ
5
How could you have lived in that pokey place so long?
Kate's Ordeal
1
The second cab followed the one-horse coupe in which Muller was seated.
The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow
2
Living in a one-horse town is great, if you own the horse.
Wired
3
Just another one-horse town where they roll up the sidewalks at nine.
Salem’s Lot
4
On Finchley Common the traveller met a clergyman driving a one-horse chaise.
A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals
5
On Monday we packed a one-horse van with what we deemed essential.
They and I
Usage of jerkwater in anglès
1
I wondered why a sexy high-top like you would work this jerkwater!
Midnight at the well of souls
2
Not Moe or anybody else in this jerkwater town.
One night stands & lost weekends
3
Somebody had found the damned thing, and now they knew they had me pinned down in this jerkwater town.
Man on the run
4
He'd make more dough if he owned the local garage and dealer franchise for one of the automobile companies in some jerkwater town.
The Common Man
5
Compared to this Vegas was nothing more than its origin: a small jerkwater nothing of a place hunkering at the edge of the desert.
A quiet vendetta
6
'I couldn't think of it, my dear madam; it's too easy; it's like pulling jerkwater passenger- Ilikethrough freight.'
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