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Meanings of jerkwater in English

Small and remote and insignificant.

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        Examples for "poky"
        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 English
        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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