jerk water
jerk water · more jerk water · most jerk water
Of inhabited places, small, insignificant, isolated, backwardsOf inhabited places, small, insignificant, isolated, backwards
Meaning
1 senses(US, colloquial, derogatory)Of inhabited places, small, insignificant, isolated, backwards
c. 1920, Ring Lardner, The Real Dope But any way from the number of jerk water burgs we went through you would think we was on the Monon and the towns all looks so much like the other that […].
Forms
more jerk water, most jerk water| Comparative | more jerk water Lesson |
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| Superlative | most jerk water Lesson |
regular
Lessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.