Found 2 items, similar to jerkwater.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: jerkwater jerkwater adj : small and remote and insignificant; “a jerkwater college”; “passed a series of poky little one-horse towns” [syn: one-horse, pokey, poky]
English → English (gcide) Definition: jerkwater jerkwater \jerkwater\ adj. [from jerk + water, a place where it is necessary to draw (jerk) water to supply the boiler of a steam engine.] 1. small and remote and insignificant; as, a jerkwater college. Syn: one-horse, pokey, poky. [WordNet 1.5] 2. (Railroads) Off the main railroad line. [Archaic] [PJC]