jerkwater

jerkwater
1. noun /ˈdʒɚk.wɑ.tɚ/

[…] 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.

2. adjective /ˈdʒɚk.wɑ.tɚ/
Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, backward

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