[attrib.](US informal)of or associated with small, remote, and insignificant rural settlements (美,非正式)偏僻地方的,边远小地方的 some jerkwater town. 某个偏僻乡镇。
语源
mid 19th cent.: from jerk + water, from the need for early railway engines to be supplied with water in remote areas, by dipping a bucket into a stream and ‘jerking’ it out by rope