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Jerkwater

Something Rhymes with Purple

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Jerk Water - The Name for a Kind of Insignificant Town

Jerk water was the name for a kind of insignificant town in the us. It denoted places where early railway engines, which needed to be supplied with water in those areas, would dip a bucket into a stream and jerk it out by a rope. Jerk Water towns came to be ones that didn't have much else, but they did have a stream. And it's possible that idea of insignificante then gave rise to the idea of being a jerk.

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