jerkwater vs provincial

jerkwater

adj
  • Of an inhabited place, small, insignificant, and backward. 

noun
  • A jerkwater town. 

  • A train on a branch line. 

provincial

adj
  • Narrow; illiberal. 

  • Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude 

  • Constituting a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to a province. 

  • Limited in outlook; narrow. 

  • Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical. 

noun
  • A country bumpkin. 

  • A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. 

  • A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order. 

How often have the words jerkwater and provincial occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )