Meaning of ONE-HORSE
| Pronunciation: | | wun hors
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| | Definition: | | [adj] small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns" |
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| | Synonyms: | | jerkwater, pokey, poky, provincial |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \One"-horse`\, a.
1. Drawn by one horse; having but a single horse; as, a
one-horse carriage.
2. Second-rate; inferior; small. [Slang, U.S.]
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| | Related Terms: | | cramped, dinky, exiguous, half-pint, jerkwater, knee-high, limited, little, measly, niggling, petite, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piffling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, punk, puny, short, slight, small, small-beer, smallish, small-time, tinhorn, two-bit, two-by-four |
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