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English
Etymology
A reduplicated rhyming compound, from Herkimer and jerk. First appeared during the 1940s.
Noun
Herkimer Jerkimer (plural Herkimer Jerkimers)
- (New York City, slang, derogatory, dated) A yokel; a country bumpkin.
1995, Irving Lewis Allen, “The Contempt for Provincial Life”, in The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 245:Herkimer Jerkimer, a fool, a rustic, is a "jerk from Herkimer," an impossibly remote place. This jerk was, presumably, from his upstate hometown of Herkimer, New York, ZIP code 13350.
1995 November 19, Jesse McKinley, “F.Y.I.”, in New York Times, section 13, page 2:A 'Herkimer Jerkimer?' Why, that's a local yokel, you rube.