podunk

See also: Podunk

English

Etymology

From Podunk, a mythical small town of no importance, from Eastern Algonquian.

Adjective

podunk (comparative more podunk, superlative most podunk)

1. (US) Small, rural, and unimportant.
   • 2007 February 5, “"We're not some podunk town anymore”, in USA Today‎^[1]:

     "'A Super Bowl win can legitimize us as a town. We're not some small podunk town anymore,'" said Spencer Venable of Indianapolis.

   • 2010, “Round-Up Time: Pendleton Town Celebrates 100th!”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2], archived from the original on 10 October 2011:

     Yes the beautiful time every year when this little podunk town [of Pendleton, Oregon] swells to four or five times her size with Round-Up feverish Cowboy types who chew, spit and chase four-legged critters around a screaming arena….check that….That’s normal…

   • 2010 May 21, “You might live in a podunk town if...”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[3]:

     You might live in a podunk town if...your Wal-Mart has a hitching post.

Synonyms

• backwater
• boonies
• drinkwater
• jerkwater

See also

• Podunk
• Thesaurus:remote place