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dullsville

2 9.9

A place or situation that is very boring

noun
/ˈdʌlˌsvɪl/

Slang

: aburrimiento

Every weekend feels like dullsville when there are no fun activities planned.

Examples

This is Dullsville.

Cop & ½ (1993)
When you can't get any better and you can't get any worse: that is dullsville -- but will you ever come closer to being yourself?

Academic text (2007)
- Ray thinks it's dullsville.

Small Time Crooks (2000)
Being off work is dullsville.

Blog text (15)
Well, lesson number one: police work is Dullsville.

Cop & ½ (1993)
What we've got is a weekend in Dullsville.

Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997)
"Last train to Dullsville and you're the p48 engineer.

Fiction book (1995)
Dullsville!

Playmobil: The Movie (2019)
Dullsville.

The Apartment (1960)
After spending the afternoon with nothing to do, I realized it felt like dullsville.

Synonyms

flatland

vsdullsville

1 6.3

A dull place or situation with little change and no excitement

is intensely boring rather than merely lacking variety

No Fun City

vsdullsville

Informal

9.9

A place that is boring and has few fun things to do

is focused on extreme boredom rather than on rules or restrictions

How Boring

dullsville

Slang

2 9.9

snoozer

Informal

1 8.6

Surface Forms

dullsville singular

dullsvilles plural

Morphology

dullsville = dull (semi-transparent) = dull + sville

The expression is a jocular place-name style formation, so the meaning is not fully literal but is still easy to infer from dull + -sville.

Etymology

Dullsville comes from dull ('boring') plus -sville (a common town-name ending), so it makes the image of a town where nothing fun happens. That's why dullsville means a place or situation that is very boring.