podunk
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈpoʊdʌŋk/
- Informal
:
pueblo insignificante
- The irony is that so many kids didn't make it to graduation in our old podunk town that tickets were no longer necessary.
- podunk town
Examples
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I love this podunk town.
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To lead this one little podunk town to reject your company.
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- How I wound up in this podunk town, it's a long story.
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We're gonna find you a doctor in one of these podunk towns and get him to give you something for that headache.
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Government-funded research center in some podunk town.
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The school term ends, and the kids rush out to spend the summer doing fun stuff, but there's nothing fun to do in their little podunk mountain town, especially since the place is geared toward winter sports.
Blog text (31) -
Then I went to church—it was a little Methodist church, sitting up on a hill in the middle of that podunk town—
Fiction book (1995) -
Many people consider that small podunk town to be rather boring.
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After living in the city, moving to this podunk town felt like a big change.
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She comes from a podunk town where everyone knows each other's name.
Synonyms
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1.5
A community with few people and few shops
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5.0
A very small group of houses in the countryside
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A small town with few shops and little to do
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7.0
An unpleasant run-down place where few people want to live
Antonyms
How Important
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5.2
∞
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∞
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1.5
- Informal
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9.9
∞
1.0
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word podunk originally named a place and comes from a Native American term for a 'muddy spot'. Over time people used it as a joking name for any small, dull town, so a podunk is now a small, unimportant town.