Podunk

[ poh-duhngk ]

noun

1. any small and insignificant or inaccessible town or village:

   After a year in the big city, I was ready to move back to Podunk.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Podunk¹

1660–70, Americanism; generic use of Podunk, village near Hartford, Conn.

Example Sentences

Lucius has a knack for showmanship, with moves he stole from Maximus, but he’s more feral, going tooth-to-tooth with a nasty baboon in a podunk ring outside the city.

From Los Angeles Times

It's like the band of Robin Hood people broke into this basically podunk office of the FBI, right?

From Salon

Cao later told podcast host Alec Lace that he did nothing illegal and that the story was published by a “podunk local newspaper.”

From Seattle Times

When he shows up at the Double Deuce in Podunk, Missouri U.S.A., it’s the kind of place “where they sweep up the eyeballs after closing,” the owner says.

From Salon

When Joan Monteillet was growing up here in the 1960s, she said, “it was just a Podunk town surrounded by wheat farms.”

From Washington Post