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, generic use of Podunk, village near Hartford, Conn.

Example Sentences

Depp said reality TV had made it so that "some f**king guy from f**king Podunk, Iowa, can get his own show" without showing any obvious talent.

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He was not just some podunk tax collector, but a prominent ally of President-elect Donald Trump — so close to Trump, in fact, that he was put forward as Merrick Garland’s replacement.

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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.

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

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

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