podunk

noun

1. A member of a Native American people who spoke an Algonquian Quiripi language and lived primarily in modern-day Hartford County, Connecticut.

name

1. (US)A mythical small town of no importance.

   “They even know it in Podunk, wherever that may be.”

   “Podunk. A term applied to an imaginary place in burlesque writing or speaking.”

   “Podunk, like Atlantis, has no locus. Sought often, it is unfound and apparently unfindable.”

   “This isn't some Podunk charge in some Podunk court. Charged with four counts of perjury and one of obstruction of justice, Bonds, if convicted, could be sentenced to a maximum of 30 years in prison.”

adj

1. (US)Small, rural, and unimportant.

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

   “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…”

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