Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. slang, pejorative A geographical location that is deemed obscure or unimportant.
Etymologies
- nowhere + -ville (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Law & Order: SVU is on the crazy train, jumping tracks and stranding passengers in Nowheresville.”
Alynda Wheat's Beat Cop: We come to bury 'SVU,' not to praise it | EW.com
“Schafernaker, one of the youngest and most glamorous weather presenters, has appeared on the cover of Attitude magazine wearing only pants, had to apologise for referring to the Outer Hebrides as "Nowheresville" and is most recently famous for giving the finger to a news presenter as the camera panned back on him.”
The Guardian: Chilly outlook forecast for the BBC's weathermen
“From out of "Nowheresville," these young men are making a difference through discovering something much better is possible than what they'd previously believed.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Cara Barker: Are You Living a Life Too Small?
“Nowheresville" during a forecast. embarrassing fit of the giggles during a wintry forecast after a news presenter introduced him in front of "his frozen ball".”
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“You're right on track again, the track to Nowheresville.”
“On the slow train from the Nobody Inn to Nowheresville, making all local stops, that's where.”
The Guardian: Republican candidates target New Hampshire – Thursday 6 January
“And the wingnuts are STILL absolutely terrified of housing them in a federal prison in Nowheresville, MO?”
“If Miss Mediocrity from Nowheresville can run for Vice President then maybe we, sitting on our sofa, stuffing down Doritos, can do great things, too.”
The Huffington Post: Christina Patterson: We Loved You, Sarah, Because You Made Us Feel Smart
“The loser in all of these negotiations was Nowheresville, which was perhaps doomed by its very name.”
“I am occasionally gripped by an irrational terror that I have got on the wrong bus and am on a one-way trip to Nowheresville, but by the following afternoon I finally end up in Ann Arbor.”
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Metaphorical locations
Fictional places that, somehow, everyone has heard of anyway.
Real places that have taken on the veneer of myth.
Anywhere that's really nowhere.Bumfuck, Idaho, Timbuktu, Dullsville, Anytown, USA, Nowheresville, The Boondocks, The Boonies, Skid Row, Main Street, the wrong side of..., cloudcuckooland, utopia and 45 more...
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