Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. small, rural, and unimportant
Examples
“The real Smith started out in podunk Texas as flat-chested, dark-haired, unlovely Vickie Lynn Hogan with an abusive father, a hapless mother - and zero prospects.”
“You know the bill is due so why screw around and pretend you are in podunk Amerika where everybody knows your name and bills are always right where you expect them and if not, you'll get a thousand reminders.”
“Menand or other R-1 types may think of us as "podunk" but I truly feel like a public intellectual where I am.”
“The community name connotes a backwoods community, much like "podunk”
“Did the (alleged) mother _really_, upon her water breaking: give a speech, fly to Seattle for a layover, fly to Alaska, then drive for 45 minutes to have her (premature) baby be born in a relatively "podunk" medical facility?”
“Try moving outside of your "podunk" little town and your moms basement and learn a little about how the real world operates.”
“The word "podunk" was used five times; "lunk-headed" and "trashy" were used to describe our students, none of whom had he met.”
“Here's something out of left field: The term "podunk," is of American Indian origin.”
“And all our lives we've been told, 'podunk' and 'hick town' and 'backwoods' and guess what: we just had a boy out of here that went to compete with the big guns. ...”
“Bozo The Neoclown says: people like big john make me proud to live in new england and not the podunk-assed state he does.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘podunk’.
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unk knowns
bunk, chipmunk, junkyard, funk, junket, crunk, chunk, kerplunk, hunk, preshrunk, spunk, countersunk and 53 more...
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generationnext's Words
petulant, vehement, pensive, lascivious, vacillate, histrionic, satiated, svelte, lithe, zeitgeist, viscous, sommelier and 526 more...
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P is for Porch Dog
My P Words
paddington, paddy wagon, paddy whack, paddywhack, paisano, pandemonium, pantaloon, pantaloons, paper tiger, papoose, parachute pants, parcel and 109 more...
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whatever1013's Words
chocolate, sesquipedalophobia, discombobulated, callipygian, retronym, squirm, cobalt blue, plethora, onomatopoeia, blowhard, strumpet, shush and 173 more...
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Man likes these words
danube, schadenfreude, macabre, wanderlust, epiphany, azure, zeitgeist, cerulean, ennui, rhine, abyss, mulch and 130 more...
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states of mind: from absurdistan to zion
Countries, lands, cities that capture, or haunt, our dreams. Some of the places listed might be the names of actual localities, but here they are states of mind.
absurdistan, banana republic, utopia, mitteleuropa, new jerusalem, deseret, canaan, zion, ruritania, outer slobovia, lower slobovia, avalon and 126 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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p is for...
my favorite voiceless bilabial plosive.
panacea, persnickety, panache, provenance, preternatural, penumbra, perfunctory, perspicacity, potentate, pinguid, plainsong, pleonastic and 228 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Fun
harangue, quixotic, persnickety, lachrymose, kerfuffle, zephyr, chthonic, vixen, fiend, scoundrel, cricket, belfry and 193 more...
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Smallville
Words and things I associate with the TV show "Smallville". some of it has to do with fandom so... no. don't ask. it's better if you don't know. Suggestions Welcome!
homoerotic, frottage, fetish, lewd, nefarious, vixen, propinquity, squee, podunk, angst, alluring, frenemy and 13 more...
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jessicaangeline's Words
tart, ubiquitous, rakish, specious, onus, trollop, strumpet, gourmand, podunk, nitwit, splendiferous, schlep and 13 more...
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consarn it!
words that might be overheard at a hootenanny
consarn it, crick, coot, whippersnapper, heck to breakfast, hootenanny, yippie ki-yi-yay, shindig, fishin', yee haw, cattywampus, codger and 35 more...
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words that sound silly
gaffer, quid, pepino, lupita, flim-flam, fiddle-faddle, poppycock, balderdash, radish, sagittarius, kerchief, egregious and 11 more...
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rattatner's Words
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The Southern List
Tweets
Looking for tweets for podunk.

YeOldeWorde A nondescript, obscure or insignificant city or place. Usually pejorative or ironic. Can be used as a modifier, noun, adjective, and so on. Largely informal. Mar 21, 2012