Podunk

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1874 cartoon of a farmer bartering chickens in exchange for a subscription to the "Podunk Weekly Bugle"

The terms podunk and Podunk Hollow in American English denote or describe an insignificant, out-of-the-way, or even completely fictitious town.[1] These terms are often used in the upper case as a placeholder name, to indicate "insignificance" and "lack of importance".[2]

  1. ^ Nick Bacon. "Podunk After Pratt: Place and Placelessness in East Hartford, CT." In Confronting Urban Legacy: Rediscovering Hartford and New England’s Forgotten Cities. Xiangming Chen and Nick Bacon (eds). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.
  2. ^ Read, Allen 1939. "The Rationale of Podunk." American Speech 14(2): 99-108.