What does podunk mean?
Podunk means (US) Small, rural, and unimportant..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(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.
Use podunk when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Podunk means (US) Small, rural, and unimportant..
Common synonyms include backwater, boonies, drinkwater, jerkwater.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"'A Super Bowl win can legitimize us as a town. We're not some small podunk town anymore,'" said Spencer Venable of Indianapolis.
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