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It's far from a metropolis
Answer for the clue "It's far from a metropolis ", 6 letters:
podunk
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Word definitions for podunk in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
legendary small town, 1846, originally the name of a small group of Indians who lived around the Podunk River in Connecticut; the tribe name is in colonial records from 1656 (as Potunck ), from southern New England Algonquian (Mohegan or Massachusetts) ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. small, rural, and unimportant
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Podunk is a term used in the United States to represent an insignificant place. Podunk may also be: Podunk (people) , an Algonquian-language, Eastern Woodlands group of Native Americans Podunk, Ulysses, New York Podunk (band) , a Texas rock band Podunk ...
Usage examples of podunk.
Being a chief deputy in Podunk was a demotion from being a lieutenant on the Memphis police force, and his yearly salary dropped by over twenty thousand.
The Voltarians, with all this nonsense about sources and accuracy, were definitely on the wrong road: even the corniest weekly in Podunk could give them lessons.
The second time you must keep me waiting for an hour and a half, then come out into the reception room and shake hands and ask me whether I know the Wilsons of Podunk and say how nice that we have mutual friends, but you're in an awful hurry today and you'll call me up for lunch soon and then we'll talk business.
The person who says smugly that good manners are the same everywhere and people are just people hasn't been farther out of Podunk than the next whistle stop.