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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) Potunk, probably from pautaunke, from pot- "to sink" + locative suffix -unk, thus "a boggy place." Its popularity as the name of a typical (if mythical) U.S. small town dates from a series of witty "Letters from Podunk" which ran in the "Buffalo Daily National Pilot" newspaper beginning Jan. 5, 1846.
Wiktionary
a. small, rural, and unimportant
Wikipedia
The terms Podunk, podunk, or Podunk Hollow in American English denotes or describes an insignificant, out-of-the-way, or fictitious town. It is often used in the upper case as a placeholder name, to indicate insignificance and lack of importance.
Podunk is a hard rock band that formed in Port Arthur, Texas in 1992, soon thereafter establishing themselves on the scene in Austin, Texas. Similar to AC/DC and The Black Crowes in style, Podunk performed at South by Southwest in the mid-1990s and subsequently. Their CD Throwin' Bones, released in 1998, was re-released nationally by Matchbox Records in 2000, and the track "Wings" saw airplay nationwide. Podunk's songs have appeared on several of KLBJ's Local Licks Live series of recordings. They opened for Tesla on some tour dates in 2004. They have also opened nationwide for King's X. The band has enjoyed a number of positive reviews in US press outlets.
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 Bluegrass Festival, an annual bluegrass festival held in East Hartford, Connecticut
- Podunk, a nickname for the Denver Harbor area of Houston, Texas
- Poeville, Nevada, a ghost town, nicknamed Podunk after John Poe, founder of the mining camp
"Podunk" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Keith Anderson. It was released in September 2006 as the fifth single from the album Three Chord Country and American Rock & Roll. The song reached #34 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The song was written by Anderson, Jeffrey Steele and Tom Hambridge.
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.