"podunk" meaning in All languages combined

See podunk on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more podunk [comparative], most podunk [superlative]
Etymology: From Podunk, a mythical small town of no importance, from Eastern Algonquian. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|alg-eas}} Eastern Algonquian Head templates: {{en-adj}} podunk (comparative more podunk, superlative most podunk)
  1. (US) Small, rural, and unimportant. Wikipedia link: podunk Tags: US Synonyms: backwater, boonies, drinkwater, jerkwater Related terms: Podunk, remote place
    Sense id: en-podunk-en-adj-VIEJ3Zsk Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for podunk meaning in All languages combined (2.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "alg-eas"
      },
      "expansion": "Eastern Algonquian",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Podunk, a mythical small town of no importance, from Eastern Algonquian.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more podunk",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most podunk",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "podunk (comparative more podunk, superlative most podunk)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 February 5, “\"We're not some podunk town anymore”, in USA Today",
          "text": "\"'A Super Bowl win can legitimize us as a town. We're not some small podunk town anymore,'\" said Spencer Venable of Indianapolis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, “Round-Up Time: Pendleton Town Celebrates 100th!”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2011-10-10",
          "text": "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…",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 May 21, “You might live in a podunk town if...”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)",
          "text": "You might live in a podunk town if...your Wal-Mart has a hitching post.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Small, rural, and unimportant."
      ],
      "id": "en-podunk-en-adj-VIEJ3Zsk",
      "links": [
        [
          "Small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "rural",
          "rural"
        ],
        [
          "unimportant",
          "unimportant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) Small, rural, and unimportant."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Podunk"
        },
        {
          "word": "remote place"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "backwater"
        },
        {
          "word": "boonies"
        },
        {
          "word": "drinkwater"
        },
        {
          "word": "jerkwater"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "podunk"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "podunk"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "alg-eas"
      },
      "expansion": "Eastern Algonquian",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Podunk, a mythical small town of no importance, from Eastern Algonquian.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more podunk",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most podunk",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "podunk (comparative more podunk, superlative most podunk)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Podunk"
    },
    {
      "word": "remote place"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms borrowed from Eastern Algonquian languages",
        "English terms derived from Eastern Algonquian languages",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 February 5, “\"We're not some podunk town anymore”, in USA Today",
          "text": "\"'A Super Bowl win can legitimize us as a town. We're not some small podunk town anymore,'\" said Spencer Venable of Indianapolis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, “Round-Up Time: Pendleton Town Celebrates 100th!”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2011-10-10",
          "text": "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…",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 May 21, “You might live in a podunk town if...”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)",
          "text": "You might live in a podunk town if...your Wal-Mart has a hitching post.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Small, rural, and unimportant."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "rural",
          "rural"
        ],
        [
          "unimportant",
          "unimportant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) Small, rural, and unimportant."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "podunk"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "backwater"
    },
    {
      "word": "boonies"
    },
    {
      "word": "drinkwater"
    },
    {
      "word": "jerkwater"
    }
  ],
  "word": "podunk"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.