Podunk
pronunciation
How to pronounce Podunk in British English:
UK [ˈpəʊdʌŋk]
How to pronounce Podunk in American English:
US [ˈpoʊdʌŋk]
Word Origin
- Podunk
- 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.
Example
- 1. You know what ? I won 't force you to stay in this podunk .
- 2. So I 'm supposed to take the word of some lesbian president of a podunk teacher 's college ?