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1874 cartoon of a farmer bartering chickens in exchange for a subscription to the "Podunk Weekly Bugle"

The terms podunk and Podunk Hollow in American English denote or describe an insignificant, out-of-the-way, or even completely fictitious town.[1] These terms are often used in the upper case as a placeholder name, to indicate "insignificance" and "lack of importance".[2]

  1. ^ Nick Bacon. "Podunk After Pratt: Place and Placelessness in East Hartford, CT." In Confronting Urban Legacy: Rediscovering Hartford and New England’s Forgotten Cities. Xiangming Chen and Nick Bacon (eds). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.
  2. ^ Read, Allen 1939. "The Rationale of Podunk." American Speech 14(2): 99-108.

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The Podunk Bluegrass Festival is a bluegrass festival established in 1996 and taking place in August each year in Connecticut, United States. The festival...

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talent holding deal with CBS. Polaha founded a production company titled Podunk Productions in 2010. He played writer Henry Butler in The CW's thriller...

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begins with a black and white flashback to 1965, in a small town called Podunk, USA. In a laboratory situated on the roof of a mansion, a malfunction occurs...

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Algonquian peoples

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Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, and Quinnipiac. The Mohegan, Pequot, Pocumtuc, Podunk, Tunxis, and Narragansett were based in southern New England. The Abenaki...

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Packera malmstenii

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species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name Podunk ragwort. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where there about 19...

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Massachusetts Route 49

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49 is a two-lane expressway in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Known as Podunk Pike, the highway runs 7.44 miles (11.97 km) from U.S. Route 20 (US 20)...

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Connecticut

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the Sequin or "River Indians" (which included the Tunxis, Schaghticoke, Podunk, Wangunk, Hammonasset, and Quinnipiac), the Mattabesec or "Wappinger Confederacy"...

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Massachusetts

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New Orleans

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W. Apple Jr. "Apple's America". Archived from the original (quoted on ePodunk.com) on October 13, 2007. Retrieved January 4, 2007. New Orleans "is often...

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Boondocks

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and directed by Troy Duffy Hillbilly Hinterland Jíbaro Middle of nowhere Podunk Waikikamukau Yokel From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bunduk ("higher ground")...

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Quiripi language

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Long Island, including the Quinnipiac, Unquachog, Mattabessett (Wangunk), Podunk, Tunxis, and Paugussett (subgroups Naugatuck, Potatuck, Weantinock). It...

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Cherokee

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July 12, 2012] "Cherokee Ancestry Search – Cherokee Genealogy by City". ePodunk.com. Archived from the original on July 30, 2010. Retrieved April 17, 2010...

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Placeholder name

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to mean a place that is far away, in the middle of nowhere, or exotic. Podunk is used in American English for a hypothetical small town regarded as typically...

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Schaghticoke people

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Woodlands who historically consisted of Mahican, Potatuck, Weantinock, Tunxis, Podunk, and their descendants, peoples indigenous to what is now New York, Connecticut...

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Highway of Tears

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September 2018. "A TOWN CALLED PODUNK: Seventeen years later, Cold case still holds Rupert's interest". A TOWN CALLED PODUNK. 9 July 2006. Retrieved 27 August...

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