Podunk

[1] These terms are often used in the upper case as a placeholder name, to indicate "insignificance" and "lack of importance".

[1][2][3] Podunk was first defined in an American national dictionary in 1934, as an imaginary small town considered typical of placid dullness and lack of contact with the progress of the world.

[4] The earliest citation in the Dictionary of American Regional English is from Samuel Griswold Goodrich's 1840 book The Politician of Podunk: Solomon Waxtend was a shoemaker of Podunk, a small village of New York some forty years ago.The book portrays Waxtend as being drawn by his interest in public affairs into becoming a representative in the General Assembly, finding himself unsuited to the role, and returning to his trade.

[5] It is unclear whether the author intended to evoke more than the place near Ulysses, New York by the name "Podunk".

It excited a two-line paragraph there.At the time, he was living in Buffalo, moving to Hartford, Connecticut in 1871, in a home within 4 miles (6.4 km) of the Podunk River.