someone on 'a shot at love with tila tequila' said it like a thousand times and i'm wondering what it means??
2007-12-28 07:57:44 · 4 answers · asked by deinaaa917 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
podunk = small town
The word is of Algonquian origin; it denoted both the Podunk people and marshy locations.
The earliest citation in the Dictionary of American Regional English is from Samuel Griswold Goodrich's 1840 "The Politician of Podunk", apparently intended for the young. It begins
Solomon Waxtend was a shoemaker of Podunk, a small village of New York some forty years ago.
In the course of fewer than 600 words, it 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[1]. (It could easily have been composed with the explicit intention of clarifying and endorsing Apelles's proverb Ne sutor ultra crepidam or "Cobbler, stick to your last.") Whether or not the author expected to evoke more than the the place near Ulysses, New York by the name "Podunk", the village (however small) seems not to be deprecated, but more likely to exemplify in the author's mind "plain, honest people" as opposed to more sophisticated ones with more questionable values.
2007-12-28 09:01:05 · answer #1 · answered by thinking.... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
podunk is slang for a very out of the way rural area.
2007-12-28 16:00:47 · answer #2 · answered by ignoramus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i saw that shot at love episode too... i was wondering the same thing...
2007-12-29 13:23:22 · answer #3 · answered by Micky W 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
boondocks....backwoods....hole in the wall....one horse town...the sticks...get the picture?
2007-12-28 16:03:29 · answer #4 · answered by buckshotbullies 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋