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ˈdullsville, n. (and a.) slang (orig. U.S.).
Also Dullsville.
[f. dull a. 5: see -ville.]
An imaginary town characterized by extreme dullness or boredom; hence, a state, environment, or condition of extreme dullness. Cf. squaresville. Also attrib. or as adj.
1960N.Y. Times Mag. 28 Feb. 94/4 -ville, suffix connoting a superlative notion and tacked on to words at will to intensify them..as in..‘He's from Dullsville’. 1966Time 7 Oct. 17 Johnson is square, folksy and dullsville, sounding..like dozens of boring politicians from the past. 1967‘T. Wells’ Dead by Light of Moon xviii. 183 It was dullsville, that apartment. Decadent, like. 1969Guardian Weekly 23 Jan. 4 Style-wise..it looks like backward to Dullsville for the next four years in the nation's capital. 1978Oxford Times 13 Jan. 11/6 January and February are traditionally ‘dullsville’ months in restaurants and pubs and clubs. 1980Times 5 Dec. 1390/1 All his life he's been a citizen of the East Midlands... By the metropolis's jeering estimates, of course, these are..a series of worthy, yes, but oh how meanly parochial dullsvilles. |