dullsvillen.adj.
slang (originally U.S.).
An imaginary town characterized by extreme dullness or boredom; hence, a state, environment, or condition of extreme dullness. Cf. Squaresville n. Also attributive or as adj.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull place
Squaresville1956
dullsville1960
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > of life or circumstances
flat1604
still1706
dullsville1960
1960 N.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’.
1966 Time 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.
1969 Guardian Weekly 23 Jan. 4 Style-wise..it looks like backward to Dullsville for the next four years in the nation's capital.
1978 Oxf. Times 13 Jan. 11/6 January and February are traditionally ‘dullsville’ months in restaurants and pubs and clubs.
1980 Times 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.
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n.adj.1960