Nowheresvillen.

Brit.

/ˈnəʊwɛːzvɪl/, U.S.

/ˈnoʊ(h)wɛrzˌvɪl/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nowheres adv., -ville comb. form.

Etymology: < nowheres adv. + -ville comb. form. Compare earlier Nowhereville n.

colloquial and humorous (originally and chiefly U.S.).

A largely unknown or uninteresting place, esp. a small, rural town; (also figurative) obscurity, insignificance, limbo; = Nowhereville n.

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1917 T. H. Litster Songs your Heart & Mine 96 I came from back of Nowheresville, From Concession number three,..It's the place where I was born, you see.

1954 Long Beach (Calif.) Independent 27 July 10/7 Three years of research along the waterfront and hard writing and a lot of promoting looked like a long road to Nowheresville.

1959 Washington Post 8 Apr. a1/2 Legally speaking, the Coffee and Confusion Club, the beat generation's contribution to Foggy Bottom, was in Nowheresville yesterday.

1966 Time 21 Oct. 26 Sitting contentedly on the banks of the Illinois river in the very heartland of America, Peoria has for years been the butt of jokes, the gagman's tag for Nowheresville.

1985 New Yorker 14 Oct. 64/2 Eventually, we stopped in a little Nowheresville of a picnic area, on the banks of the Mississippi.

1989 T. C. Boyle If River was Whiskey 38 The bottom line is how does he go down over here and that's nowheresville.

2008 S. Quinn & S. Lambie Online Newsgathering xi. 153 Say the population of Nowheresville increased from 102 to 250 in one year because gold was found in the hills.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nowheresville
释义	Nowheresvillen. Brit. /ˈnəʊwɛːzvɪl/, U.S. /ˈnoʊ(h)wɛrzˌvɪl/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nowheres adv., -ville comb. form. Etymology: < nowheres adv. + -ville comb. form. Compare earlier Nowhereville n. colloquial and humorous (originally and chiefly U.S.). A largely unknown or uninteresting place, esp. a small, rural town; (also figurative) obscurity, insignificance, limbo; = Nowhereville n. ΚΠ 1917 T. H. Litster Songs your Heart & Mine 96 I came from back of Nowheresville, From Concession number three,..It's the place where I was born, you see. 1954 Long Beach (Calif.) Independent 27 July 10/7 Three years of research along the waterfront and hard writing and a lot of promoting looked like a long road to Nowheresville. 1959 Washington Post 8 Apr. a1/2 Legally speaking, the Coffee and Confusion Club, the beat generation's contribution to Foggy Bottom, was in Nowheresville yesterday. 1966 Time 21 Oct. 26 Sitting contentedly on the banks of the Illinois river in the very heartland of America, Peoria has for years been the butt of jokes, the gagman's tag for Nowheresville. 1985 New Yorker 14 Oct. 64/2 Eventually, we stopped in a little Nowheresville of a picnic area, on the banks of the Mississippi. 1989 T. C. Boyle If River was Whiskey 38 The bottom line is how does he go down over here and that's nowheresville. 2008 S. Quinn & S. Lambie Online Newsgathering xi. 153 Say the population of Nowheresville increased from 102 to 250 in one year because gold was found in the hills. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1917
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