Squaresville
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
square + -s- + -ville, evoking a fictional town.
Proper noun[edit]
Squaresville
- A fictional or generic location occupied by unfashionable people.
- 2007 April 8, Charles Taylor, “My Favorite Spy”, in New York Times[1]:
- But too often it reads like the second-rate movies that in the ’60s tried to cash in on the Bond success, the Matt Helm and Derek Flint pictures in which 007’s cool was reduced to swinging bachelor squaresville, a place where it was believed that all the right accouterments — the right stereo system, the right booze, the right sex — equaled style and wit.