-ville

a combining form extracted from place names ending in -ville, used in the coinage of informal nonce words, usually pejorative, that characterize a place, person, group, or situation (dullsville; disasterville; mediaville) or that name a condition (embarr-ssmentville; gloomsville).
-ville
combining form
(slang, mainly us) (denoting) a place, condition, or quality with a character as specified dragsville, squaresville
-ville
suffix sporadically in vogue since c.1840 (cf. dullsville, palookaville), abstracted from the -ville in place names (louisville, greenville, etc.), from o.fr. ville “town,” from l. villa (see villa).
-sville
suffix

used to form adjectives characterized by what is indicated: dragsville/ splitsville/ squaresville
used to form nouns place characterized by what is indicated: derbyville/ motorsville (1891+)

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related terms

-sville