A fictional place in the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, “where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average”. Serves as a proxy for the American small-town, particularly the American small town of the Upper Midwest.
Origin
, from lake + woebegone, but explained as derived from Ojibwe.
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