Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang Wild and dense brush; jungle.
- n. Slang Rural country; the backwoods.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a remote and undeveloped area; -- sometimes used deprecatingly.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a remote and undeveloped area
Etymologies
- 1910s, Tagalog bundok ("mountain"), adopted by American troops, reinforced or re-adopted during World War II. (Wiktionary)
- From Tagalog bundok, mountain. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“3. Abbreviated form of the word boondocks: the most remote part or parts of our country.”
“The ten-minute ride to the boondocks was a small mistake on their part.”
“Whooley and his friends would take their cars racing in the boondocks, which is pretty much everywhere in Wyoming, according to Whooley.”
“We used to go to bar called the boondocks and drink, dance and shoot pool.”
“We let her have her prom with her girlfriend and her tuxedo and we went to party it up in the "boondocks" not because we wanted her rights violated, but so we could salvage what has turned into a total fiasco.”
“When they became tired of the rat race of city life, they relocated to the "boondocks" to raise their children.”
“The Catch: In an effort to obliterate the term "boondocks," the government finally provides rural areas with access to faster Internet (and possibly America Online).”
“boondocks" is smart social commentary. maybe you should get that stick removed.”
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“The Too Dumb To Live young adults are competing in an "apocalyptic survival" reality show that for some reason takes place in the West Virginia boondocks.”
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“All my classmates seemed to be doing something great and here I was in the boondocks," said Mr. Kimura.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘boondocks’.
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Loanwords
Since English is littered with loanwords, everything could conceivably end up here. But there is a distinct feeling associated with these.. maybe they're young additions to the English language; I ...
iceberg, fjord, firth, abbey, abyss, anorak, apartheid, assassin, avalanche, avocado, balaclava, banana and 104 more...
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Americanism
American words
finest, fast food, acclimate, aluminum, alphabetize, airplane, affirmative action, arugula, backhoe, bangs, base board, bayou and 162 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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•Open List: Nicknames for Places, Usu...
Inspired by comments on Crapanddiarrhea and Hickalulu. (Thanks Oroboros!)
crapanddiarrhea, hickalulu, cowgary, alberta, san bedarnedifiknow, moron bay, albookooky, palmerslum, fred's ass, north cackalacky, boondocks, the boonies, the sticks and 5 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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-oons (once of more than one syllable)
Originally this list was to contain multisyllabic words that end in "oon," but as you can see from the comments, all hell broke loose.
doubloon, poltroon, spittoon, patroon, dragoon, bassoon, platoon, typhoon, rangoon, maroon, pontoon, monsoon and 96 more...
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kirstenio's Words
lascivious, transcendant, phantasmagoria, salacious, beatitude, solitude, pseudo, pretentious, inanity, sublimation, clobber, obscurity and 186 more...
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haguremetaru's Words
floozy, mandalay, mandible, x, don't, will, ridiculous, funily, stuff, junk, doody, manning and 152 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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Odd-Ball
Just plain fun to say and wonder about their origins.
rapscallion, ramahanukwanzmas, cockamamie, nincompoop, hemidemisemiquaver, antiinterdenomina..., cattywampus, ragamuffin, tatterdemalion, blunderbuss, brobdingnagian, tintinnabulation and 127 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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my words
interminable, effete, convocation, philistines, malaise, foibles, deputation, anathematized, morass, stalwart, proselytize, abet and 405 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for boondocks.
stuporglue Specifically from Tagalog, one of the languages spoken in the Philippines. Jun 8, 2009
jedelgado "Boondocks" is a word derived from the Filipino word BUNDOK direct meaning is Mountain. The word gained popular use by American Military men during the Filipino American War in 1898-1900, when they would ask their Filipino guides where the filipino forces where and the answer invariably was "nasa bundok" (in the mountains). Apr 1, 2009