boondock

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbuːn.dɒk/
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• General-American: /ˈbun.dɑk/
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Etymology tree Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bunduk Tagalog bundokbor. English boondock 1910s during or around the Philippine–American War after the Spanish–American War, from Tagalog bundok (“mountain”), adopted by occupying American soldiers serving in the mountains or rural countryside of the American-occupied Philippines under the United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands. The term was reinforced or re-adopted during World War II under the U.S. military, where terms like boondockers (“shoes suited for rough terrain”) came originally in 1944 as U.S. services slang word for field boots. It was later shortened to boonies by 1964 originally among U.S. troops serving in the Vietnam War in reference to the rural areas of Vietnam, as opposed to Saigon.

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 窮鄉僻壤 /穷乡僻壤 (qióngxiāngpìrǎng) — rural area
• Dutch: platteland — rural area
• Dutch: buiten — rural area
• Dutch: kampong — rural area
• Finnish: erämaa — rural area
• Finnish: pensasaro — rural area
• Finnish: pusikko — rural area
• Finnish: pöpelikkö — rural area
• French: cambrousse — rural area
• German: Einöde — rural area
• German: Pampa — rural area
• German: Walachei — rural area
• German: Kartoffelsteppe — rural area
• German: Hundetürkei — rural area
• German: vulg. Arsch der Welt — rural area
• Japanese: 僻地 (hekichi) — rural area
• Japanese: 奥地 (okuchi) — rural area
• Marshallese: bukun mar — rural area
• Persian: تورقوزآباد (turquz-âbâd) — rural area
• Romanian: coclauri — rural area
• Russian: глушь (glušʹ) — rural area
• Russian: захолу́стье (zaxolústʹje) — rural area
• Spanish: barrios lejanos — rural area
• Spanish: quintos infiernos — rural area
• Swedish: vischan — rural area
• Tagalog: probinsiya — rural area
• Yiddish: העק (hek) — rural area
• Finnish: leiriytyä erämaassa — camp in dry location
• Dutch: wildkamperen — stay in a recreational vehicle
• Finnish: yöpyä erämaassa — stay in a recreational vehicle