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boondocks (BOON-doks) - pl.n. (usually with "the"), a remote and wild place, the back country; a remote rural area.
From Tagalog bundok, mountain, which also colloquially meant a rural area as Filipino cities are almost all on the coast and the mountains rugged jungles -- adopted in the 1910s by American soldiers in occupied Philippines in the remote-and-wild sense, and then readopted in the 1940s, when it got more currency and eventually the extended meaning of just rural, or at least remote from the urban center.
---L.
From Tagalog bundok, mountain, which also colloquially meant a rural area as Filipino cities are almost all on the coast and the mountains rugged jungles -- adopted in the 1910s by American soldiers in occupied Philippines in the remote-and-wild sense, and then readopted in the 1940s, when it got more currency and eventually the extended meaning of just rural, or at least remote from the urban center.
---L.
