boonies
boonies · boonieses
BoondocksBoondocks.
/ˈbuːniz/
» Welcome to the boonies.
Значение
значений: 1(США, разговорное, множественное число, только множественное число, сленг)Boondocks.
Примеры
предложений: 2Welcome to the boonies.
I couldn't stand living out in the boonies, so I moved to the Big Apple.
Происхождение
Clipping of boondocks + -ies, as if a singular *boony (“remote place (singular)”). It wasClipping of boondocks + -ies, as if a singular *boony (“remote place (singular)”). It was shortened as such by 1964 originally among U.S. troops serving in the Vietnam War in reference to the rural areas of Vietnam, as opposed to Saigon.
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