Meaning

1 senses

  1. (US, informal, plural, plural only, slang)Boondocks.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Welcome to the boonies.

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  2. I couldn't stand living out in the boonies, so I moved to the Big Apple.

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Origin

Clipping of boondocks + -ies, as if a singular *boony (“remote place (singular)”). It was

Clipping 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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Forms

plural: boonieses
Singularboonies
Pluralboonieses

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
See: Thesaurus:remote place

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
boonboondockboopboorboorish
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