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单词 boonies
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booniesn.

Brit. /ˈbuːnɪz/, U.S. /ˈbuniz/
Origin: Formed wtihin English, by derivation. Etymons: boondock n., -y suffix6.
Etymology: < boon- (in boondock n.) + -y suffix6 + -s, plural ending.
North American slang (originally U.S. Military).
With the. The jungle; wild or rough country; (hence) a remote or unpopulated area; = boondock n.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun]
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boonies1954
1954 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Herald 3 Mar. 14/1 The jungle—everyone here [sc. Saipan] calls it the boonies—has taken over.
1968 N.Y. Times 31 Mar. a15/1 You'd have to get pretty far out on the ‘boonies’ before you'd be too far away from a [car] dealer.
1978 J. Pournelle West Honor in Future Hist. (1980) 349 He's sent A Company out into the boonies.
1986 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 73 157 The ‘grunts’, those soldiers who ‘humped the boonies’ in search of an elusive and deadly enemy.
1993 Harrowsmith Feb. 44/3 The reluctance of telephone companies to extend state-of-the-art..technology to the boonies.
2006 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 2 Nov. Being 250 people out in the boonies, we're having a hard time getting people to rally.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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