单词 | boonies |
释义 | booniesn. North American slang (originally U.S. Military). With the. The jungle; wild or rough country; (hence) a remote or unpopulated area; = boondock n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] westerneOE weste landOE wastinea1175 westec1175 wastec1200 wildernc1200 wildernessc1200 wildernessc1230 warlottc1290 forestc1320 wastyc1325 deserta1398 wastern?a1400 wildnessa1513 the wilds of1600 vastness1605 vastacy1607 roughet1616 wild1637 wildland1686 bush1780 wastage1823 mesquite1834 wasteland1887 mulga1896 virgin bush1905 boondock1944 boonies1954 virgin land1955 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > jungle jungle1776 belukar1849 shola1862 ulu1878 thorn jungle1913 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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