Timbuctoon.
/ˌtɪmbʌkˈtuː/, U.S. /ˌtɪmbəkˈtu/ Used as the type of the most distant place imaginable.
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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > distant parts > the remotest part or place
utmostc825
world-endOE
world's endc1275
utteresta1300
utmostsa1382
uttermost1382
uttermosta1390
arsea1600
apogee1670
jumping-off place1826
Timbuctoo1863
arse-end1896
ass-end1960
1863 L. Duff-Gordon Lett. from Egypt (1969) 104 It is growing dreadfully Cockney here [i.e. Cairo]. I must go to Timbuctoo.
1935 A. Christie Death in Clouds xiv. 148 ‘She's sorry—’ ‘—but she may be going to Timbuctoo’ finished Norman.
1974 V. Canning Painted Tent ix. 182 Trevor Green wished Smiler in Timbuctoo, but since that couldn't be arranged, he just wished him ill.
1981 Times 19 Feb. 2/4 Electors promising to follow their ‘Shirl’ [sc. Shirley Williams] to Timbuctoo if she should choose to go there.
Derivatives
ˌTimbucˈtoot adj. fanciful of or pertaining to Timbuctoo, foreign, outlandish.Apparently an isolated use.
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1930 D. H. Lawrence Nettles 16 And the world it didn't give a hoot If his blood was British or Timbuctoot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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