woop woopn.
/ˈwʊp ˌwʊp/, U.S. /ˈwʊp ˌwʊp/, Australian English /ˈwʊp ˌwʊp/, New Zealand English /ˈwʊp ˌwʊp/ Australian and New Zealand.
a. A jocular name for a remote rural town or district; also (without the and with capital initials) as the name of an imaginary place in a remote area. One suggestion is that the term is derived from the ‘geelorious town o' Whoop-Up’ in E. L. Wheeler's Deadwood Dick on Deck (1878), where ‘Whoop-Up’ is the name of a back-country U.S. goldmining town.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > remote or outlying area
nookc1480
out-country1639
outland1645
remoteness1694
backwoods1709
back county1775
remote1838
Mountains of the Moon1852
nowhere1871
the sticks1899
way back1901
downstate1905
back o' Bourke1918
far-back1926
woop woop1926
boohai?1946
bundu1946
Dogpatch1946
outback1954
toolies1961
upstate1965
Watford1973
1926 ‘J. Doone’ Timely Tips for New Australians 23 Woop Woop, a humorous method of alluding to the country districts used most frequently in New South Wales.
1928 A. Wright Good Recovery 34 They're chasin' Murraba out along the Woop Woop Road, or somewhere.
1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Jan. 28/2 ‘Who on earth is she?’ gasped the visitor from Woop-Woop.
1958 J. Lindsay Life Rarely Tells 213 Next morning he'd rush away. ‘Off to the Woop-woop!’ Somewhere in the backblocks that meant.
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl iii. i. 174 ‘Where do you come from?’ ‘Up in the wilds—the woop-woops, Taranaki.’
1963 N.Z. Truth 8 Oct. A job was found right out in the wop-wops.
1970 N.Z. Listener 21 Dec. 51/2 While you're out in the woop-woops next time, spare a thought for the local farmer.
1975 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 26 Mar. 12/6 Police feared they would be transferred to ‘Woop Woop’.
b. An inhabitant of such a place; a country bumpkin. rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant
tillman940
churla1000
ploughman1223
bondmanc1250
bondc1275
ploughswain1296
countrymanc1300
boundec1320
Hobc1325
charla1400
landmana1400
Jack (John) Upland1402
carlc1405
bowerc1430
peasanta1450
rurala1475
agrest1480
bergier1480
carlleina1500
rustical?1532
ploughboy1544
boor1548
rusticc1550
kern1556
tillsman1561
clown1563
Jocka1568
Jock upalanda1568
John Uponlanda1568
russet coat1568
rustican1570
hind?1577
swain1579
Corydon1581
mountain man1587
Phillis1589
sylvan1589
russeting1597
Joan1598
stubble boy1598
paysan1609
carlota1616
swainling1615
raiyat1625
contadino1630
under-swaina1644
high shoe1647
boorinn1649
Bonhomme1660
high-shoon-man1664
countrywoman1679
villan1685
russet gown1694
ruralist1739
paysanne1748
bauer1799
bonderman1804
bodach1830
contadina1835
agrestian1837
peasantess1841
country jake1845
rufus1846
bonder1848
hayseed1851
bucolic1862
agricole1882
country jay1888
child (son, etc.) of the soil1891
hillbilly1900
palouser1903
kisan1935
woop woop1936
swede-basher1943
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > country dweller > [noun]
countrymanc1300
landmana1400
Jack (John) Upland1402
rurala1475
rustical?1532
rusticc1550
Jock upalanda1568
John Uponlanda1568
rustican1570
countrywoman1679
country cousin1692
ruralist1739
country mouse1750
backwoodsman1774
back-countryman1796
mountaineer1837
ruralite1841
mountain man1847
smock-frock1858
way back1890
woop woop1936
swamp Yankee1941
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > rude or ignorant
chuffc1440
mobarda1450
lob1533
lobcocka1556
clown1565
hick1565
bumpkin1570
swad1572
peasant1576
hob-clunch1578
hoblob1582
clubhutchen1584
bacon1598
boor1598
hobbinol1600
homespun1600
loblolly lamb1600
lob-coat1604
loblolly1604
hobnail1645
champkina1652
bacon-slicer1653
jobson1660
hob-thrush1682
country put1688
put1688
country cousin1692
clodhopper1699
hawbuck1787
Johnny Raw1803
joskin1811
yokel1819
whopstraw1821
chaw-bacon1822
lobeline1844
country jake1845
Hoosier1846
hayseed1851
Reuben1855
scissorbill1876
agricole1882
country jay1888
rube1891
jasper1896
farmer1903
stump jumper1936
woop woop1936
potato head1948
no-neck1961
1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger 472 Adrienne was no blob or woop-woop.
1950 Coast to Coast 1949–50 201 I'll make a fair dinkum woop-woop out of you in no time.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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