boonies

Anglais

Étymologie

Dérivé de boondocks avec le suffixe -ies, du tagalog bundok (« montagne »).

Nom commun

Invariable
boonies \ˈbuːniz\

boonies \ˈbuː.niz\ pluriel

1. (Au pluriel) (Familier) Cambrousse, bled, trou perdu.
   • In that sense it was a reversal of Vietnam, wasn’t it? There the bad things were out in the boonies, and you wanted to keep them from moving in. — (Tom Clancy, Without Remorse, 1993.)

Synonymes

• sticks
• boondocks