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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread boondocks #113014 10/02/03 12:29 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Another word that US soldiers learned in the Philippines and brought home. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: boondocks #113015 10/03/03 11:24 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory A Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah A Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory There are many hilarious terms for remote and presumably undesirable locales (the sticks, "BFE"*, Podunk, Outer Mongolia...). I never would have dreamed that "boondocks" was from a foreign language. I guess in the back of my mind I figured it had something to do with Daniel Boone. *Bumfuck, Egypt Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Podunk #113016 10/03/03 12:12 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York There really *is a Podunk, in upstate New York. This link tells us it means "swampy place," I'm guessing from one of the Iroquois languages. I understand the townsfolk don't put up an "Entering Podunk" sign any more because people keep stealing it. http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=1449 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Podunk #113017 10/03/03 12:24 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 MA has Ponkapoag and Seekonk. The latter is from Indian word for skunk. I have read that Chicago meant "place of many skunks". Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Podunk and Other Swamp Lore #113018 10/04/03 05:11 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... You know, there's those who like swamps and those who don't. I don't like swamps because there's a likelihood that you'll come across poison sumac. Now, staghorn sumac and shining sumac are two very nice American trees. But poison sumac is probably about the nastiest poisonous plant we've got here in the US--at least skinwise. I'll never forget my childhood babysitter, Diane Gibbs, going through a horrible bout with poison sumac. She was hospitalized--covered with horrible swellings filled with pus. So, I don't like no podunks no how. Gators, I like; but forget them pus swellings in the hospital. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,372 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 220 guests, and 2 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 28 A C Bowden 25 LukeJavan8 3 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,561 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,919 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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