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The expression was introduced to English by American military personnel serving in the Philippines during the early years of the 20th century. It derives from the Tagalog word "bundok", meaning "mountain".
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i don't know the answer either.....maybe Alice`s is correct.......please someone answer this question..... what is the word origin of the ff. words?? 1. boondocks 2. boycott 3. Barbarian 4. braggadocio 5. democracy 6. Eureka 7. Igloo 8. ignoramus 9. kamikuze 10. laconic 11. money 12. ostracize 13. pasteurize 14. potpourri 15. rendezvous 16. salary 17. Shangri-la 18. sandwich 19. shampoo 20. Safari 21. Salaam 22. turncoat 23. Tsunami 24. typhoon 25. Jumbo 26. paparazzi 27. Pow-wow 28. ombudsman 29. titanic 30. Hodge-podge 31. Vandal 32. Coup d` etat 33. Viva-voce 34. Zenith 35. Zero
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My back porch..=P
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Its a show and Its funny.
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This word originated in Philippines If you're out in the boondocks, linguistically speaking, you're much more distant than the sticks, the backwoods, the hinterland, or the bush. In fact, you're in the Philippines. That's where the boondocks came from, during the American occupation that began with the defeat of Spain in 1898. In Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, bondoc means "mountain," and the term was used first by the occupying U.S. military to mean the Philippine mountains ... or jungle ... or remote area of any sort. By 1909 it was already in Webster's New International Dictionary with those meanings. But in English it remained largely military slang until the 1960s. The Marine Corps especially made use of boondocks. During World War II the Marines began calling their heavy combat boots boondockers, and they have worn that name ever since.
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