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Boondocks

2 stages from Tagalog to English.

Today it means a remote, rural area far from a city
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bundok
Tagalog · 1800s
"a mountain"
literally mountain, referring to remote, rural terrain
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boondocks
English · 1940s
"a remote, rural area"
brought back by American soldiers stationed in the Philippines for remote rural areas
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