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Not a place — a distance, measured in how far you are from a decent coffee.
means A remote, rural area far from any city — the middle of nowhere.
from Comes from the Tagalog word 'bundok,' meaning 'mountain.' American soldiers stationed in the Philippines in the early 1900s picked it up, and it spread through U.S. military slang to mean rough, remote terrain — then settled into civilian English as a catch-all for anywhere far from civilization.
- origin
- from Tagalog bundok, meaning mountain
- brought home by
- US soldiers occupying the Philippines, early 1900s
- linguistic irony
- a word about remoteness that traveled the whole world