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boonies

/ˈbuːniz/

boonies noun: boondocks.

Noun

boonies pl (plural only)

  1. (US, informal, plural, plural-only, slang) Boondocks.

boonies meaning in Bengali

boonies in Bengali

বোন্ডোকস

Origin of boonies

Clipping of boondocks + -ies, as if a singular *boony (“remote place (singular)”). It was shortened as such by 1964 originally among U.S. troops serving in the Vietnam War in reference to the rural areas of Vietnam, as opposed to Saigon.

Questions about boonies

What does boonies mean?
Boonies means boondocks.
What is boonies in Bengali?
Boonies in Bengali is বোন্ডোকস. See Boonies meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is boonies?
Boonies is a noun.
How do you pronounce boonies?
Boonies is pronounced /ˈbuːniz/.

Words near boonies in the dictionary

  1. boongaries
  2. boongary
  3. boongas
  4. boongs
  5. boonie hat
  6. boonies
  7. boonk
  8. boonks
  9. boonless
  10. Boonoo Boonoo
  11. boons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boonies (page history and authors); boonies (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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