Etymology

boondocker

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Today it means: A kind of combat boot worn in the US Marine Corps. Full definition →

English boondock ← Tagalog bundok ← Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bunduk
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  1. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*bunduk
  2. Tagalogbundok
  3. Englishboondock
  4. English todayboondocker

From boondock + -er. Adopted by 1944 as U.S. services slang word for field boots during World War II under the U.S. military.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.