backwater, Hicksville, bumfuck (a backwards, boring rural town or village)
çekim: çoğul Käffer · tamlayan Kaffs
eş: Nest
köken: 19th century, from Romani gav (“village”), from Sanskrit ग्राम (grāma, “village”). Probably influenced by Rotwelsch kefar, from Hebrew כְּפָר (kfar, “village”); perhaps also by etymology 2 in the sense of “something worthless”. The now common plural in -er probably after Dörfer.
Timbuktu (placeholder for a remote, distant, or boring place)
köken: Compare Portuguese Cochinchina (“placeholder for a remote, distant, or boring place”). Might harken back to the French conquest of Vietnam (1858–1885) that the Spanish Empire in nearby Spanish Philippines aided in or the Cambodian–Spanish War (1593–1597).
Cochin China (a historical region of Indochina) · Timbuktu (placeholder for a remote, distant, or boring place)
eş: onde Judas perdeu as botas, cu do mundo
köken: From Cochim + China, to distinguish from the Indian town of Cochin. Compare Spanish Cochinchina and Spanish Conchinchina (“placeholder for a remote, distant, or boring place”).