Cochin China (a historical region of Indochina) · Timbuktu (placeholder for a remote, distant, or boring place)
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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”).
köken: From South African Dutch pofadder. Equivalent to pof + adder.
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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).