Quotes About Tagalog

abaca n. a large herbaceous Asian plant of the banana family, yielding Manila hemp. Musa textilis, family Musaceae. [mass noun] Manila hemp. mid 18th century: via Spanish from Tagalog abaká.

Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.

The war in the Philippines gave English a successor word to "frontier," used to refer to remoteness: "boondocks," from the Tagalog, "a distant, unpopulated place," adopted by U.S. soldiers fighting a shadowy war against hit-and-run enemies. Its usage was expanded in World War II and then shortened in Vietnam to "boonies.