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Timbuctoo|ˌtɪmbʌkˈtuː|
The name of a town (now officially spelt Timbuktu) on the edge of the Sahara in West Africa, used as the type of the most distant place imaginable.
1863L. Duff-Gordon Lett. from Egypt (1969) 104 It is growing dreadfully Cockney here [sc. Cairo]. I must go to Timbuctoo. 1935A. Christie Death in Clouds xiv. 148 ‘She's sorry—’ ‘—but she may be going to Timbuctoo’ finished Norman. 1974V. Canning Painted Tent ix. 182 Trevor Green wished Smiler in Timbuctoo, but since that couldn't be arranged, he just wished him ill. 1981Times 19 Feb. 2/4 Electors promising to follow their ‘Shirl’ [sc. Shirley Williams] to Timbuctoo if she should choose to go there.
Hence ˌTimbucˈtoot a. (fanciful nonce-wd.), of or pertaining to Timbuctoo, foreign, outlandish.
1930D. H. Lawrence Nettles 16 And the world it didn't give a hoot If his blood was British or Timbuctoot. |