What's the difference between backwoods and boondock?

Backwoods


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Let’s just make that choice and - it feels better.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lawrence on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Lawrence, 24, rose to fame following her breakthrough role in backwoods drama Winter’s Bone (2010), for which she received a best actress Oscar nomination.
  • (2) The 26 bishops will be sending in their men, while rarely seen backwoods Christians and all the other faiths will be there.
  • (3) His early albums, Palace Music and There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You, sound like they were made in a shed in the backwoods somewhere way down South.
  • (4) They all came from the backwoods of the province of Skåne, the country's southern tip – in Sweden, "backwoods" is a literal term.
  • (5) Over 80% of the Black residents of McNary were born in backwoods lumbering towns in the American South.
  • (6) I wouldn't complain about it, the Boston Red Sox's insane backwoods murderer-style beards make me want to bleach my eye.
  • (7) As it has moved out of the Tory backwoods into Labour heartlands, Nigel Farage's party has succeeded in tapping into a deep vein of disenfranchisement and anti-establishment anger.
  • (8) Described as "something they would use in the far northern backwoods" by fan Marcus Rosengren, well-to-do Swedes once considered the use of Snus a bit coarse.
  • (9) Such rhetoric plays well at home, particularly from a man whose career has been built on an image of the straight-talker from the backwoods, and can be useful globally too.
  • (10) Sugarcane fields, citrus groves, backwoods – all gone.
  • (11) Many readers cannot (or will not) distinguish between a book with racist characters and a racist book; the fact that the novel's sympathies are clearly with Huck and Jim, and against all the slave-owners (who are also all the white adults), is outweighed, for these readers, by its casual use of the word "nigger" – even though that was the only word that illiterate backwoods white boys in the 1840s would have used to describe a slave.
  • (12) As the projected route winds through towns, villages and expanses of countryside, you get a sharp sense of a backwoods rebellion: fields smattered with the red-and-black Stop HS2 logos, and the odd slogan – "It's all about the money David, stupid".
  • (13) From the first line, the reader is pitched into the deep south: “Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file… anyone watching us from the cotton-house can see Jewel’s frayed and broken straw hat a full head above my own.” Welcome to a brutal, backwoods community of impoverished cotton farmers in 1920s Mississippi.
  • (14) She's the self-dubbed Backwoods Barbie with a penchant for dropping self-mocking aperçus such as: "If I have one more facelift I'll have a beard!"
  • (15) The hamlet, founded in 1984, has been the focus of “radical-right conspiracy theories and claims, alleging that it is one of a string of secret jihadist training camps in the backwoods of America”, the civil rights organization the Southern Policy Law Center said.

Boondock


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Researchers and sports scientists spend lots of time and money trying to figure out how best to prepare for tournaments but none of them has ever submitted a thesis recommending a year on the Loftus Road bench followed by a sojourn in the boondocks of Toronto FC.
  • (2) 12.44pm BST An email, from Claire McConnell: "I know you didn’t write that phrase, and that the MLS is no example of quality football, but as a resident of Toronto, a great city, I have to take umbrage at the “boondocks” word."
  • (3) Orlando Jones said: ‘Send it to me, I’ll put it on my networks.’ That’s not a small thing, he’s got 100,000 followers on Twitter.” Davis’ mentoring programme, Badboy Studios Mentoring Program, also has a history of success, helping to launch the careers of people like N Steven Harris, an Eisner-nominated writer for Watson & Holmes, and Aaron McGruder, the creator of Adult Swim’s wildly popular animation The Boondocks.
  • (4) I always think Boondock Saints ," – the 1999 film starring Willem Dafoe that bombed at the box office (though it had a second life on DVD) – "when someone announces their plan: 'It's going to be the greatest thing ever and I'm going to make four films…'" Ayoade crosses his legs, uncrosses them again.
  • (5) 'Til next time... 5.16pm BST Kenneth Craig has emailed, saying: "As a Vancouver resident (and fan of our MLS Whitecaps FC), I thank you for referring to 'the centre of the universe' as the 'boondocks'."
  • (6) You could go and live in the boondocks, and as long as you had a machine, you could make money.