Thesaurus:remote place

Thesaurus

remote place

English

Noun

Sense: remote place

Synonyms

Isolated town

• bump in the road
• jerkwater
• jerk-water
• jerkwater town
• one-horse town
• wide spot in the road

Isolated place

• arse end of nowhere
• back of beyond
• back forty (US)
• backcountry
• backwater
• backwoods
• beyond the black stump (Australia)
• boondock (US)
• boondocks (US)
• boonies (US)
• bumfuck middle of nowhere (vulgar, rare)
• bumfuck nowhere (vulgar)
• dullsville
• edge of the earth
• edge of the world
• ends of the earth
• ends of the world
• hinterland
• middle of nowhere
• north forty (US)
• off the beaten track
• one-horse town
• out of the way
• Squedunk
• sticks
• the sticks

Actual places

• back o' Bourke (Australia)
• Outer Mongolia
• Timbuktu

Fictional places

• Anytown
• BFE
• Bumblefuck
• Bumfuck
• Bumfuck, Egypt
• Bumfuck, Idaho
• Bumfuck, Iowa
• Bumfuck, Minnesota
• Bumfuck, Nowhere
• Bumfuck, Ohio
• Buttfuck
• East Jesus
• Hicksville
• Nowheresville
• Podunk
• Whateverville
• wop-wops (New Zealand)
• Woop Woop (Australia)

See also

• Category:Fictional locations (Wikipedia)
• Placeholder name § Geographical locations (Wikipedia)

Further reading

• “backcountry” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• “sticks” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.