andurrial

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Spanish

FWOTD – 25 February 2015

Etymology

Unknown. Proposed etymologies include:

First attested c. 1464-1474 (see quotations).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /anduˈrjal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: an‧du‧rrial

Noun

andurrial m (plural andurriales)

  1. (usually in the plural) the bush (remote, undeveloped area); the backcountry; the sticks; the middle of nowhere
    • c. 1464-1474, Coplas de Mingo Revulgo, Spain:
      andase tras los zagales
      por esos alla andurriales
      todo el dia enbebeçido
      holgazando sin sentido
      q non cura de nros males.
      He wandered among the swains
      through the sticks over there
      drunk all day
      lazing around aimlessly
      not curing our ailments.
    • 1615, Miguel de Cervantes, “Capítulo II”, in El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, Segunda parte:
      Idos a la vuestra, hermano, que vos sois, y no otro, el que destrae y sonsaca a mi señor, y le lleva por esos andurriales.
      Be off to your own, brother, for it is you, and no one else, that delude my master, and lead him astray, and take him tramping about the country.

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