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Boon (game), a trick-taking card game Boon, a 1915 satirical work by H. G. Wells; Boon, a British television series starring Michael Elphick; The Ultimate Boon, a stage in Joseph Campbell's hero's journey or monomyth
A road in the boondocks of Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 13, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. The boondocks is an American expression from the Tagalog (Filipino) word bundók ("mountain").
Boon is a surname that can be of Dutch, Old French or Chinese origin. The rather common Dutch name Boon ( Dutch pronunciation: [boːn] ) often represents a patronymic , where the given name Boon was a short form of Boudewijn , Bonifacius or Bonaventure .
Boon or Af-Boon is a nearly extinct Cushitic language spoken by 59 people (as of 2000) in Jilib District, Middle Jubba Region of southern Somalia. In recent decades they have shifted to the Maay dialect of Jilib.
The American Dream Meadowlands has been criticized as a boondoggle. [10]The term "boondoggle" may also be used to refer to protracted government or corporate projects involving large numbers of people and usually heavy expenditure, where at some point, the key operators, having realized that the project will never work, are still reluctant to bring this to the attention of their superiors.
The ultimate boon is the achievement of the goal of the quest. It is what the hero went on the journey to get. All the previous steps serve to prepare and purify the hero for this step since in many myths the boon is something transcendent like the elixir of life itself, or a plant that supplies immortality, or the holy grail. Campbell confers that
Boonwurrung is one of the Kulin languages, and belongs to the Pama-Nyungan language family. [4] The ethnonym occasionally used in early writings to refer to the Bunwurrung, namely Bunwurru, is derived from the word bu:n, meaning "no" and wur:u, signifying either "lip" or "speech". [5]
The word is a Guaraní word meaning "pig-skin" that originated during the War of the Triple Alliance between Paraguay and Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, in which Argentine soldiers wore pig-skin coats. The term has lost much of its derogatory connotation and is now used fairly regularly in place of the word "Argentine."