Verweggistan

Dutch

Etymology

From ver weg (“far away”) + -stan, calque from English Faroffistan. First coined in Donald Duck magazine in the late 50s by Carl Fallberg. Cf. Danish Langtbortistan, Swedish Långtbortistan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛrˈʋɛɣistɑn/
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  • Hyphenation: Ver‧weg‧gi‧stan

Proper noun

Verweggistan n

  1. a proverbially obscure, far away country; Timbuktu, Outer Mongolia
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