boondockers

[Grant Barrett]

On Monday, May 1, 2000, Jimmie C Ellis <msjce1 at JUNO.COM> wrote:
>Must disagree re 'boondockers:'  These refer to the boots issued in boot
>camp (definitedly NOT cowboy type).  They are intended for long marches
>into the 'boondocks.'  I was acdu Navy 1974-1994, HMC, retired.

My father always referred to the boots my brother and I wore as boys as
boondockers or clodhoppers. He was in the Army for three years in the late
Sixties. I remember them being much like the generic Timberlands worn today,
only with a padded cuff and hooks for laces, not eyelets.

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Grant Barrett
gbarrett at americandialect.org