Verweggistan
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editProper noun
editVerweggistan n
- a proverbially obscure, far away country; Timbuktu, Outer Mongolia