Timbuktu
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /tɪm.bʌkˈtuː/
- A city in central Mali.
- Any proverbially distant or remote place.
- You can try every shop from here to Timbuktu, but you won't find another one like this.
- 1970. The Aristocats (film):
- Now, my little pesky pets, you're going to travel first-class in your own private compartment all the way to Timbuktu. And this time, you'll never come back.
- French: Tombouctou
- German: Timbuktu
- Portuguese: Tombuctu
- Russian: Тимбукту́
- Spanish: Tombuctú
- French: Tombouctou, Pétaouchnock
- German: Buxtehude
- Portuguese: Cochinchina
- Russian: тьмутарака́нь
- Spanish: en el quinto pino, en el quinto infierno, el culo del mundo, en la otra punta, en la quinta puñeta, donde Cristo perdió el gorro
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