backveld

Etymology

From back + veld.

backveld means backward and unsophisticated rural areas. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

Backward and unsophisticated rural areas.“And how was she to know that one may live in London, or New York, a village in Yorkshire, or a dorp in the backveld […] but one behaves inevitably, inexorably, exactly like everyone else.”