bully boo

bully2 n _Bully Boo_ This term, which is also used to refer to a dirty or untidy person, a person with dirty or untidy hair, a fuzzy object such as a ball of fluff or hair, and also to lice, nasal mucus and other unpleasant concepts, is reported from a number of places on the East Coast and also fro...

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Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published: 1976
Subjects:
English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/11588
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Summary:bully2 n _Bully Boo_ This term, which is also used to refer to a dirty or untidy person, a person with dirty or untidy hair, a fuzzy object such as a ball of fluff or hair, and also to lice, nasal mucus and other unpleasant concepts, is reported from a number of places on the East Coast and also from Central Newfoundland and Labrador. A70.1. "I'll give you to the.Bully-boo." (Red Bay, Lab.) Q67-808. A70.2. "Bully-boo is comin'!".that was the Devil. (Beaumont South) T C301,66-25. A70.3. "Here's the Bully-boo" or.whatever they might call him now. Sometimes you'd say Bully-boo and more times you'd say the Black Man. (Beaumont South) T C301,66-25. See cited quotation. Yes DNE-cit jh 7/76 (PTO) Used I Used I Used I See B_13620 for reverse.

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