Devil skin

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/22961

devil n My cousin has a downstairs apartment in my aunt's house. She has a little boy who often climbs the stairs and comes up to visit. The other day young Teddy came up and Aunt Marg gave him some juice and something to eat. But something in the oth- er room caught his attention and he kept climbing off the chair to go see. So one time he had just gotten off the chair and was headed out through the kitchen doorway when Aunt Marg called out to him,"Come back here, devilskin, and finish your breakfast." It was not meant as a rebuke, as such, except perhaps like you might laughingly call someone, "You're a devil, you are." She was half laughing because she couldn't get him to sit still a minute. As far as we have ever used this term, we have never really referred to the devil. It is just a term, a word which has for me the connotations of a rogue and a harm- less one at that. DNE-cit Used I and Sup Used I Used I play with the devil, PLAY, devil-ma-click, devil-ma-jig,~angel, ~birthday, ~blanket, ~feathers,~ cap, DEAD-MAN'S CAP, FAIRY, ~claw, ~fashion, FASHION,~ laughter, ~ match,~ pelt,~ pipe,~ racket, RACKET, devilskin,~ spit, SPIT, ~ thumb-print, ~ umbrella Checked by Cathy Wiseman on Mon 26 Jan 2015