_She eat the gooweddy_

gold-withy An expression that I've heard around the Islington area. It means that a woman is pregnant. Some people use it to mean any woman but most people use it when referring to an unwed girl. [reverse] It is a term used to poke fun at the person. It puts the young woman on the level of a sh...

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English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland
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spelling ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/32198 2023-12-31T10:19:26+01:00 _She eat the gooweddy_ image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/32198 eng eng G 01 71 -131 Kinsley Welsh 27 Islington Heard it around Islington July 19/71 References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 14261 G_14261_gold-withy http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/32198 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:21Z gold-withy An expression that I've heard around the Islington area. It means that a woman is pregnant. Some people use it to mean any woman but most people use it when referring to an unwed girl. [reverse] It is a term used to poke fun at the person. It puts the young woman on the level of a sheep or cow because usually when animals eat gooweddy they become poisioned and their stomachs swell up. Thus when a womans stomach gets big she is said to have eaten the gooweddy. (They always say "she eat" or "she ate") DICT CEN. JW Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used This is the second half of a two-sided card. The first side is G_14260. Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI)
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topic English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
spellingShingle English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
_She eat the gooweddy_
topic_facet English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
description gold-withy An expression that I've heard around the Islington area. It means that a woman is pregnant. Some people use it to mean any woman but most people use it when referring to an unwed girl. [reverse] It is a term used to poke fun at the person. It puts the young woman on the level of a sheep or cow because usually when animals eat gooweddy they become poisioned and their stomachs swell up. Thus when a womans stomach gets big she is said to have eaten the gooweddy. (They always say "she eat" or "she ate") DICT CEN. JW Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used This is the second half of a two-sided card. The first side is G_14260.
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title _She eat the gooweddy_
title_short _She eat the gooweddy_
title_full _She eat the gooweddy_
title_fullStr _She eat the gooweddy_
title_full_unstemmed _She eat the gooweddy_
title_sort _she eat the gooweddy_
url http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/32198
genre Newfoundland
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op_source Department of Folklore
Original held in the Department of Folklore.
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore
op_relation G
01 71 -131
Kinsley Welsh 27 Islington Heard it around Islington July 19/71
References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php
Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database
14261
G_14261_gold-withy
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