swile-head codfish

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1971
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/56673

seal n Fishermen on Flat Island, Placentia Bay, believe that a swile-head codfish left on the stagehead for any length of time is a Joner. A swile-head (seal-head) codfish is one having a deformed head -possibly from being bitten by a larger fish or something like that. DNE-cit JH 6/71 [see 'seal-head cod'] - also 'bull-dog cod' [~shot, ~skin, ~skinner, ~soap, ~twine, ~vat, vat, ~bird, ~penis, cock, ~worm, cod worm, ~frame, frame] squid finger, water pup, ~fish, ~fisher, ~fishery, ~hunt, ~fishing, ~gun, ~ing gun, ~hand, ~head, ~-head cod, snub1, ~hole, blow hole, bobbing~ , ~hunter, sealer1, ~hunting, ~killer, fish killer, ~meadow, ~man, ~net, ~oil, ~pan, ~pass, ~patch, ~pelt Used I and Sup Used I 4 Used I sile, soil, swale, swile, swoil(e), bay, harbour, harp, hood, old, square filpper, square a, young, bedlamer, dotard, ragged-jacket, saddleback, turner, white-coat, pelt n, sculp n, ~bait, ~bat, bat, ~cat, ~catcher, ~dart, dart n, dog1, ~fat, ~finger Source listed in DNE as C 68-17. Not all collocations fit in field.