Boo-baggers

boo n Christmas or somethin' like that,you know. JW. Talking about Christmas, was _Santa Claus_ ever a frightening thing to children here? S. No. JW. What about _the Boo-baggers_,by the way? Did you hear.hear tell of these characters? S. No,I didn't. JW. What about _the Boo-man?_ Do they h...

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English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador
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spelling ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/6710 2023-12-31T10:19:29+01:00 Boo-baggers xxxx/xx/xx image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/6710 eng eng B T F66-66 = F 250 = C 290, 66-25 Edwin Short and Harold Paddock (Beaumont) References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 4845 B_4845_boo n http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/6710 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 2023-12-04T11:29:24Z boo n Christmas or somethin' like that,you know. JW. Talking about Christmas, was _Santa Claus_ ever a frightening thing to children here? S. No. JW. What about _the Boo-baggers_,by the way? Did you hear.hear tell of these characters? S. No,I didn't. JW. What about _the Boo-man?_ Do they have e'er _a Boo-man_ round Beaumont? H.P. There's ne'er a _Boo-man_ here,is there? S. No. JW. What do you have the,Harold,apart from _the Black Man?_ HP. Well I had _Boo-baggers_ [ ] in my family, you know, my Mother knew all about them! JW. Yeah. HP. She was tellin' you today. But there were no Boo-beggers [ ] in your family! (S. Sure.) Yes J. WIDDOSON [check] Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 4 Not used Phonetic transcriptions appear throughout quote; they are not transcribed here becuase the database cannot reproduce all symbols. 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
Boo-baggers
topic_facet English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
description boo n Christmas or somethin' like that,you know. JW. Talking about Christmas, was _Santa Claus_ ever a frightening thing to children here? S. No. JW. What about _the Boo-baggers_,by the way? Did you hear.hear tell of these characters? S. No,I didn't. JW. What about _the Boo-man?_ Do they have e'er _a Boo-man_ round Beaumont? H.P. There's ne'er a _Boo-man_ here,is there? S. No. JW. What do you have the,Harold,apart from _the Black Man?_ HP. Well I had _Boo-baggers_ [ ] in my family, you know, my Mother knew all about them! JW. Yeah. HP. She was tellin' you today. But there were no Boo-beggers [ ] in your family! (S. Sure.) Yes J. WIDDOSON [check] Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 4 Not used Phonetic transcriptions appear throughout quote; they are not transcribed here becuase the database cannot reproduce all symbols.
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title Boo-baggers
title_short Boo-baggers
title_full Boo-baggers
title_fullStr Boo-baggers
title_full_unstemmed Boo-baggers
title_sort boo-baggers
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url http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/6710
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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 B
T F66-66 = F 250 = C 290, 66-25
Edwin Short and Harold Paddock (Beaumont)
References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php
Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database
4845
B_4845_boo n
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