| Summary: | boo n A80. _Boo-darbies_. The second element in this compound is possibly derived from the word _darby_ which signifies a Christmas mummer93 - especially, if not exclusively, along the Southern Shore of the Avalon Peninsula.94 Parallels for such a compound exist in the term _Jenny-boos_ and also in the fact that _boo-bagger_ is used to refer specifically to Christmas mummers. One of the contributors to the Newfoundland Archive, however, states that the word _darby_ was used around Branch in St. Mary's Bay to mean a "scoundrel, or sly and cunning fellow". The evidence is at present too slender for a definitive etymology to be made. See cited quotation. (Card (A) (PTO) JH 7/76 Used I and Sup Used I 4 Not used See B_13504 for reverse. This is the first in a three-card series, from cards B_4900 to B_4902.
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