Boo-beggers; The Boo-baggers

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
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boo n JW. Now you have down here that the Boo-baggers were used with small chil- dren.I don't know who you heard these from,do you? Were they used at home? Did you.? H. Boo-beggars [ ]. The Boo-beggars [ ] again doesn't have too much specific meaning to me,because I've heard, I think,.Boo-beggars [ ].no.I.I.Boo-baggers xxxx [ ] - probably something.strange an'.an'.an' odd, xxx probably. Probably could range anything from.from lice [ ] to.Boo-beggars [ ] - 'Got Boo-beggars in your head!' [ ],you know,an' somethin' like that. That would be lice [ ] or.or .or. JW. Nothing very pleasant,anyway? H. No.It's something.something like that. Something pretty.pretty unpleasant. JW. Now the example you had here -I don't know where you got that one from - was,'Come here an( do this,because the Boo-baggers are comin' ! ' which again suggests that they're a bit like the Boo-man H.The Boo-beggars [ ],yeah.Again I may have just used that. Again I think I've heard o' that term|and it(s not.it's just. JW.An actual one for you. H. .it's just general.It's.it's not.I can't assoc- iate it with anything specific. Yes DNE-cit [check] J. WIDDOSON Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 4 Used I Source appears in DNE I as T 360-67. Phonetic transcriptions appear throughout quote; they are not transcribed here becuase the database cannot reproduce all symbols.