boo-bagger/boo-begger

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/9100

boo n A77.52. Parents often tell their children the. "Boo-baggers" will get them if they aren't good. (Gander) Q67-585. A77.53. Some names I have heard told to children are Boo-baggers. This is a bery common one in Milltown. It is usually said that if a child does not do something which his parents want him to do, the "Boo-baggers" will get him. (Milltown) Q67-362. A77.54. If children were naughty or wanted to do some- thing or go somewhere against their parents' approval, they were usually threatened by the adults. They were told that the.Boo-Bagger would get them. This terrified the children so that they often imagined these weird creatures looming in the dark and thus became petrified when alone in the dark. (Lewisporte) Q67-750. A77.55. To make children behave themselves they are sometimes threatened that the.Boobaggers are going to have them. (Woody Island) Q67-46. See cited quotation. Card (G), p.292 (PTO) Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 4 Not used See B_13503 for reverse. This is the last in a seven-card series, from cards B_4891 to B_4897.