boo-darbies

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/9985

boo n A80.1. My five year old brother was taught and expected to obey at all times but like most kids he occasionally disobeyed, when mother would step in and say, "Now Tommy, you do like you're told or under the steps95 you go where the Boo-Darby is ready for bad little boys." At this remark Tommy would become more attentive and say, "Mom! What's he like? Will he eat me? Have he got horns?" Mother (cont'd on (B)) _________________________________________________ 93See B8 below. 94See E.R. Seary, G.M. Story and W.J. Kirwin, _The Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland_ (Ottawa, 1968), p. 112, and J.D.A. Widdowson, "Mummering and Janneying" in Halpert and Story, Appendix II, p. 221. 95"Under the steps" usually refers to the cupboard or area under the stairs inside the house. (cont'd on (B)) Used I and Sup Used I 4 Not used This is the reverse of B_4900. It is the first in a three-card series, from cards B_4900 to B_4902.