Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week ) : "skee horns" n. Whiskey. [ A periphrastic combination of 'skee' (whiskey) and 'horns' (drink).]
December 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week ) : "skee horns" n. Whiskey. [ A periphrastic combination of 'skee' (whiskey) and 'horns' (drink).]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) :"jeffer" n. A fire; a roaring fire on a stove or fireplace; a forest fire. [Boonter named Jeff, proprietor of an early day hotel, was noted for his building of roaring fires in the large hotel fireplace. He kept his land clear by frequent burning.]
December 3, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) :"jeffer" n. A fire; a roaring fire on a stove or fireplace; a forest fire. [Boonter named Jeff, proprietor of an early day hotel, was noted for his building of roaring fires in the large hotel fireplace. He kept his land clear by frequent burning.]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week) : " Doll " name. A Boonter who played with dolls when he was a youngster.
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week) : " Doll " name. A Boonter who played with dolls when he was a youngster.
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week ) : "dogbait" mod. Sick and nauseated, usually from excessive eating and drinking. [ An illusion to the fabled connection of dogs and they're eating of regurgitation.]
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week ) : "dogbait" mod. Sick and nauseated, usually from excessive eating and drinking. [ An illusion to the fabled connection of dogs and they're eating of regurgitation.]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week ) : "mate" n. The prudendom of either sex. [ Like 'match', based on the idea of complimentation.] This term has sexual connotations.
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week ) : "mate" n. The prudendom of either sex. [ Like 'match', based on the idea of complimentation.] This term has sexual connotations.
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : " high gun" v./n. To outdraw in a pistol duel; beat another to the draw. [ Idea of colloquial 'top gun'.] & A shotgun [ Related to "high gun" as a verb , a shotgun has a great lethal advantage at short range.]
October 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : " high gun" v./n. To outdraw in a pistol duel; beat another to the draw. [ Idea of colloquial 'top gun'.] & A shotgun [ Related to "high gun" as a verb , a shotgun has a great lethal advantage at short range.]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : "Limpin' Jesus" name. This involved name belonged to a man with a bad limp, the result of having once been shot in the leg. Locals had serious reservations about his mother's estimate of his worth, they said she thought "he was a regular Jesus."
October 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : "Limpin' Jesus" name. This involved name belonged to a man with a bad limp, the result of having once been shot in the leg. Locals had serious reservations about his mother's estimate of his worth, they said she thought "he was a regular Jesus."
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week ) : "lobo" n. A kind of meat stew. [Origin undetermined; Perhaps related to "loblolly"; see IED, VI,i,377.]
September 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week ) : "lobo" n. A kind of meat stew. [Origin undetermined; Perhaps related to "loblolly"; see IED, VI,i,377.]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word/name of the week) : "Crock" name. This man often rested by sitting on a large inverted ceramic crock.
September 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word/name of the week) : "Crock" name. This man often rested by sitting on a large inverted ceramic crock.
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : "cloudy" n. A work shoe, usually in the plural 'cloddies'. [Dialectical from 'clodhopper (see DAS). A variant form of 'cloddy'. Related to 'cludig' (rocky). Possible development corollary to 'cloddy', but based on allusion to rocks.]
September 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : "cloudy" n. A work shoe, usually in the plural 'cloddies'. [Dialectical from 'clodhopper (see DAS). A variant form of 'cloddy'. Related to 'cludig' (rocky). Possible development corollary to 'cloddy', but based on allusion to rocks.]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week) : "appeelsh" n. An apple exhibit; especially the Apple Show, the Mendocino County Fair held in Boonville each fall. [ Phonemic reshaping of 'apple show'.]
September 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week) : "appeelsh" n. An apple exhibit; especially the Apple Show, the Mendocino County Fair held in Boonville each fall. [ Phonemic reshaping of 'apple show'.]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : "mark" v. To castrate animals. [Common dialectical. ]
September 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : "mark" v. To castrate animals. [Common dialectical. ]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week) : " barlow" n. A knife; especially a pocket knife. [From the brand name Barlow, well known in the early days. See Joseph William Carr and Rupert Taylor, "Wordlist from Northwest Arkansas part 4." DN, III, 228; Green, Virginia Folk Speech p. 51]
August 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week) : " barlow" n. A knife; especially a pocket knife. [From the brand name Barlow, well known in the early days. See Joseph William Carr and Rupert Taylor, "Wordlist from Northwest Arkansas part 4." DN, III, 228; Green, Virginia Folk Speech p. 51]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : "hoot on" v. To laugh at; to ridicule; to deride. [ Combination of ' hoot' (to laugh) and commonly used merge verb element 'on'.]
August 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : "hoot on" v. To laugh at; to ridicule; to deride. [ Combination of ' hoot' (to laugh) and commonly used merge verb element 'on'.]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : " bright-lighter" n. City residents; a "city dude." [ Combination of 'bright lights' (city) and noun suffix -'er'. A city; an urban area. Allusion to concentrated electrification, especially neon signs. Dialectal see WTNID.]
August 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : " bright-lighter" n. City residents; a "city dude." [ Combination of 'bright lights' (city) and noun suffix -'er'. A city; an urban area. Allusion to concentrated electrification, especially neon signs. Dialectal see WTNID.]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week) : "bee jay" v. To repeat oneself; to repeat a phrase or last part of a phrase almost imperceptibly "under one's breath." [ A local man whose initials were B.J. had the habit of repeating under his breath what he had just said audibly.]
August 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week) : "bee jay" v. To repeat oneself; to repeat a phrase or last part of a phrase almost imperceptibly "under one's breath." [ A local man whose initials were B.J. had the habit of repeating under his breath what he had just said audibly.]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week) : " shy" v. To leave a place; cease doing something. [An adaptation of the adjective 'shy'; See WNW.] This is a very commonly used lingo word.
July 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW ( word of the week) : " shy" v. To leave a place; cease doing something. [An adaptation of the adjective 'shy'; See WNW.] This is a very commonly used lingo word.
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : "dead soldier" n. An empty whiskey bottle. [Dialectal 'dead soldier' or 'dead man'; see J.C.Ruppenthal "A Wordlist from Kansas," DN,IV, iv (1916), 322.]
July 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : "dead soldier" n. An empty whiskey bottle. [Dialectal 'dead soldier' or 'dead man'; see J.C.Ruppenthal "A Wordlist from Kansas," DN,IV, iv (1916), 322.]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : "ling" n. A language; a lingo or jargon. [Abbreviated 'lingo'.]
July 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : "ling" n. A language; a lingo or jargon. [Abbreviated 'lingo'.]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : " charlie walker" n. A photograph; a snap-shot. [ A county photographer named Charlie Walker was a much sought after early day artist.]
July 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) : " charlie walker" n. A photograph; a snap-shot. [ A county photographer named Charlie Walker was a much sought after early day artist.]
paper skull" n. A small deer; a young deer. [Descriptive combination of 'paper' and 'skull'. Young deer have very thin cranial walls.]
June 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
paper skull" n. A small deer; a young deer. [Descriptive combination of 'paper' and 'skull'. Young deer have very thin cranial walls.]
dumplin' dust" n. Flour. [A reference to the use of flour and making dumplings, and to it's dust-like consistency
June 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
dumplin' dust" n. Flour. [A reference to the use of flour and making dumplings, and to it's dust-like consistency
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week)"Clerdle" Cloverdale, a town 30 miles to the Southeast by way of the McDonald-to-the-sea highway.It was an early commercial outlet for Anderson valley, a railroad terminal, and a source of mail via the triweekly stage. [ Phonemic of 'Cloverdale'.]
June 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week)"Clerdle" Cloverdale, a town 30 miles to the Southeast by way of the McDonald-to-the-sea highway.It was an early commercial outlet for Anderson valley, a railroad terminal, and a source of mail via the triweekly stage. [ Phonemic of 'Cloverdale'.]
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) "Pine Limb" A man reportedly reacted to anyone's bad behavior saying, "He oughta to have a pine limb busted over his head." He also at 1x beaten two young miscreants with a rotten pine limb, which created more noise and flying fragments then hurt.
June 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Hugh Thedjatkozt Boontling WOW (word of the week) "Pine Limb" A man reportedly reacted to anyone's bad behavior saying, "He oughta to have a pine limb busted over his head." He also at 1x beaten two young miscreants with a rotten pine limb, which created more noise and flying fragments then hurt.