Boontling: A Glossary

airtight: “no problem.”
Also: a sawmill

applehead: girl, girlfriend

bahl: good

barlow: pocketknife

belhoon: a dollar

bilchin: having sex with

bloocher: one who chatters aimlessly or masturbates

boarch: Chinese male

booker tee: Black man

bookers: Black people

bow for: have sex with
(“bow” as in “violin bow”)

Bulrusher: foundling, illegitimate child

burlap: have sex with

buzzchick: baseball

can-kicky: angry

chucks: dull or unruly children

cocked darley: habitually angry

comb’s gettin red: puberty

cut cabbage: a Black woman, the feeling of her vagina

daming: womanizing

dehigged: broke, without money

dish: cheat

doolsey boo: sweet potato

dove cooey: lonely

dubs: double

ear settin: a lecture

fiddlers: delirium tremens
(“the DTs”)

flag’s out: menstruating

flattened: sick

flories: biscuits

Fourth of Jeel: Fourth of July

geechin: penetration

golden eagles: underwear
(made from Golden Eagle brand flour sacks)

gorm: food

greeney: a fit, a temper tantrum

grizz: old bachelor

harp: talk

heel scratchin: sex

heisted: pregnant

highgun: shotgun

high shams: thick brush

hobbin: dancing

hoot: laugh

horn and chiggle: food and drink
(the verb “horn” means “to drink”)

ink-standy: tired

jackers: young men who masturbate

jape: drive

jenny: snitch

jimhead: confused

Joe Mack: to beat someone up

jonnems: tall tales

lews ’n larmers: gossip

ling: Boontling

lizzied: pregnant

locked: married

madges: prostitutes

mink: woman
(usually of easy morals, well dressed enough to afford mink)

moldunes: breasts

moshe: automobile
(rhymes with “gauche”)

mossy: change the subject

Navarro: Bulrusher’s river; main waterway west to the ocean

nonch harpin: dirty talk

pearlin: raining

pike: road

Philo: a neighboring rival town
(pronounced ”FY-low“)

put in on: to court

ricky chow: sexual intercourse

ridgy: backwoodsy

roger: storm

rooje: cheat
(pronounced like “rouge”)

rout: scold

Schoolch: short for school teacher

scottied: hungry

shike: beat someone in a deal
(rhymes with “like”)

silent seeker: quiet, unobtrusive seducer

skee: whiskey

somersettin: to become emotionally upset

sneeble: Black person

stringy hair and wrinkle socks: an unkempt woman

sulled: angered

tarp: pudendum of either sex

teet lipped: angry

that’s earth: that’s the truth

tidrey: a little bit

tongue-cuppy: nauseous, to vomit

toobs: two bits, a quarter

tuddish: mentally disabled
(same vowels as “rubbish”)

tweed: child

upper-cuttin: fist fight

warblin: singing

weese: infant

wess: exaggerate

whittlin: politicking

yink: young man