Boontling
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Boontling is a folk language spoken only in Boonville, California. Although based on English, Boontling's unusual words are completely unique to Boonville. It was invented in the late 1800s and had quite a following at the turn of the century. Now it is only spoken by aging counter-culturists and original residents. Because the town of Boonville only has a little over 700 residents, Boontling is an extremely esoteric dialect, and is quickly becoming archaic. It has over a thousand unique words and phrases.
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Boontling primer
- ab chaser - Someone who lives on the coast, an "abalone chaser." Not to be outdone, ab chasers call Boonters squirrel bacon.
- bahl - good
- belhoon - Dollar
- blooch - To chatter aimlessly. (also means to masturbate)
- Boont Dusties - The Boonville Cemetery
- bright lighter - a person from a big city
- burlap - making whoopee
- cogy - old / slow
- deek - to look at
- buckey walter - pay telephone
- Deep Ender - a person from Navarro
- dinklehonk - cow
- fogeater - See "ab chaser"
- gorm - to eat
- greymattering moshe - computer
- hyoottle - hotel
- kilockety - to travel by train
- kiloppety -to travel by horse
- kimmie - man
- moshe - machine (car when used solo)
- pike - to travel to
- teleef' - telephone
- trashmover - heavy winter storm
- weech - a small child
- zeese - coffee. Named after a man named Z. C. whose coffee, it is said, "would float an egg."
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