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| Ab | to push in line |
| Abalone | Albion |
| Abaloneyite | a coast dweller |
| Ab chaser | a resident of the coastal area |
| Abe | a female dog or an irritable or low woman |
| Afe | an anal emission of intestinal gas or a fart or to break wind |
| Airtight | a sawmill |
| Ale | a letter for the mails |
| Almittey | a burp |
| Anyhow | a well known saloon built just outside Boonville School District after a local "dry" laws were passed in 1906 |
| The Anytime | A famous Boonville saloon before "dry" laws were instated |
| Apleesh | an apple exhibit. The Apple Show of Mendocino County Fair held in Boonville each Fall |
| Aplenty Bahl Steinber Horn | Really great glass of beer |
| Appelder | an apple drier |
| Apple-head | Young girl, or a girlfriend |
| Ark | to wreck; to damage severely; to destroy |
| Arker | an immigrant from Arkansas; an "arkie" an immigrant from upper - South or Midwest |
| Arkin' | a wreck an automobile collision any wrecking project or session |
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| Backdated chuck | A backward, ill-informed person - naive and stupid |
| Bahl | Good; of excellent quality |
| Bahler | Anyone or anything of unquestionably good quality |
| Bahlest | excellent, best, or great |
| Bahlness | An exceptionally attractive woman |
| Baldies | The bald hills a series of high hills in north east of Boonville |
| Bally Crick | a tributary to Anderson Creek |
| Ban | One of the developers of boontling |
| Barkel Water | A valley man who habitually asks for Barkel Water |
| Barl | To shoot a gun |
| Barlow | A knife or a pocket knife |
| Barney | To embrace or hug; to kiss; to "smooch" |
| Barney Flats | The Hindy Woods State Park in Anderson Valley |
| Barney lamirerz | Leather leggings;lace on leggings such as wore in WWI |
| Barney man | A cowboy |
| Barney | Cowboy boots; western riding boots |
| Bat | To masturbate |
| Batter | A bachelor |
| Batter | One who masturbates |
| Batter shack | A bachelor's house |
| Burk | An active aggressive person; one who is difficult to manage |
| Bearman | A spellbinder |
| Beartrack | bear dung, a pile of bear excreta |
| Beartrack | Berry cobbler; berry pie |
| Bear Waller | A wooded area south of Boonville |
| Bee Hunter | A valley girl, when she had been on a date and was asked where she had been, would reply evasively that she had been "bee huntin" |
| Bee jay | To repeat oneself; to repeat a phrase or last part of a phrase almost imperceptibly |
| Beakin | A large valley man |
| Beekinje | an Indian; especially a male |
| Beekinje Crick | Indian creek |
| Beelech | Sexual intercourse; sexual gratification |
| Beemsh | A show; an entertainment; a spectacle, program, or exhibition |
| Bee'n | The buttocks |
| Beeson Dusties | a saddle; esp a ridding saddle |
| Beeson-tree man | A man from Anderson Valley; A valley horseback rider |
| Beleegr'n Below ground | underground |
| Belhoon | A dollar |
| Beljeek | A black tailed rabbit |
| Beljeemer | A dog trained to hunt rabbits |
| Belk Region | Bell Valley |
| Belk-Bell Valley | a narrow valley six miles north of Boonville on the Ukiah Road |
| Belker | A resident of Bell Valley |
| Big Basement | A large basin north of Bell Valley |
| Big Bay Mares | Two local women sisters who were large and rangy |
| Big Bend | A large hairpin bend in Rancheria Creek |
| Big book | The bible |
| Big Crick | Anderson Creek |
| Big end | To strike out in baseball |
| Big Holler | A large basin in the hills |
| Big Sorry | A Boonter who felt sorry for himself and often expressed his melancholy publicly |
| Bilch | Same as beelech |
| Bilg | A male goat |
| Bilg moshe | A trail scooter |
| Bill nunn | pancake syrup |
| Billy ryan | A small sharp goatee |
| Blevans | An amateur carpenter |
| Blooch | To chatter aimlessly |
| Blooch | Same as bat |
| Bloocher | Anyone who chatters nonsense |
| Blood 'n hair | An automobile accident |
| Blue bird | To throw a rider (horse rider) |
| Blue birdin' | A bronco |
| Blue grass | Whiskey |
| Bluejay | A resident of Philo, in lower Philo |
| Bluejay convention | A meeting in Philo |
| Bluejay Regon | Vicinity of Philo |
| Blue Slide | A talus slide of bluish rock near the upper end of Anderson Valley |
| Blue tail | a rattlesnake |
| Boar | a combining stem used in several phonemically reshaped colors |
| Boarch | A Chinese esp. A Male |
| Boarch | to enjoy any thing repeatedly |
| Boarch dom | a Chinese pheasant |
| Boarch fever | Asian flu. A recent coinage |
| Boark | A Jew esp. a male Jew |
| Boarp | A pig esp. a male pig |
| Boarp | Any pig product... bacon, ham |
| Boarp | pancake syrup |
| Boarp Brothers | two brothers ate a large amount of food |
| Boarsk | a skunk esp. a male skunk |
| Bohoik | A load, hearty laugh |
| Bohoik | a loud laughing man |
| Boo | potato |
| Booker | A black person |
| Booker cat | A raccoon |
| Booker tee | A black person |
| Bookey | This local man was a book keeper |
| Boont | Boonville |
| Boont | To express anything about Boonville |
| Boont butter | A thick gravy |
| Boont Dusties | the boonville cemetery |
| Boonter | A resident of Boonville or a person who knows Boontling |
| Boontling | A boonville language in which you are reading the dictionary of |
| Bootjack | A coyote |
| Boshe | A deer; deer (plural) |
| Boshe | To hunt deer |
| Boshe-bird time | The spring season |
| Boshe gun | A deer rifle |
| Boshe haireem | a deer dog |
| Bosher | A deer hunter |
| Boshin' tidrick | A deer hunting trip |
| Bow for | to engage in sexual intercourse. Always used with some word which alludes to the object in abstract terms, such as bilch, yeast powder... |
| Bowgley | A serious untruth; a whopper |
| Bow for | To become angry with |
| Bow on | same as bow for |
| Branch | To leave a place |
| Branch | To commit adultery |
| Branchin' | Adultery |
| Brandin' irons | handcuffs |
| Breggo | a sheep |
| Bright | lighter; city resident a city dude |
| Bright lights | A city |
| Briney | To hit a home run |
| The Briney | Pacific Ocean |
| Briney glimmer | A light house |
| Briney tomker | A sea lion |
| Briney Pike | The MacDonald's to the Sea Highway |
| Broadie; broadey | A cow |
| Brushy opener | A homesteader |
| Brusy Openins' | An area SW of Boonville |
| Buckery | A boonter whose name was buckram |
| Bucky | A nickle |
| Bucky duster | A card game which nickles are gambled |
| Buckeye | To loaf |
| Buckeyein' moshe | A labor saving devise |
| Buckey walter | A pay telephone |
| The Buckhorn | One of Boonville's early saloons |
| Buck pasture | A man whose wife who is in advanced pregnancy |
| Buff | A local man who is heavy or muscular |
| Bullish | Worthless talk |
| Bull taish | same as bullish |
| Bulrusher | An Illegitimate child |
| Burl | To have a sexual intercourse |
| Burlap | To have sexual intercourse twice |
| Burlappin' | Same as burl |
| Burlin' region | Any place you have a sexual intercourse |
| Burt stork | A man in a unusually large family |
| Buzzard | A boonter who lived in the high country near Boonville |
| Buzz chick | Baseball. |
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| Calgeery | One of the velvet sisters who traveled to Canada |
| Cam'n Tooley | A large mill during the lumber-boom period |
| Campy grind | An especially good job of sharpening an ax or other cutting tool |
| Camtooly | A saw mill |
| Can-kicky | Angry; or disgusted |
| Candeel | Government employment |
| Cardy | To prepare |
| Carton of dominoes | A box of matches |
| Cassie | A poor housekeeper |
| Cat | A boonter whose initials were C.A.T |
| Cress Pool | A former Boonville bar |
| Chapport | A vest or a coat |
| Charl | To milk a cow |
| Charlie | To embarrass |
| Charlie ball | Same as charlie |
| Charlie balled | To blush |
| Charlie brown | A pie |
| Charlie walker | A photographer |
| Chiggle | To eat; food |
| Chiggrul | Same as chiggle |
| Chinese meal | Sexual intercourse |
| Chipmunk | To hoard |
| Chipmunk | A collector |
| Chippin | A screw up |
| Choppy | This Boonter's speech came in short, explosive bursts |
| Chuck | A dull or unruly child |
| Chuckish | Dull-witted |
| Chucklehead | An ignorant, naive person |
| Chuck robinson | Anyone who works habitually behind schedule |
| Clerdle | Cloverdale |
| Cloddy | A work shoe |
| Cloudy | same as cloddy |
| Cloudy sale | A shoestore |
| Clout sale | A clothing store |
| Cock | To become angry |
| Cock a fister on | To get in a fight |
| Cocked darley | Angry as a matter of daily habit |
| Cockin' match | A scolding; an angry |
| Cock on | To become angry |
| Codgy | Old |
| Codggywood | Old age |
| Collar-jumpy | Irritable; nervous |
| Comb's gittin'red | An expression |
| Come-on boy | A convivial, social drinker |
| Con | Tuberculosis |
| Cork Leg | A large quarts ledge cut by the Ukiah Road between Boonville and Bell Valley |
| Corners | The conjunction of the Ukiah Road |
| Cow-skully | Desolate |
| Cow-skullsey | Deserted |
| Crayzeek | Crazy wild |
| Croakin's | A funeral |
| Croppy fetcher | A sheep dog; sometimes a sheep killer |
| Croppy hedgin's | Wool |
| Croppy stringer | A sheep killer, like a coyote |
| Cuffey | To clog |
| Cut cabbage | The female pudendum |
| Cutey | A stylish local baseball player |
| Cutey's Diggin's | A mineral claim near Philo |
| Cy miller | A wild goose chase |
| Cy millered | Lost, frantically confused. |
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| Dame | A wife |
| Damin' | Going with girls |
| Darlin' | An affectionate boonter |
| Daylighter | To have a sexual intercourse during the day |
| Deacon | A man who was a deacon in the Boonville Church |
| Dead soldier | A empty whiskey bottle |
| Dead wagon | A hearse |
| Dear charlie | A request for help or a favor |
| Dee | For dialectal usage |
| Deeble | To castrate |
| Deeble 'n' deetlin' | A work session in which lambs are castrate |
| Deed | dead |
| Deejer | A degenerate; anyone dirty |
| Deejy | Degenerate |
| Deek | To look |
| Deem | A dime |
| Deep Enders | Residents of the town of Navarro |
| Deetle | To cut off a lambs tail |
| Dehigged | Without money |
| Demoshed | Without a car |
| Desurger | A male sheath |
| Devil's Elbow | A hairpin curve in the Ukiah road |
| Dewey | A boonter who was nicknamed throughout his relationships |
| Dick | To cheat |
| Diddle can | A bottle of whiskey |
| Didoes | To doodle on a piece of paper |
| Diggersk | A squirrel that digs |
| Dime | A man who was a proprietor of "The Dime Store" |
| Dinklehonk | A cowbell |
| Dirty neck | A person who is physically dirty |
| Dish | To crowd out |
| Dissies | Shoe with metal buckles |
| Dissie stool | off liquor |
| Document | A letter |
| Dagbait | Sick and nauseated |
| Doll | To foul up |
| Dollish | Messy unkempt |
| Dom | A chicken |
| Dom-gormin' region | A picnic ground area |
| Dom-gormin' tidrick | A picnic; with fried chicken |
| Dom-on-the-saddlehorn | Payment for sexual favors |
| Doolsey | candy |
| Doolsey poo | Sweet potato |
| Dove-cooey | Lonely; deserted |
| Drearies | The Bald Hills, a series of mountains northeast of Boonville |
| Dreef | A husband who has no children |
| Dreef | To jump about nervously |
| Dreek | To beat or whip |
| Dreekin' | A beating |
| Dry hide | Dry skin |
| Dubs | Two of anything |
| Dubs | To double |
| Dublin'dust | Flour |
| Dusties | A graveyard |
| Dwight's flagpole | The large flag pole in Boonville. |
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| Eagle Sisters | The daughters of
grey Eagle |
| Ear-settin' | A scolding |
| Earth | Truth |
| Eeble | Eyeball |
| Eeble | To scrutinize |
| Eeble's Appelder | A large apple-drier |
| Ee-flat | Off key |
| Eelld | Old |
| Eeld'm | a old woman |
| Eelk | An old crow |
| Eelst | Any old male |
| Eelstig | An old man |
| Eesle | The butt |
| Ee tah | An exclamation |
| Ess-eye | To make an official survey of boundary |
| Ex | To vote |
| Eye of the Needle | A conspicuous pass on the Ukiah road. |
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| Fairbs | A physically dirty person |
| Fairbis Hill | The Fairbanks Hill |
| Fair 'n right | To lend money |
| Featherleg | A cocky belligerent person |
| Featherleggy | cocky belligerent |
| Fence-jumpin' | Adultery |
| Fence-jumpy | Given to adultery |
| Fetch | To get the best of someone |
| Fiddlers | Delirium tremens |
| Fisters | A fist fight |
| Flag's out | Usually accompanied |
| Flattened | Sick |
| Flories | Light bread |
| Floyd hutsel | a kerosene lantern |
| Fog-eater | Pejorative designations |
| Forbes | A half-doller |
| Fourth of Jeel | The Fourth of July |
| Foxy Grandpa | An elderly minister in the early days |
| Frattey | Wine |
| Frattey shams | Grapevines |
| Frisk | A boonter's name |
| Frog Mouth | A frog |
| Fuzzeek | A peach |
| Fuzzy | A boonter who played for a baseball team |
| Fuzzy tail | A horse. |
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| ganno | An apple |
| Garrey | A California quail |
| Garibaldey | A valley quail |
| Geech | To penetrate the vagina |
| Gorge bee | To trap animals |
| George bee | To run a trap line |
| Glimmer | A kerosene lamp |
| Glimmers | Reading glasses |
| Glow worm | same as glimmer |
| Gult | A wooden edge |
| Golden eagles | Woman's garments |
| Gorm | To eat |
| Gormer | An eater |
| Gormin' region | A kitchen |
| Gorms | Under circumstances |
| Gorm sale | A restaurant |
| Gourd | A violin |
| Gourd | To play a violin |
| Gourder | A fiddle player |
| Grannyhatchet | A buck with unusually large antlers |
| Greeney | A tantrum |
| Greeley | A newspaper |
| Greyb | A old man |
| Gray-matter kimme | A scholar |
| Greysk | A grey squirrel |
| Greysk haireem | Tree squirreled dog |
| Grizz | An old bachelor |
| Grizzleeber | A bear. |
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| Haines-crispin | A feud |
| Hair buryin' | A shivaree |
| Haireem | A dog |
| Haireemsker | A hybrid dog |
| Hairk | A haircut |
| Hairy-horn | A buck |
| Halvers | A condom |
| Hangin' higher n' bolley's fiddle | No longer of use |
| Hardies | Gloves |
| Hark | To make a mistake |
| Harp | To talk |
| Harper | A talker |
| Harpin's | Talk |
| Harpin' tidrick | A talk-fest |
| Hedge | To cut someones hair |
| Hedge | A barber |
| Hedger | A shearer |
| Hedgin's | Hair or wool |
| Heefus | A person with small hips |
| Heefus | A person who doesn't act responsibly |
| Heelch | A large quantity, the whole amount of something |
| Heel scratchin' | sexual intercourse |
| Heerjick | Distension of the phallus |
| Heese | A high school |
| Heese teach | A school teacher |
| Heisted | Pregnant |
| Hen eggs' n oval | To wright |
| Hewtle | A hotel |
| Hig | A doller |
| Higgery | A bank |
| Higgs | Money |
| Higgy | Wealthy |
| High | Under the influence of drugs |
| Higher'n a billy | Very drunk |
| Higher 'n bolley's fiddle | Neglected |
| Higher 'n dwight's flagpole | Same as higher'n a billy. |
| High git | To become drunk |
| High gitter | An alcoholic |
| High gittin | Drunkenness |
| High gun | A shotgun |
| High heel | A peace officer |
| High heel | To cite for a violation of the law |
| High heeler | A officer of the law |
| Highpockets | A large man |
| Highpockety | Wealthy |
| High Rollers | Residents of the town of Yorkville, the smallest town in Anderson Valley |
| High shams | A area covered with high thick brush |
| High split | A very tall slender man |
| Higler | A dollar |
| Hipshot | Lame in the hip joint |
| Hipshot nancy | A lame person |
| Hit the moldune trail | To have a affair with a woman |
| Hob | A shoe |
| Hob | A dance |
| Hob | To dance |
| Hobber | A dancer |
| Hobneelch | To dance |
| Hobneelch region | A area were a dance is held |
| Hog butcher'n limpin' | Jesus |
| Hog rings | A female with a large vagina |
| Hood | An odd person |
| Hoot | To laugh |
| Hooter | One who laughs |
| Hooter | A laughing hyena |
| Hoot on | To laugh on |
| Horn | A drink; to drink; a cup |
| Horner | A drinker |
| Hornin' region | A bar |
| How | A steel splitting wedge |
| Huge | Large |
| Huge arker | A large bomb |
| Huger | Anything large of size |
| Huge tomker | A mountain lion |
| Hurdy-gurdy | A carnival |
| Husk | To masturbate |
| Husker | A masturbater. |
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| Ike | A large pocket watch |
| Ike | A turnip |
| Ink stands | Hemorrhoids |
| Ink-standy | Exhausted |
| In the sisters | Having antlers still in the velvet protection and nurturing sheath |
| Iron moshe | A locomotive |
| Itch neemer | A person who no longer is on alcohol |
| Ite vault | A bank. |
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| Jacker | A young man |
| Jacker | One who masturbates |
| Jackers gourd | A picket fence |
| Jake-legged | Being unable to control the legs completely |
| Jake's boy | A baseball pitcher |
| Jape | To drive |
| Japer | A driver |
| Jay esser | A lawsuit |
| Jay hawk | To peel tan bark as high as possible on a standing tree |
| Jay hawker | One who peels the tan bark for trees without falling them |
| Jeansheep | A black sheep |
| Jeekle | A mixed up schedule |
| Jeekus | A mule |
| Jeekus | Brandy |
| Jeffer | A large fire (a Boonter named Jeff built large fires in his fireplace) |
| Jenney | A tattletale |
| Jenny | To tattle |
| Jimhead | A Confused person |
| Jimheady | Confused |
| Jimmies | Men's sleeve holders |
| Jinksheep | A black sheep |
| Joe mack | To whip or beat |
| Joe ride | A fast furious ride |
| Jonnem | A tall tale. |
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| Kai | A coyote |
| Kaishbook | pregnant |
| Kaydee | A hat or cap |
| Keeborb | Premature |
| Keemwun keemle | A call |
| Kerk | To urinate |
| Kick rocks | To do anything futile |
| Kilokety | To travel by train |
| Kiloppety | To travel by a horse-drawn vehicle |
| Kimmie | Come over here |
| Kimmoshe | A device to sharpen sheep sheers |
| Kingster | A large church building |
| Knucklehead | A girl |
| Kraisey | A mix up. |
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| Lamb fries | Lambs testicles |
| Larrup | To beat; to whip |
| Lassin' | a vest |
| Laychee | Milk. |
| Leeber | A grizzly bear |
| Leeber region | Any wild area |
| Leek | to look; to see |
| Leek bee'n | A warning issued in a moment of peril |
| Lengthy | A female deer |
| Lews 's larmers | Gossip |
| Ling | A language |
| Lip-splittin' | A fist fight |
| Little Crick | Also known as Bally Crick |
| Livvie cambles | Rubber knee boots |
| Lizzard | A skid for removing large game |
| Lizzied | Pregnant |
| Lobo | A meat stew |
| Lock | Marriage |
| Lockin' | A wedding |
| Log-lifter | A heavy rainstorm |
| Low desk | To conduct business |
| Low deskin' | Business |
| Loweezies | Soda biscuits |
| Lurk | A lunch. |
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| Madge | A prostitute or to use prostitutes |
| Madge house | A brothel |
| Mark | To castrate animals |
| Markin' | A work session in which animals were castrated in large numbers |
| Marshal | A weather sheep |
| Martin issac | A power cross-cut saw |
| Match | A contest |
| Match | The pendendum of either sex |
| Mate | The pendendum of either sex |
| Mate groomin; | The practice of oral or genital contacts |
| Mert's sister | Clumsy |
| Milky | Foggy |
| Mink | A girl |
| Missit | A small slice |
| Modocker | An animal or person |
| Moldune | A very large female |
| Moldunes | Breasts |
| Mollies | Same as moldunes |
| Molly | A doe deer |
| Molly | A dime |
| Molly gormin' | Having oral contacts with female breasts |
| Monk | To edge someone out of a deal |
| Monty in | To concentrate on anything |
| Moosty | A mustache |
| Moshe | A machine |
| Mossy | A kitchen |
| Mossy | To change the subject of something |
| Mouse ear | A woman with a narrow vagina, |
| Mowkeef | To make hay |
| Muzz crick | Running. |
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| Neeble | No good |
| Neebles | Anything castrated |
| Neef | One who has lost a finger |
| Neemer | No more |
| Nettied | Fancily dressed |
| Netty | To dress fancy |
| Nickelonk | To play cards |
| Non | To say "no" |
| Nonch | Bad |
| Nocher | A sheep with poor quality wool |
| Noch harpin' | Bad language |
| Noch neemer | One who has sworn off liquor |
| Non on | To criticize |
| Nook | A home site. |
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| Oje | To masturbate |
| Old kai | A coyote |
| On | A combining element in merged herbs |
| Ose | The buttocks |
| Ose-draggy | Extremely tired |
| Ose pocket | Rear pocket |
| Ose wipin's | Toilet paper |
| Ot | To work hard |
| Otto | To work hard. |
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| Packem-out billies | Dirty men's socks |
| Pail | To milk a cow |
| Paint brush | A small mustache |
| Paper skull | A small deer |
| Paul ray sock | A fancy suit |
| Peerl | To drizzle |
| Pickem up | One who habitually starts fights |
| Pickem up billies | Dirty socks |
| Pike | To travel; a road or trail |
| Pike to the dusties | To die |
| Pinchy | Stingy |
| Pleeble | To play ball |
| Plenty | Very |
| Plenty white | Snow |
| Poleeko | Philo. The second largest town in Anderson Valley |
| Pothead | A unattractive girl |
| Prince me | A mans suit |
| Prince me shadah clout | A mans dress suit |
| Prohi | A prohibitionist |
| Pusseek | A cat |
| Put it on | To begin courting. |
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| Rack | A raccoon |
| Rag | To dance |
| Ragger | One who prefers jazz music |
| Raggin' | Dancing contemporary |
| Ramps | A lunge |
| Rawncher | Anything large in size |
| Reel | A relative |
| reelf | A rail fence |
| Region | A place |
| Relf | Same as reelf |
| Ricky chow | A sexual intercourse |
| Ridgy | Old decrepit |
| Ridgy | Backward |
| Roajer; Rodger | A big storm |
| Rooje | To cheat |
| Roojin' | A bad deal |
| Rookyto | A valley quail |
| Roopey | A cowboy |
| Roopey harpin' | Empty talk |
| Roopey stag | Same as roopey |
| Root | To fall |
| Rosy | Red wine |
| Rout | To scold heavily |
| Routin | A harsh scolding |
| Rout the kimmie in the boat | To get a female pregnant |
| Rubberneck | To eavesdrop on a party telephone line |
| Rude eye | To hit a home run in baseball |
| Rudy nebs | Pristine, mineral rich, well water; like that used in the production
of the Boonville Beers. |
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| Sahdah clout | A man's suit |
| Saddle blanket | A hot cake' pancake |
| Sale | A saloon; any commercial sales establishment |
| Schoolch | A schoolteacher |
| Scottied | Hungry |
| Scotty | A heavy eater |
| Scratcher | A chain saw |
| Scrouge | To have sexual intercourse, esp. with extraordinary contact |
| Secesh | A secessionist; a Southern sympathizer in the Civil War |
| Seeker | A woman-chaser |
| Seep | Port wine |
| Seep horner | One who esp. likes and drink wine |
| Seep horns | Wine; port wine |
| Seep's Diggin's | A mining claim just off the Poor Way a mile or so
from the Corners |
| Seepy | Lethargic; under narcotic effects of drink |
| Seerge; Seerje | Gonorrhea |
| Seertle | A "fishskin" condom; any such device regardless of composition |
| Seertle; Sertle | A fish of any kind; To fish for any type of fish |
| Serowlsh | Anything which is no good. Used as an exclamation, a pejorative, to denigrate anything, esp. a statement or claim |
| Set 'n ear | To scold |
| Shag | To stumble; to move awkwardly |
| Shaggish | Clumsy; poorly coordinated |
| Shams | Brush; esp. chamise or chamisal brush found in abundance in California's Coastal Range |
| Shark | To get the best of another in competition; to "stump" another Boonter on a lingo neologism |
| Sharkin' match | A card game; a lingo session in which several new words were tried out |
| Sharsh | To shear sheep |
| Sharshin' match | A sheep-shearing session or speed competition |
| Shattaquaw | A talk fest; a conversation involving several people |
| Shavin' knocker | a youngster |
| Shay | To shed, as of leaves or feathers |
| She booker | A female black |
| Shike | To out-trade; to beat someone in a deal |
| Shiv | A shivaree |
| Shods | Clothes, esp. those of poor quality and poor fit |
| Short ling; short lang | Boontling; the Boonville lingo |
| Shotgun | To scatter by running or flying |
| Shoveltooth | A medical doctor; a physician |
| Shy | To leave a place; to cease doing something
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| Side-hill seertle | A deer, esp. one killed out of season |
| Sifter | A watermelon |
| Sig | A cigarette |
| Sike | To travel on horseback |
| Sike | A horse |
| Sike pike | A horse trail |
| Silent fister | Anyone who does another harm |
| Silent horner | An alcoholic who drinks alone |
| Silent seeker | A "ladies man" |
| Skee | Whiskey |
| Skee horner | A whiskey drinker |
| Skee horns | Whiskey |
| Skiddley | Doubtful |
| Skip | To miss or drop a fly ball in baseball |
| Skraije | To knife in the back with a twisting |
| Skype | A preacher |
| Skipe | To preach |
| Skype region | A church |
| Skypin | A camp revival |
| Slib | A slice |
| Slider | A anal emission of gas which is released carefully and silently |
| Slow lope'n a beeson tree | An expression which donates
a relaxed air in which everything is going well |
| Slug | To sleep |
| Sluggin' nook | A bedroom |
| Smalch | coins |
| Smeel | small |
| Smeelch | Small change |
| Smeelch | To make a small lone |
| Sneeble | A black person |
| Sneebles | Low cut |
| Socker | Anything big |
| Sol | The sun |
| Sol's grandmother | Dead |
| Somerset | To become emotionally upset |
| Son of abe | Curse word (son of a b***h) |
| Sookey | A cow |
| Sop | Gravy |
| Spat | A small caliber rifle like 22 |
| Spilldukes | A fist fight |
| Springknee | To shout |
| Squeekyteek | A ground squirrel |
| Steederse | A stallion |
| Steinber | Beer |
| Stiff hat | A boxer |
| Stook | Stuck |
| Stook on | In love with |
| Stooks | A boyfriend/girlfriend |
| Straightneck | A person from Germany |
| Strawbs | Strawberries |
| Streebs | Same as strawbs |
| Stribs | Brown beans |
| String | To kill |
| Suck | An infant |
| Sucks | Female breasts |
| Sull | To sulk |
| Sunny | A pretty day |
| Sull | To make someone angry |
| Surge | Venereal disease |
| Swifty | A long whip |
| Swifty | A short drive in a horse drawn buggy. |
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| Tige | A tiger |
| Tigey | Severely emotionally disturbed |
| Taiklef | The long middle finger |
| Taiklef | The female pudendum |
| Taish | To defecate |
| Taishin' nook | A bathroom |
| Taish water | Sewage |
| Talley whacker | The penis |
| Tarp | The pudendum of either sex |
| Teach | ; schoolteacher |
| Tea horner | A woman |
| Tebailp | The card game Double Pedro |
| Teebough | To urinate |
| Teebowed | Deaf/hard of hard of hearing |
| Teedee | Today |
| Tee'l | To hell |
| Teeps | Same as teebough |
| Teesle | Cheese |
| Teet | Tight |
| Teet-lipped | Mad |
| Teleef | A telephone |
| Televeef | Television |
| Tellick | Exhausted |
| Thorpes | Men's high bottom shoes |
| Thribble | Triple |
| Thribble "a" | Whiskey |
| Thribs | Three |
| Tidrey | Something inconsequential |
| Tidrick | A party; a social gathering |
| Tipe | Same as teebough |
| Tipin' moshe | A chamber pot |
| Tobe | Tobacco |
| Tom bacon | A long handle bar mustache |
| Tomker | A cat |
| Tomker seertle | A catfish |
| Tony bloker | A smoking pipe |
| Tongue | cuppy; Sick |
| Toops | A quarter |
| Trashmover | A fairly heavy winter storm |
| Treek | To travel |
| Trilby | A shoe |
| Trojan | Dynamite |
| Tudd | To masturbate |
| Tuddish | Mentally retarded |
| Tuffer | A sheep that's difficult to sheer |
| Tune a fiddle | To sharpen a saw |
| Tukey neck | A person who stares |
| Turteel | A mourning dove |
| Tweed | A small child |
| Tweedish | Childish. |
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| Underst | To understand |
| Upper-cuttin | A fist-fight. |
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| Visalia | A roping saddle. |
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| Wailk | A wildcat |
| Walter levi | A telephone |
| Wee | small |
| Wee boshe | A fawn deer |
| Weech | A small child |
| Wee heese | An elementary school |
| Weelk | Same as wailk |
| Weelk region | A wildcat region |
| Weese | A infant |
| Wee tweed | A small child |
| Wess | To fib |
| Wessup | A species of flower |
| Wessup tweed | "A flower child" |
| Wheeler | A harmless lie |
| White oak | To work hard |
| White spot | A dead sheep |
| Whittlin' | policies |
| Wood dog | A gun shy dog. |
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| Yebbelow | To talk |
| Yattin' | Talk/chatter |
| Yeast | powder biscuit; powdery; The female sex organ; sexually aroused |
| Yibe | Yes |
| Yink | A young person |
| Yuke tree | A saddle. |
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| Zeese | Coffee. (A local hunting-camp cook nicknamed Zeese, from his initials
Z.C., made bitterly strong coffee.) |
