boughten – adjective – refers to ready-made products like a boughten quilt. I got one of those boughten quilts at Wal-Mart the other day. In an area where you can get lots of things homemade, boughten is an important word. After all, there is a huge difference between boughten bread and homemade. Or boughten jelly and homemade. (Oooh, I …
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Wednesday’s Word: Rutsch
rutsch – verb – to slide, have sex, etc. We had to rutsch that truck out of the ditch. The origin of this South Shore word probably comes from the early Germans who landed in Lunenburg and spread their genes and language throughout the South Shore. German has a similar word called “rutsch” which means “slide”. Local people tend to …
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