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Maine Lingo 3: Baister—Possibly Baster [...] indicating large size [...] Often with the adjective ‘old’.at baster, n.2
Maine Lingo 3: Baister—Possibly Baster [...] indicating large size [...] Often with the adjective ‘old’. Maine Lingo 3: Beamy [...] is a favorite Maine adjective for a lady with steatopygous accumulation.at beamy, adj.1
Maine Lingo 28: A gentleman feeling no pain might be bungs up on his way home.at bungs up, adj.
Maine Lingo 72: Devil’s Half Acre – That part of old Bangor where choppers and river drivers disported. The vicinity of lower Exchange Street, now re-urbanized.at devil’s half-acre (n.) under devil, n.
Maine Lingo 305: One look at her, and you can see she’s been eatin’ dried apples .at eat dried apples (v.) under eat, v.
Maine Lingo 86: Essence peddler A skunk.at essence-peddler (n.) under essence, n.1
Maine Lingo 28: A gentleman feeling no pain might be bungs up on his way home.at feeling no pain, phr.
in Maine Lingo.at Irish draperies (n.) under Irish, adj.
Maine Lingo 146: Don’t be so jeezly hard to get along with!at jeezly, adj.
Maine Lingo 175: Maineiac is more used by out-of-staters than by bona fide residents of the Pine Tree Precinct, but the latter are capable of tossing it off to describe themselves when it suits.at Mainiac, n.
Maine Lingo 192: Numb—A mild version of dumb, in the sense of somewhat stupid. A numb-head doesn’t know enough to come in out of the rain.at numbhead (n.) under numb, adj.
Maine Lingo 192: Numb—A mild version of dumb, in the sense of somewhat stupid. [...] Physical numbness, transferred to intelligence, is suggested by ‘as numb as a pounded thumb.’ A Mainer might call somebody dumb behind his back, but to his face he’d use numb: ‘You seem a little numb about learnin’ how to do that!’ .at numb, adj.
Maine Lingo 285: Tail goes with the hide [...] it doesn’t matter much one way or the other.at let the tail go with the hide (v.) under tail, n.
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