Quarterly Update 7 invites you to come on down to the bowery dance! Pennsylvania is bringing some boilo, the upper Great Lake states are making some booya, Louisiana’s got the mason bream ready for frying, and the Rocky Mountain states are putting up the bowery. . . or perhaps just reserving one? [This entry has an intriguing history and evolution of both sense and regional patterns.] Still not convinced to leave your boar’s nest? Rumor has it North Carolina (and other South Atlantic friends) might lead us in one or two games of ain’t no bears (or boogers!) out tonight. And we overheard Texas say, “Boy hidy, this update’s
gonna’ be fun!”
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| Headword | Part of Speech | Update Type |
| ain’t no bears out tonight | n | Revised Entry |
| ain’t no boogers out tonight | n | New Entry |
| black bream | n | Revised Entry |
| blue root | n | New Entry |
| boar’s nest | n | Revised Senses, New Sense |
| boilo | n | New Entry |
| boogalee | n | Revised Entry |
| boogerbear | n | Revised Sense, New Senses |
| booya | n, also attrib | Revised Entry |
| bottomy | adj | New Entry |
| bow | v1 | Revised Entry |
| bow up | v phr | Revised Senses, New Senses |
| bow up one’s back | v phr | Revised Sense, New Sense |
| bowery | n1 | Revised Entry |
bowery dance |
n | Revised Entry |
| bowsplit | n | New Entry |
| boy howdy | exclam | New Entry |
| braid | v | New Entry |
| branch lettuce | n | Revised Entry |
| bread and with it | n | Revised Entry |
| camel cricket | n | Revised Entry |
| cherry gill | n | New Entry |
| chinquapin | n | Revised Senses |
| chinquapin bream | n | New Entry |
| chinquapin perch | n | New Entry |
| government bream | n | New Entry |
| hand-painted bream | n | New Entry |
| mason bream | n | New Entry |
| redgill | n | Revised Entry |
| river bream | n | New Entry |
| swiftwater bream | n | New Entry |
| willow bream | n | New Entry |