Editing Boontling (section)

==B==
* back-dated chuck&nbsp;– a person who is ignorant or behind the times
* bahl&nbsp;– good, great
* bahlness&nbsp;– a very attractive woman
* barlow&nbsp;– a knife: taken from the trade name Barlow knife.
* bat&nbsp;– to masturbate.
* batter&nbsp;– a bachelor; a masturbator.
* bearman&nbsp;– a story teller: Allen Cooper, an innkeeper, who was a bear hunter and a story teller.
* beelch&nbsp;– sexual intercourse.
* bee hunter&nbsp;– a free spirited Valley girl
* beemsch&nbsp;– good show: a blend of bahl (good) and show.
* beeson tree&nbsp;– a stock saddle: Beeson was a trade name.
* beeljeck&nbsp;– a rabbit: a blend of Belgian hare and jack rabbit.
* belhoon&nbsp;– a dollar.
* bilch&nbsp;– sexual intercourse.
* Bill Nunn&nbsp;– syrup; a [[sobriquet]]: Bill Nunn put syrup on nearly everything he ate.
* bird-stock&nbsp;– a man with a large family.
* blooch&nbsp;– to prattle on, to talk aimlessly.
* bloocher&nbsp;– a 'bullshitter'; also, a masturbator.
* blue-birded&nbsp;– to be bucked off a horse: One of the boys got bucked off a horse and afterwards said, "I got thrown so high that a blue-bird could have built a nest on my ass."
* blue grass&nbsp;– whiskey.
* blue-tail&nbsp;– a rattlesnake.
* boo&nbsp;– a potato. [from the Pomo Indian ''bu'']
* booker, ''or'' Booker T&nbsp;– A person of African American descent: from the well known [[Booker T. Washington]]
* Boont&nbsp;– Boonville.
* boont [''verb'']&nbsp;– to speak Boontling
* bootjack&nbsp;– a coyote. (From the v-shape of their ears, resembling a bootjack.)
* borch&nbsp;– a person of Chinese descent: a blend or possibly a euphemism for boar Chinese.
* borego&nbsp;– ''see'': breggo
* borp&nbsp;– a hog; a boar pig.
* boshe&nbsp;– a deer.<ref>Adams traces ''boshe'' to the Pomo Indian word ''bishe''. However, Myrtle Rawles attributes it to "bosch", a South African antelope (see the definition: [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0002600.html bosch] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051207111301/http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0002600.html |date=December 7, 2005 }} "bosch-bok, n. bush-buck; kind of antelope." at tiscali.co.uk), surmising that the word was taken into Boontling after [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s 1909 African safari. (Rawles, p.5) In his oral history, Ernest Rawles attributed it to the French word "Boche" for the Germans, and claimed that this term developed in Boontling only after World War I, when returning veterans were fond of saying: "Its time to go hunt the Boshe."</ref>
* boshe gun&nbsp;– a .30–30 caliber rifle used to hunt deer.
* boshe hareem or boshin' hareem&nbsp;– a deer hunting dog or hound.
* boshin'&nbsp;– deer hunting
* bow&nbsp;– to dare or challenge to fight.
* bowgley&nbsp;– a 'whopper' of a lie
* branching&nbsp;– stepping out for a good time.
* branding irons&nbsp;– hand cuffs.
* breggo&nbsp;– a sheep. [from the Spanish ''borrego'']
* Brightlighter&nbsp;– An outsider. Anyone not from Boonville.
* briny&nbsp;– the coast.
* broadly&nbsp;– a cow.
* Bucket of Blood&nbsp;– nickname of a Boonville bar known for its brawls.
* bucky&nbsp;– a nickel.
* bucky walter&nbsp;– a pay phone. Derived from the fact that a call cost a nickel at the time. See also "walter".
* buck-inj&nbsp;– a person of Native Indian descent: a blend of buck-Indian.
* buck pasture&nbsp;– refers to the predicament of a man with a pregnant wife.
* burlapping&nbsp;– having sexual intercourse: from an incident in which a local couple was discovered having sex on a heap of burlap sacks in the back room of a store.