Newfoundland Word of the Day

from the "Dictionary of Newfoundland English"

Description

I started this list in late 1998 for several reasons:

to learn a little more about my own native language and dialect,
to provide a means for other interested persons to learn more about another unique aspect of Newfoundland, and
to simply promote the idea that Newfoundland and Newfoundlanders are unique in many ways.

Each day a new word is added to the list. The new word is also broadcast as a message trailer on the NLGS mailing list. I hope you find the entries interesting!

Date	Word and Definition
December 21, 1998	LIVYER - a permanent settler of coastal Newfoundland (as opposed to a migratory fisherman from England); a settler on the coast of Labrador (as opposed to migratory summer fisherman from Newfoundland).
December 22, 1998	SCREECHER - a howling storm; an undernourished harp seal pup.
December 23, 1998	TIB'S EVE - The day before Christmas Eve (today!); also, a day that will never come.
December 24, 1998	FIGGY PUDDING - plum pudding (preparation began Christmas Eve for tomorrow's dinner).
December 25, 1998	CHRISTMAS - The twelve days of Christmas, 25 Dec to 6 Jan. BLOW THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING - to celebrate with gunfire the lifting of the Christmas pudding out of the pot.
December 26, 1998	MUMMER - An elaborately costumed and disguised person who participates in various group activities at Christmas. MUMMERING - The practice of visiting houses disguised as a mummer at Christmas.
December 27, 1998	JANNY - An elaborately costumed and disguised person who participates in various group activities at Christmas. JANNYING - The practice of visiting houses disguised as a mummer at Christmas. JANNY-NIGHT - Any night during Christmas on whch jannies go around visiting at people's houses. GO OUT IN THE JANNIES - to dress in the costume of a janny.
December 28, 1998	MERRY DANCERS - northern lights, aurora borealis (extra brilliant light is a sign of good weather).
December 29, 1998	HAG or OLD HAG - The nightmare, especially one in which the victim feels someone sitting on their chest.
December 30, 1998	OLD SCRIPTURE CAKE - Christmas cake made from recipe drawn from biblical texts (1 cup Judges 5:25 milk, 2 cups Jeremiah 6:20 sugar, ...)
December 31, 1998	OLD YEAR - New Year's Eve
January 1, 1999	BE IN THE DAWNIES - to be harried or tired; to be hung-over!
January 2, 1999	DIET - Board or keep for fishing servant, shareman, or member of a sealing crew. DIETER - One who receives winter board and accomodation against the promise of cash or service in the next fishing season, or one engaged in return for board, in the preparatory work of the fishing season.
	WEATHER WEEK
January 3, 1999	SILVER THAW or GLITTER - A condition of the weather in which freezing rain deposits a coating of ice n exposed objects. (especially when the sun comes out later)
January 4, 1999	MAUZY - Damp and warm, muggy, close, foggy, sometimes with light rain.
January 5, 1999	SCAD - Sudden and brief shower of rain or snow.
January 6, 1999	OLD TWELFTH DAY, OLD CHRISTMAS DAY - As reckoned by the old style. On this day the Christmas tree is taken down and Christmas is over.
January 7, 1999	BY THE REEVES - Of heavy rain or snow; in great swirls and drifts: "It's snowing by the reeves."
January 8, 1999	SCUDDY - Of the weather, uncertain, liable to sudden scuds or gusts of wind; misty, showery.
January 9, 1999	LOGY - Of the weather, heavy (with moisture); oppressively hot.
January 10, 1999	MISK, MISKY - Light rain or mist; vapour rising from the sea after a cold night. Misty.
	CLOTHING WEEK
January 11, 1999	BARVEL - Leather, canvas, or oil-skin apron reaching from the breast to the knees, worn when catching fish or processing the catch ashore; a home-made domestic apron.
January 12, 1999	VAMP - Short, thick woolen oversock worn in boots to prevent chafing or around the house as a slipper; bottom of a sock
January 13, 1999	ADIKEY - Eskimo hooded outer garment or blouse made of cloth or animal skin.
January 14, 1999	CUFF - A thick, usually fingerless mitten made of wool, swanskin, or leather, worn in winter. Also, a fisherman's heavy mitten, often with fingers cut off, used to protect the hand in hauling lines or splitting fish.
January 15, 1999	CAUBEEN - A cap or hat, but in a fish plant refers to the paper head-dress worn by workers.
January 16, 1999	COSSOCK - Footwear made by cutting the legs off a pair of old rubber boots at the ankle.
	ICE WEEK
January 17, 1999	BALLICATTER - Ice formed by the action in winter of spray and waves along the shore-line, making a fringe or band on the landward side; a floating pan of ice; frozen moisture around the nose and mouth.
January 18, 1999	CLUMPER - A small ice-berg or pan of ice; a slab of ice forced up along the shoreline; a hummock of ice in an ice-field; a small chunk of ice or snow.
January 19, 1999	GROWLER - Piece of floating ice hazardous to vessels because of its instability or indeterminate size; a piece off an iceberg.
January 20, 1999	LOLLY - Soft ice forming in water; loose ice or snow floating in water.
January 21, 1999	PINNACLE - A peak of ice projecting from an iceberg or rafted up in an ice-floe; Of floating ice, to become forced upwards by the pressure of the flow. PINNACLE TEA - Tea brewed at sea from melted fragments of glacial ice.
January 22, 1999	TABBY - A small floating ice pan in boys' sport of jumping across the ice or 'copying'; To jump from one floating ice pan to another.
January 23, 1999	SISH - A thin layer of ice newly formed on the surface of the sea. SISH OVER - Of the surface of a body of water, to form a thin layer of ice.
	DEROGATIONS WEEK
January 24, 1999	ANGISHORE - A man regarded as too lazy too fish; a worthless fellow, a sluggard, a rascal; idle mischievous child or person.
January 25, 1999	OMALOOR - A clumsy, stupid, simple-minded fellow.
January 26, 1999	OMADHAUN - A stupid, idle, foolish fellow; fool.
January 27, 1999	SLEVEEN - A sly deceitful man; a mean fellow; rascal; mischievous child.
January 28, 1999	CAUDLER - A person who muddles up any activity.
January 29, 1999	GOMMEL - Epithet for a stupid person, often 'foolish gommel'.
January 30, 1999	JACKABAUN - A mischievous, untrustworthy person.
	CHILDRENS GAMES WEEK
January 31, 1999	GOOLOS - Home or base in playing certain games; such a game.
February 1, 1999	LALLIK - A children's chasing game, tag; the person who is "it" in this game.
February 2, 1999	CANDLEMAS CAKE - Type of sweetened bread baked for party on February 2 or Candlemas Day; or the party itself.
February 3, 1999	TIDDLY - A children's game in which a stick, balanced on a rock or over a hole, is hooked or flicked into the air and struck with another. TIDDLE - To strike, hook, or tip into the air the short stick in the game of tiddly. TIDDLY STICK - Either of the two sticks, but especially the short one, used in the game of tiddly.
February 4, 1999	CAT or CAT-STICK - A game similar to hurley, played with sticks on the ice. You try to keep the ball out of a hole cut in the ice or frozen ground.
February 5, 1999	HOIST-YOUR-SAILS-AND-RUN - Cry by player in children's game of hide and seek before going to find the other players hiding; or the game itself.
February 6, 1999	MOT - Mark in the game of Quoits, etc.. Shallow depression in the ground providing a target in the game of marbles.
	BOATS WEEK
February 7, 1999	GASHER - A small fishing boat with sharp prow and stern.
February 8, 1999	PUNT - An undecked boat up to 25 feet in length, round-bottomed, and keeled, driven by oars, sail or engine and used variously in the inshore or coastal fishery.
February 9, 1999	DORY - A small, flat-bottomed boat with flaring sides and a sharp bow and stern, providing both stability in the water an easy stowage in stacks on deck; used especially in fishing with hand-lines and trawls; frequently in designations of various sizes of vessel employing such craft: "four-dory vessel". Also, DORY BANKER, DORY BUFF (yellow), DORY HAT (waterproof with brim same size all around), DORY HOOK (used to hoist a dory), DORY PIGGIN (bailer), DORY PIN (holds oars in place), DORY STRAP (rope handles)
February 10, 1999	SWAMP - A small, flat-bottomed row-boat; also FLAT.
February 11, 1999	JACK - A bluff, two-masted decked vessel, schooner-rigged and varying from 5 to 20 tons used for various fisheries purposes; also JACK-BOAT JACKASS - Heavy rough boats; A two-masted vessel rigged for the seal hunt with square, rather than fore-and-aft, sails on the mainmast.
February 12, 1999	TRAP SKIFF - A large undecked fishing boat, propelled by oar, small sail or engine and used in the coastal fishery to set and haul nets, especially cod traps.
February 13, 1999	BANKER - A vessel engaged in cod-fishing on the Newfoundland offshore grounds, especially the Grand Banks.
	PLANTS WEEK
February 14, 1999	LABRADOR TEA - A low-growing evergreen of the genus Ledum; An infusion of the bruised leaves of the Labrador tea plant used as a substitute for tea.
February 15, 1999	PITCHER PLANT - Bronze or green perennial of boggy areas with a single tall capsuled stem growing out of a cluster of curved pitcher-shaped leaves which trap water and insects; the floral emblem of Newfoundland.
February 16, 1999	PANCAKE DAY or PANCAKE NIGHT - Shrove Tuesday, the last day before Lent. Pancakes are prepared mixing in a button, thread, nail, coin, and ring foretelling respectively bachelorhood, seamstress/tailor, carpenter or first to die, coming into money, and marriage.
February 17, 1999	PISS-A-BED or PISS T'BED - Dandelion
February 18, 1999	TEA-FLOWER or PITNAGEN - Purple-stemmed aster (dried roots sometimes used with dried potato peels to make an ersatz tobacco).
February 19, 1999	GILLCAP, GILLCUP - Buttercup; phrase "yellow as a gillcap".
February 20, 1999	SALLY SUCKERS - A weed with sour leaves chewed by children; sheep sorrel. Also, SALLY SOURS, SALLY CIVES, SALLY SAUCERS.
	IN THE WOODS WEEK
February 21, 1999	MAN-CAT - Small sled used in winter for transporting wood and hauled by a man.
February 22, 1999	CATAMARAN - Sled with stout wooden runners curved up in front and with a vertical stick, or horn, at each corner, hauled in the winter by dogs, horse, or man, used especially for carting wood and other heavy loads, but also for pleasure; also, a horse drawn sleigh for winter use, passengers facing the side of the sleigh.
February 23, 1999	BITTING STICK - Piece of wood used to tighten rope holding a load of wood in place on a sled (used like a tourniquet).
February 24, 1999	CHOP; HAVE ONE'S CHOP IN - To have cut one's allotted quantity of wood.
February 25, 1999	LOG-PATH - A man's customary path or right-of-way to an area to cut and haul wood.
February 26, 1999	DOUBLE-SLED - Heavy sled drawn by two horses; a sled in two linked sections used to haul wood.
February 27, 1999	CARK - Protruding metal point on a sled to hold logs in place.
	HUNTING & TRAPPING WEEK
February 28, 1999	FURRIER - A fur-hunter or trapper. FURRIERY - The activity of hunting and trapping fur-animals; also FURRING.
March 1, 1999	FEETING or FOOTING - The footprints or tracks of animals.
March 2, 1999	FLUMMY - A kind of bread made by hunters and trappers: a dough of flour, bread soda, and water wrapped on a stick and toasted over an open fire.
March 3, 1999	FLICER or FLICER-STICK - The spring of a rabbit snare. Also BENDER.
March 4, 1999	SPREAD - To stretch an animal skin on a wooden frame to dry.
March 5, 1999	STAKE - To drive stakes through a beaver house to trap the animal.
March 6, 1999	TAIL or TEEL - To bait or set a trap or snare; to place a weapon so that game is shot when the device is triggered.
	SEA HAZARDS WEEK
March 7, 1999	SINKER or SUNKER - A rock hazardous to boats and vessels.
March 8, 1999	FLOWERS - Rock that is awash. Rocks or ledges over which the sea breaks.
March 9, 1999	HOG'S NOSE - A waterspout, a freak whirlwind at sea.
March 10, 1999	HEAVE OUT - Of a vessel, to capsize or roll over.
March 11, 1999	OLD HARRY - Reef or rock hazardous to vessels.
March 12, 1999	BRANDIES, BRANDISHES - Group of sunken rocks over which the sea breaks.
March 13, 1999	STAG - A submerged rock.
	IRISH HERITAGE WEEK
March 14, 1999	PADDY'S SCAD, BROOM, BRUSH, or BATCH - Snowfall just before or after St. Patrick's Day. (We had ours last night!)
March 15, 1999	IRISH CHAIN - A decorative pattern used in making quilts or in knitting. IRISH LORDS - Type of sea-bird. IRISH TOOTHACHE - Pregnancy. GO INTO AN IRISH SULK - to become morose especially after an interlude of high-spirited gaiety.
March 16, 1999	SHEILA - In folk legend, the wife, sister, housekeeper, or acquaintance of St. Patrick. SHEILA'S BRUSH - Fierce storm and heavy snowfall about the 18th of March.
March 17, 1999	PATRICK - A fisherman, especially an Irish fisheries 'servant'. PATRICK'S DAY/NIGHT - March 17th. PATRICK'S POT - A windfall.
March 18, 1999	DADYEENS, CLEAR AIRS, WHEY-BELLIES, YELLOW-BELLIES, and DOONES - Irish factions in St. John's in the early 1800s. Respectively from Cork, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, and Kilkenny. The first three allied against the second two.
March 19, 1999	TEAK - One of the elaborately dressed pranksters who go about during Christmas holidays. (Derived from Irish name Teague.) TEAK DAY - Old Christmas Day, January 6th, on which certain mummers customarily appear. If you didn't wear a green ribbon you got a crack with stick!
March 20, 1999	TALAMH AN EISC - Irish for Newfoundland, literally translated means "land of the fish" (Apparently the only place-name outside of Ireland which is not a simple literal translation.)
	SEALS WEEK
March 21, 1999	BEDLAMER - An immature seal, especially a harp seal, approaching breeding age. (Also, a youth approaching manhood.)
March 22, 1999	RAGGEDY-JACKET - Young harp seal undergoing change from 'white-coat' to 'bedlamer' stage.
March 23, 1999	BEATER - A harp seal just past the white-coat stage and migrating north from the breeding grounds on the ice floes off Newfoundland.
March 24, 1999	RANGER - The common seal, especially in its third year.
March 25, 1999	DIPPER - Harp seal in its first year, when it takes to the water. DIPPING TIME - Period in March-April when young seals take to the water.
March 26, 1999	JINNY - Seal believed to act as a sentinel for the herd; also GINNY, JENNY.
March 27, 1999	SWILE - A North Atlantic Seal, especially harp or hooded; also SWOIL, SWALE, SOIL, SILE.
	SEALING WEEK
March 28, 1999	SCULP - The skin of a harp or hooded seal with the blubber attached.
March 29, 1999	BERTH - A place as seal-hunter on a vessel with a share in the profits of the voyage.
March 30, 1999	SEAL DOG - iron hook used with rope or chain to hoist seal pelts and carcasses aboard vessel.
March 31, 1999	GAFF - A stout pole, 5 - 8 feet long with an iron hook and spike fastened to one end, used to assist a sealer on the ice and to kill seals.
April 1, 1999	FLAG - The pennant of a sealing vessel used to mark the ownership and position on the ice of a pile of seal pelts.
April 2, 1999	SEAL GUN - Long, muzzle-loading weapon used to shoot seals.
April 3, 1999	FLIPPER PIE - The forelimb of a seal used to propel the animal in the water or on the ice, especially as prepared for eating.
April 4, 1999	EASTER - Eastern, frequently in place names; from the East.
	BIRDS WEEK
April 5, 1999	ESKIMO DUCK - American common eider.
April 6, 1999	WOBBLE or WABBLE - Red-throated loon.
April 7, 1999	WAGTAIL - Spotted sandpiper.
April 8, 1999	WAGEL - Great black-backed gull in its immature state.
April 9, 1999	TURR - Probably imitative of the earlier name murre and the bird's note. One of several sea-birds hunted for food: Atlantic common murre, thick-billed murre.
April 10, 1999	BULL-BIRD - Common dovekie (hunted for food).
	FISH WEEK
April 11, 1999	SNAKE - Rock gunnel or Tansy; radiated shanny (both small elongated species of salt-water fish).
April 12, 1999	SPANTICKLE (many variations) - Any of a variety of sticklebacks (tiny freshwater fish). Also PRICKLY.
April 13, 1999	CONNOR - Blue perch, a bottom-feeding fish of inshore waters, especially common around wharves and stages.
April 14, 1999	LANCE - A small elongate fish used as bait; sand eel.
April 15, 1999	LUMP - Lumpfish (harvested for their roe, a cheap caviar).
April 16, 1999	SCULPIN - A very ugly scavenger fish, also PIG-FISH, PLUG-EYE.
April 17, 1999	POODLER - Immature coal-fish, ocean pout.
	FARMING WEEK
April 18, 1999	GARDEN - A piece of land belonging to a family, sometimes fenced; an area enclosed for the cultivation of hay or vegetables.
April 19, 1999	POOK - A cock of hay.
April 20, 1999	NAN, NANNY - Sheep; or a call to sheep.
April 21, 1999	BOG - Peat, especially removed from marsh-land and used to improve soils. BOG MEADOW - An open stretch of grassy marshland, often used to produce hay.
April 22, 1999	BOGGAN - Crossbar behind horse to which traces and plough are attached.
April 23, 1999	LEAN-IN - A cow-shed, shelter for cows.
April 24, 1999	SHUCK - A call to pigs repeated quickly and often.
	TREES WEEK
April 25, 1999	SALLY - Willow tree, willow brach; Sweet gale SALLYWOOD - Mountain Holly
April 26, 1999	WITCH-HAZEL - Yellow or grey birch.
April 27, 1999	APSY - Thick with aspen trees; in place-names.
April 28, 1999	DOGWOOD - Mountain ash. DOGBERRY - Mountain ash; berries of this tree.
April 29, 1999	VAR - Balsam fir. SNOTTY VAR - Balsam fir with clotted resin on the bark.
April 30, 1999	JUNIPER - Larch or tamarack.
May 1, 1999	IRON SPRUCE - Red spruce.
	DISEASES WEEK
May 2, 1999	INFLAMMATION - Pneumonia.
May 3, 1999	LEAKY (PAW) - Inflammation of hand or wrist caused by exposure to salt water.
May 4, 1999	LOW-MINDED - Depression.
May 5, 1999	PUP - A blister, sore, or inflammation common among fishermen whose skin is often in contact with salt-water.
May 6, 1999	WHITE MOUTH - Disease in which the mouth and lips have white flecks; thrush.
May 7, 1999	SCUTTERS - Diarrhoea.
May 8, 1999	DEAD-EYE - Sore or callus on hand.
	FISHING NETS WEEK
May 9, 1999	TRAP - A type of fixed fishing-gear used in inshore waters, box-shaped, with a length of net stretching from shore to entrance through which migrating cod enter and are trapped.
May 10, 1999	TWINE - Hemp, cotton, or nylon thread, varying in the number of its twisted strands, used in the making of fish-nets.
May 11, 1999	CARD - In knitting a net, a thin wooden oblong, four or more inches long and of varying width, used as a guide to the size of mesh required.
May 12, 1999	KNIT - To make or repair a net; to knot twine into meshes to form a fish-net. KNIT OUT - To empty a needleful of twine when making a fish-net. KNITTING NEEDLE - Implement used to hold a quantity of twine and used to knot meshes in a fish-net.
May 13, 1999	DREW - In knitting a fish-net, a certain number of meshes formed in a row.
May 14, 1999	BARK - To immerse a fish-net, sail, etc in the liquid formed by boiling the bark and buds of a conifer, as a preservative.
May 15, 1999	LINNET - Twine for knitting fish-nets; the sections of netting forming the several parts of such nets; the complete net, seine, trap or all these collectively. LINNET EDGE - In a cod-trap, the part of a section of netting attached to a line or rope forming the frame of the device. LINNET POLE - A stick from which a fish-net is suspended to dry.
	FISHING NETS 2nd WEEK
May 16, 1999	LEADER - A length of net stretching from the shore to a cod-trap to guide fish into the entrance.
May 17, 1999	SINKS - The lead weights attached to the bottom of a fish-net.
May 18, 1999	THREE LEG - Uncompleted mesh of a fish-net, having three corner knots and one loose strand of twine.
May 19, 1999	WALL - Either of two long vertical sections of netting in the box-shaped cod-trap; side.
May 20, 1999	SEINE - A large vertical net placed in position around a school of fish, the 'foots' drawn together to form a bag, and hauled at sea or in shallow water near the shore.
May 21, 1999	CAST-NET - An open-mouthed, circular, and weighted net thrown by hand among schooling caplin and drawn ashore or to the boat as the net is closed on the catch.
May 22, 1999	TUCK - One of the lines drawn tight in a cast-net when catching caplin. TUTTLE LINE - A length of line forming part of a cast-net and and used to draw the tucks together, closing the net.
	MEASURES WEEK
May 23, 1999	YAFFLE - An armful (of salt-cod, firewood, etc); a load.
May 24, 1999	DEAD MAN'S SHARE - a small portion.
May 25, 1999	BACK-LOAD - An exceptionally large amount.
May 26, 1999	BRESNA, BRISHNEY - A bundle of firewood.
May 27, 1999	BACK-BURN - Amount carried on shoulders, especially a load of wood.
May 28, 1999	BATTY - A sum of money; a boat-load of fish.
May 29, 1999	FADDLE - A bundle of firewood.
	DRINK WEEK
May 30, 1999	BERRY OCKY - Home-made drink of wild berries, especially partridgeberries, jam and water.
May 31, 1999	SPRUCE BEER - Fermented drink made from an infusion of the boughs and buds of the black spruce.
June 1, 1999	CALLIBOGUS - A drink made by mixing spruce beer, rum, or other liquor and molasses.
June 2, 1999	DAWN - A drink of rum.
June 3, 1999	SWITCHEL - A drink of molasses and water often seasoned with vinegar and ginger. SWITCHEL TEA - Tea, especially that once drunk by fishermen and sealers at sea.
June 4, 1999	SWISH - Liquor produced by pouring water into a recently emptied rum barrel.
June 5, 1999	BUNG-YOUR-EYE - Strong alcholic beverage.
	DRINK 2nd WEEK
June 6, 1999	FREELY - Local name in Cape Freels area for a syrupy drink made from bakeapple berries.
June 7, 1999	MUG-UP - A cup or mug of tea and a snack taken between any of the main meals, especially in a pause from work.
June 8, 1999	GROG - A quantity, a sup; a shot of liquor.
June 9, 1999	SYRUP - A sweet, fruit-flavoured commercial cordial; a drink prepared from such a cordial diluted with water.
June 10, 1999	BOIL-UP - A brew of tea, and sometimes a snack, taken during a rest from work in the country or on a vessel.
June 11, 1999	BEER - A flavoured, carbonated beverage.
June 12, 1999	LABRADOR TEA - An infusion of the bruised leaves of the Labrador tea plant, used as a substitute for tea.
	BOAT-BUILDING WEEK
June 13, 1999	STUDDLE - One of the vertical timbers in the frame of a boat.
June 14, 1999	CUDDY - A cabin at bow or stern of a small vessel or large boat for accommodation and provisions; in a small undecked fishing boat, a small enclosed space forward or aft.
June 15, 1999	SUANT - Of a curve, especially in the hull of a vessel, smooth, graceful, with a correct sheer.
June 16, 1999	STANCHION - The rib or frame on the inside of a dory.
June 17, 1999	SPREAD, SPREADER - A pole used on a small sailing craft as a substitute for a gaff or boom.
June 18, 1999	SPIRKING - A strip of wood covering the space between the floor-board of a boat and the inside plank at the water line.
June 19, 1999	PITCHER - One of the timbers or ribs of a boat, set in raked or slanted fashion in the frame of the forward and after sections of the craft.
	NOT COMPLIMENTS WEEK
June 20, 1999	SHIMMICK - A despised person; a dissembler.
June 21, 1999	SLACK-FISTED - Lazy, without ambition.
June 22, 1999	GLAVAUN - Continuous complaining; one who grumbles.
June 23, 1999	SLINGER - An idler; truant from work.
June 24, 1999 (Discovery Day)	GATCHER - A person who behaves in a swaggering manner; show-off.
June 25, 1999	SLAWMEEN - Dirty, untidy person.
June 26, 1999	GAWMOGUE - A silly, mischievous person.
	PARTY WEEK
June 27, 1999	JOHNNY MILLER - Ring-dance and song.
June 28, 1999	JOHNNY MAGOREY - Subject of various nonsense verses with sudden, unexpected ending for the amusement of small children.
June 29, 1999	GARAGEE - Boisterous, rough-and-tumble behaviour; fun, devilment.
June 30, 1999	PHILANDY - To caper, jump about.
July 1, 1999 (Memorial Day)	JULY DRIVE - In the Great War, the July offensive opening the first battle of the Somme in 1916; especially the engagement of the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont Hamel.
July 2, 1999	TIME - A party or celebration, especially a communal gathering with dancing, entertainment, etc.
July 3, 1999	GAMMETT - An instance of noise-making; a period of carrying-on.