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bugger up one of the disfigurements com- 
ing from Austral English. 
to spoil. V 254. 
bullamacow (pulumakau). London (361) 
S says: 
‘‘Bullamacow means tinned beef. 
This word was corrupted from the 
English language by the Samoans, 
and from them learned by the 
traders, who carried it along with 
them into Melanesia. Captain 
Cook and the other early naviga- 
tors made a practice of introducing 
seeds, plants, and domestic animals 
amongst the natives. It was at 
Samoa that one such navigator 
landed a bull and a cow. ‘This is 
a bull and a cow,’ said he to the 
Samoans. They thought he was 
giving the name of the breed, and 
from that day to this beef on the 
hoof and beef in the tin is called 
bullamacow.”’ 
The word can not be Samoan because 
of the ahsence of the true & from 
that language, and it is not in use 
in that archipelago, where pisupo 
(peasoup, q. v.) serves for tinned 
beef. With more of circumstance 
the invention of the neologism is 
credited to the Fijians on the intro- 
duction of cattle by the mission- 
aries. Pulomokau is found (s. v. 
beef) in the English vocabulary of 
the second edition of Hazlewood’s 
dictionary of that language (1872). 
It is quite generally used in the 
Beach-la-mar. 
bulopenn Dr. Stephan (SG 20) cautions 
the collector of New Ireland lan- 
guages not to record bulopenn as 
the word for ornament, since it is 
only a scrambled form of blue 
paint. It affords an interesting 
example of the local development 
of jargon: we find many such 
words in local use; it was only in 
the mixture of the plantation and 
the labor trade that they found 
exit to a wider currency which 
might establish them as a part of 
the Beach-la-mar. 
burn cook is better usage in this sense. 
man Matupi fight along him burn 
house. W 290. 
bush the jungle sense has developed in 
English since the American hived 
off. 
1. in general all land not under cultivation 
or occupation for residence, whether 
covered with forest or with alang 
grass. 
bush stop far off gardens there: land 
under tilth. Se 614. 
rope along bush: liana. R 97. 
bush 
2. with a wholesome regard of the wild 
inhabitants. 
docta belong bush: 
SG 45. 
man bush. Glaumont, Nouvelles- 
Hébrides 71. 
3. of the individual plants. 
small bush in gardens: weeds. R 122 
but the authority is not wholly satisfactory 
for this single instance. 
but plenty kaikai; yes, but me like 
liklik work liklik kaikai. SG 29. 
butcher kaikai meat along butcher. R 108 
buy you buy boy? you buy yam? Ws. 
by=and=by it is susceptible of loose quali- 
fication, bymby one time (day) im- 
mediately after now, bymby little 
bit, bymby big bit, bymby long time. 
1. of futurity in general. 
you kitch him, by-and-by you go 
belong Sydney. SG 24. 
by-nd-by this fellow he die. SG 26. 
potey me come back and eaty you. 
97. 
bymbye he sorry he no take him. 
necromancer, 
Se 444. 
bymbye all men laugh along that boy. 
Se 567. 
he small now, bymbye he big. Se 
623. 
hear um sing out, by-n’-by hear um 
plenty smell. G 259. 
2. of futurity relative to a past time. 
by-and-by boy belong island he 
speak. W 373. 
bimeby one day Eve she come along 
Adam. L 363. 
by-n’-by he speak wantum one fellow 
water. G1098. 
that fellow stop behin’, by-n’-by he 
go on, then you coming. G 207. 
calaboose Spanish through sailor English. 
aprison. S 301. 
you catch ’em man bush, you put ’em 
calaboose. What name? Him 
plenty kaikai too much. The 
sentence of this being, what’s the 
earthly use of a penology which 
pampers the criminal. 
calico this term covers all woven fabrics in 
trade. 
yes, me like calico. W 123. 
call 
1. to give a name to. 
he call’m thisfellamanAdam. L 363. 
2. to have a name. 
what’m call this fellow? 
3. to summon. 
god he speak “‘me call’m you too 
much.” L 363. 
