ramblin on about cookin....Newfoundland book notes... Phrases to insert on book pages…to be in a box while regular book text written above or below; Mug Up Mug up (Boil up, cook up, Chaw and Glutch, Nunch, Yop, Munch). A mug of tea (Labrador tea, Switchel, Cup ‘o slops, kettle tea, Indian Tea) and a snack had between meals Often it is associated with working in the woods, hunting or fishing. You would bring your proggins (rough food, grub, chaw, progs, scran) in a brinbag (grubbox, dittybag, nonny, progbag, dunnybag, nunchy, nunny, grubbag, scrawn bag, bread noggin or nunchbag). A mug up could be hash (wood frolic, scouch) or vang (lather and squirt, ladder and skirt) if you were gut-foundered (hungry). If setting up camp or having a fire you would `storm the kettle boil your hot ass, piper or bibby) on your bogie(stove). When at sea fishing, you could `gallop` (boil) your slut (smut, flat arse, hurry up) in the cuddy (cookroom) while a
nice article at newfoundland quarterly 2020
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