Wednesday’s Word

Word: Baster (N.) pronounced with a long ‘a’

Definition: anything of considerable size; also, masculine term of endearment

Usages:

“George got himself a old baster, didn’t he?”

“I guess. That deer dressed out at two-thirty-five.”

Or:

“Jim, you old baster, where you been all spring?”

(Definition from: “How To Talk Yankee”, by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)