Baldoozer

Subject: Baldoozer
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 03:31 PM

Topic TSCD 466, John Burgess, King of the Highland Pipers has a set of jigs which opens with a tune called The Baldoozer. Would anyone know what a baldoozer is ?

Subject: RE: Baldoozer
From: Peace
Date: 11 Apr 07 - 04:41 PM

A guy with no hair and a bad head cold?

Subject: RE: Baldoozer
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 03:49 AM

Are you sure it doesn't say Bulldozer ?

eric

Subject: RE: Baldoozer
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 04:38 AM

Yes. I'm positive. It's spelt baldoozer and there isn't a word of explanation in the CD booklet as to what a baldoozer is. Neither does the word appear in my concise OED, or in any dialect dictionary I've looked at, Scots or English.

Subject: RE: Baldoozer
From: GUEST,kenny
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 10:25 AM

"Baldoozer" is right - that's what on the LP sleeve, but there is always the possibility it was a spelling mistake on the sleeve notes.
I've no idea what it is/was, and have never come across the word anywhere else.

Subject: RE: Baldoozer
From: Mr Happy
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 10:31 AM

sory misread title as 'Baldboozer'!

sounds like a lot've folk I know!

Subject: RE: Baldoozer
From: GUEST,OLD TIMER- GROUCHO
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 11:36 AM

WHERE I GREW UP IN WEXFORD A WOMAN WITH ENORMOUS SEXUAL APPETITE WAS REFERRED TO AS A BALLDOZER

Subject: RE: Baldoozer
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 04:45 AM

Interesting. Thanks for that one, although I confess to be a little sceptical. It's just that I can't imagine a (presumably) fairly straight laced Scots piper naming a Scots jig after a randy woman. Of course it's possible that Burgess was trying to wind Topic records up. Rather as Willie Clancy did when he recorded The Choice Wife under under an obscene name in Irish.