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DCHP-3 (Feb 2025)
n. — especially Manitoba, in some parts of Ontario
a wet foot after stepping into a puddle.
Type: 5. Frequency — There is competition between soaker, today the dominant term in most Ontario locations, and booter, which is attested in apparent-time from the Ontario Dialects Project for Thunder Bay, ON, from the 1960s (see the 2018 quotation; Image 1). The term booter seems more frequent in parts of the Prairies, particularly in Manitoba (see 1993 and 2000 quotations).
See: soaker
Quotations
1993
Get a booter or slip in a puddle? No problem, step across the road to be met with good humor and dry clothes.
2000
JOE: VARIATION ON A THEME.
[Joe's Rant, TV Commercial for Molson brewery, 2000]
I'm not a farmer, a gang member or an arsonist.
I don't live in a sod hut, and I don't eat Red River cereal every day for breakfast.
[...]
It's a jambuster, not a jelly doughnut. A nip, not a hamburger.
When you step in a freezing puddle in spring it's a booter, not a soaker.
It's pronounced Por-tij and Main, not Por-taj and Main.
[...]
My name is Joe!!! AND I AM MANITOBAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by an unrepentant
Winnepegger.
[Joe's Rant, TV Commercial for Molson brewery, 2000]
I'm not a farmer, a gang member or an arsonist.
I don't live in a sod hut, and I don't eat Red River cereal every day for breakfast.
[...]
It's a jambuster, not a jelly doughnut. A nip, not a hamburger.
When you step in a freezing puddle in spring it's a booter, not a soaker.
It's pronounced Por-tij and Main, not Por-taj and Main.
[...]
My name is Joe!!! AND I AM MANITOBAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by an unrepentant
Winnepegger.
2010
Where I'm from people say "dint" to mean a dent in something, usually a car door.
when you step in a puddle you get a "soaker" but some people on the other side of town call it a "booter"
when you step in a puddle you get a "soaker" but some people on the other side of town call it a "booter"
2013
"Typically at this time of year, we're moving things off, because we don't want things to get caught" by the breakup, Jordan said. While the thick ice itself will be safe for walking for another month, there's water in too many places, he said. "Some places, it's three to four inches deep -- you'd get a booter" by trying to skate through standing water, not to mention having lousy skating. "There's no point skating," said Jordan.
2018
smason_3.txt laughs) <032> Okay so- and- and- we've had this conversation before with people, and I- I think it came up in this atmosphere, too. Like booter. If you get your boo-- if you get wet- if you get wet in your boots, it's a booter. <032> Yeah. <032> No. <032> And so
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