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A sitting down

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1635, OED Evaluation: N/A

To hold a meeting

ExampleMeaning
o he phoned Miles and Miles come in and got me but dad really give- give them a sitting down about. "That's booze. Give him a drink of water that'd be good enough." Oh, no wasn't good enough.
a talk

Adze

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

A tool similar to an axe, with a blade set at right angles to the shaft and curving inwards towards it, used for cutting or slicing away the surface of wood. Also: the blade itself.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer 1: So this is the original wood in here, is it? This- this- Speaker: Um, the- the logs, yeah. Yeah. Look it- I said those guys, I said that the- they're all hand hewed, like, with an adze. You can see with the- the big adze mark. Interviewerer 2: I can. Right from here. Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. Interviewer 1: Yes. My goodness. So how old would that be? W-- how far back? Speaker: I-think in the eighteen hundreds because it was Harvey's- that's my husband- great-great-grandfather.
type of cutting tool with a thin, curved blade
Interviewer 1: So this is the original wood in here, is it? This- this- Speaker: Um, the- the logs, yeah. Yeah. Look it- I said those guys, I said that the- they're all hand hewed, like, with an adze. You can see with the- the big adze mark. Interviewerer 2: I can. Right from here. Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. Interviewer 1: Yes. My goodness. So how old would that be? W-- how far back? Speaker: I-think in the eighteen hundreds because it was Harvey's- that's my husband- great-great-grandfather.
Interviewer: How lovely. And he's- your here on his property. Yes, you can see the marks. Speaker: Yeah. (inc) if he used an adze or a big, wide, broad axe.

Affair - 1

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1835, OED Evaluation: N/A

An object or item that has been created or assembled for a particular purpose, often in a somewhat improvised manner; an invention; a contrivance.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And that was pushed down and then you used a fork and put hay in the manger. Interviewer: And the oats went separately? Speaker: Yes in a- what you'd say, in a bin or in a little wooden box affair. I also cleaned out the horses.
An object or item that has been created or assembled for a particular purpose, often in a somewhat improvised manner; an invention; a contrivance.

Affair - 2

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1736, OED Evaluation: N/A

A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

ExampleMeaning
Everybody worked. ... It was a family affair (laughs).
A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

Aladdin lamp

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
...ah, I should say that we- that light there is from the old place, that's the Aladdin lamp. It was a coal oil light. And- and that was one of the other ones, they...
Type of old lamp

Arse

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1000, OED Evaluation: N/A

The fundament, buttocks, posteriors, or rump of an animal.

ExampleMeaning
And they said (coughs)- one lad asked the other, "You got any butter?" He said, "Yes." "Give Missus-so-and-so a pound and tell her to grease her arse and get off the line."
Ass

awfully

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1816, OED Evaluation: slang.

As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely; (also) very badly.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: ... like a lot of people when they came to the wake, they said "And you're left with those two little children." Like as if it was an awful burden. But what I'd have done without those two children, I don't know. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: They've been awfully good. And they never caused me any problem and they're- they're very good to me.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
... they didn't have their father. And ah, the- it made ah, th-- no-- ah, I had a sister and her husband that was awfully good to us. And they'd see every summer we got a holiday and take us away for a while or go to a cottage and-so-on. And there was different people were kind to us. And ah, no I- I'm not looking for pity.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
Oh yeah and he'd always go and get the bag and bring it out and put it in- I had a wagon and you see he'd put it in the wagon for me. Oh yeah, he was awfully good with me.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
... they had the new- add the new curriculum and you had to teach social studies and ah, and the British-Empire had to be taught, like India, and you-know, but it was awfully hard to get- to get enough- to get enough time, y-- you just had four minutes to teach each half-hour grade, you-know, bu-- it were eight pupil, or eigh-- eight classes and if you- but the teach-- they- inspectors didn't realize that ...
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
But it had- like, the chimney had been rebuilt. We had a- had a- had the chimneys rebuilt. Ah, not that awfully long before that but I didn't trust them, so.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
But my dad loved to be with his kids, loved to be with his wife and would drive home, um, and get up- I remember it was just awfully hard to say good-bye to him. I found it very hard, ah, personally. He was- I was probably his little right-hand assistant.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.
ExampleMeaning
... my next teacher she was um an excellent teacher um Molly-Cobain and ah so I think she helped- helped with the transition 'cause we were still- like, we were awfully young.
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely.

Back-kitchen

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1784, OED Evaluation: NA

Applied to a part of a house or building which lies behind, and is usually subsidiary to the front or main part bearing the name, as back-building, a building behind forming an appendage to a main building, back-chamber, back-court, back-drawing-room, back-garden (also transf. and fig.), back-kitchen, back-parlour, back porch, back shed, etc.

ExampleMeaning
But he- he'd a dill-- or, back kitchen about the size of this thing here and he'd- lined with crocks. And he- dandelion wine and rhubarb wine and beet wine.
A second kitchen generally used in the summer.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Well, a lot of homes had like what they called a back-kitchen. They move out there. We had- now, some people didn't have a back-kitchen but- So could you describe what that was like? Back-kitchen. Speaker: Well, there was a wood- had to be wood-stove in the back-kitchen, too. It's was (inc) you had of cooking.
A second kitchen generally used in the summer.
Kept the rest of the house cooler. If you moved to the back-kitchen. But I know everybody didn't have one.
A second kitchen generally used in the summer.
ExampleMeaning
Um, we had freezer. We had a big freezer, yeah out in the back kitchen at that time but I remember them talking about ah root cellars and-stuff.
A second kitchen generally used in the summer.
Mo-- mostly us we had just- our dogs were part of the house like, you-know, not that they st-- didn't stay at the house at night but they stayed out in the back kitchen or-whatever.
A second kitchen generally used in the summer.