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Big-time

Parf of speech: NA, OED Year: 1910, OED Evaluation: Colloquial. Originally United States.

1. With the. The best kind, the highest rank; a state or example of excellence, fame, etc. to hit the big time: to become notable or famous. 2. To a great degree, on a large scale; extremely

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Yeah, okay, so curling was a popular sport. Speaker: Oh big time.
Very - intensifier

binder

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1857, OED Evaluation: N/A

A contrivance attached to a reaping-machine to bind up the grain as cut into sheaves; also, a separate machine used for binding up the grain

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: But ah, I- I- I learned a lot there, sure did. Interviewer: What kind of things did you learn? Can you tell us a little bit- Speaker: Well. Interviewer: About that? Speaker: Well, I was the repair man. Interviewer: Oh? Speaker: Yes. I liked machinery and remember I had a binder there when dad said- it- it had a wooden bottom in it. Well c-- g-- get riding over stones, it- it got broke up, you-know. So dad said this one time, he said, "You got- can you put a b-- bottom in that?" And I said, "Yes I can."
A contrivance attached to a reaping-machine to bind up the grain as cut into sheaves; also, a separate machine used for binding up the grain
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: A different way of ah putting the hay away then from just putting it in loose and back in those days when you had the old binder. Dad did a lot of cursing in those binders.
A contrivance attached to a reaping-machine to bind up the grain as cut into sheaves; also, a separate machine used for binding up the grain
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: So they would cut the grain with the binder and would b-- be done up in stooks. Interviewer 2: Right. Interviewer 1: Yes, okay. Speaker: And then people went- neighbours went to the next neighbour and the thrashing mill would come and neighbours would bring this- load these stooks of grain on their wagon
A contrivance attached to a reaping-machine to bind up the grain as cut into sheaves; also, a separate machine used for binding up the grain

Bolton fence

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: And do they all have different names, these styles? Speaker: There was one- the only different one that I know of we call it the Bol-- Bolton fence. He put his pickets in a little different and- but other than that they were just- they were called a split rail or- or a patent fence. But they just put in a picket different and-
A split-rail fence; i.e., a fence made with horizontal rails and upright posts, done in the style of the local Bolton family.

Bomby

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Um, you-know my father-in-law and us used to be in the bush a lot too so we were always- we'd log in the winter and-stuff-like-that and- then we'd cut wood up for Ferguson-Lake campground, we cut their wood as well. Yeah, so we had a little bomby that ah we'd use to ah haul out- Interviewer: What's a bomby? Speaker: A bomby is a little- you-know the s- the little things that they clean the streets with now? Interviewer: Oh yes. Speaker: Well they- they w-- are called bombies, anyways so they would pull the trees out of the ah bush but in the wintertime you got the ice so you're able to get onto the marshes and the- you-know where it's flooded to get the- the dead elm and-stuff-like-that.
the little things that they clean the streets

Boon

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1500, OED Evaluation: N/A

A favour, a gift, a thing freely or graciously bestowed

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: By this time I was married and- yeah, in forty-eight when we got hydro. Interviewer: Yeah, yeah. Speaker: That was a big boon.
Something helpful or beneficial

Boonies

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1954, OED Evaluation: North American slang. Originally U.S Military

The jungle; wild or rough country; (hence) a remote or unpopulated area

ExampleMeaning
I ain't kidding you. It was unbelievable, 'round creeks and rivers and over hills and around corners and- way back to the boonies. So I (inc) found the place. We heads in long long back into the bush type-thing.
Rural country or a jungle
Interviewer: Well you get to see the very backwoods of the boonies. Speaker: Oh, there's lots of boonies. That's one episode, I could tell you several others but…
Rural country or a jungle
It was going across down the wall, about three feet up and then disappeared. Still didn't figure out what the idea this was. So we decided when we left here, we're going to go out that door. So we did. We went out that door and he used propane. Two big propane tanks sitting outside the door, yeah. Back in the boonies where's there no...
Rural country or a jungle
It's only a lamb." And it went out down the full length of that one field, crossed the end of it heading into the boonies, eh?
Rural country or a jungle
That's when- meanwhile, he get out on the road and they're- it wouldn't be as bad as if he lived back in the boonies but he lived out near the road and people, you see these poor sheep and people take clips of them.
Rural country or a jungle

Boutique

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
But, I mean, my- my sister would cook and then we'd have all these great yummy things and we- we'd be playing and maybe we- tie-dyeing something or boutiquing or-whatever but we never- I never felt like the little girl that my sister didn't want around. You-know, my sister was always good to me. We got along really well. There were certain rules in the house.
Shopping

brood sow

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

female pig

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: I don't really remember milking the cows that much before I came home but I remember one time he had to go out and he had a- a brood sow that had- that had our little piglets. Interviewer: What did he have? Speaker: A- a sow. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: A brood sow.
female pig

buck-fever

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1841, OED Evaluation: N/A

Nervous excitement of an inexperienced hunter upon the approach of game

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer 1: (Laughs) He took the jitters. Speaker: He took buck fever and it was close too (coughs). Interviewer 2: Now what's that, buck fever? Interviewer 1: Well he just got so jittery, he couldn't shoot (laughs). Speaker: (Laughs)
Nervous excitement of an inexperienced hunter upon the approach of game
Speaker: The next morning I got a bottle of Smarties and fixed them up, took them up and give them to him, they were buck fever. Interviewer: (Laughs)
Nervous excitement of an inexperienced hunter upon the approach of game

Bugger

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1936, OED Evaluation: Course slang

Something unpleasant or undesirable; a great nuisance

ExampleMeaning
He was one of the snarliest, ugliest little buggers I ever was 'round in my life.
A bother/pain
Wednesday night is wing night. My son cooks it. He's a good cook, he cooks up so I go up for supper on Wednesday night and that's it. Hour up and an hour back. Couple of hours there. Dirty buggers, they always try to- want you to have a drink or two, you-know? And that's bad.
A bother/pain
ExampleMeaning
Meanwhile there's no compensation (laughs) for the bugger (laughs). Yeah, made you wonder made you think right there. But anyway there was no...
A bother/pain
So, we made the date and what-not and then clip the- "You're the bugger that was in here a f-- few years ago." (laughs) He'd recognized you. "Yeah, I'm back again." So, we clipped the five or the fi-- the seven sheep.
A bother/pain