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Buggy

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1773, OED Evaluation: N/A

A light one-horse (sometimes two-horse) vehicle, for one or two persons. Those in use in America have four wheels; those in England and India, two; in India there is a hood. (In recent use, esp. in U.S., India, and former British colonies.)

ExampleMeaning
Yeah, my dad always um was a-- interested in horses and showing them in- at the fairs and-stuff and then we had buggies and-stuff-like-that that we used to ah take around. We did some weddings. We pulled Stompin'-Tom when he was in Carleton-Place through the- yeah. Ah we had two buggies, we had the three-seater that day and we had ah- I think the one-seater.
Carriage
ExampleMeaning
Horse and buggy in ah- until I was in grade-nine, I-guess, we didn't have a car.
Carriage
Speaker: Ah, no, single, it was always ah, a buggy, so we all were in it somehow. Interviewer: That would be a considerable distance with the horse.
Carriage
Yes. So I assumed dad drove us over to Blakeney, horse and buggy and we got on the train and that's- then we came home that way. Now that only lasted for a couple of years and then we had a car so he could come for us. We boarded in town.
Carriage

Bunkhouse

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1878, OED Evaluation: N/A

A house where workmen are lodged

ExampleMeaning
So we drive about oh I-don't-know maybe half a kilometer down that road, pull into um Antler's lodge. He's waiting for us. He opened up one of his bunkhouses for us. We stayed there the night, had a great time.
A building providing basic sleeping accomodations for workers

burnt like a tomato

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

sunburnt

ExampleMeaning
They did say- my one fellow say after a big meal he'd say to his wife "I- do you want anymore to eat? I'm full as a tick." Interviewer: Full as a tick, yeah. Speaker: I know that he called ah um like I said my- my if I've sunburned, I'd say "I'm burnt like a tomato." Like those are sayings- the other guy was talking about a- used to call a creek, he'd call it a crick. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: The old people. "You go down to the crick," instead of saying the creek, you-know, they'd say a crick.
sunburnt

bush lot

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
And you got ah seventy-five cents a piece for them. That was- you-know that- that- that was good, that was good going in those days. ... You couldn't buy a bush lot today even with your big skidders and-stuff and pay for it in three weeks. You couldn't do it. 'Cause it's going to cost you two-hundred-thousand or three-hundred-thousand for that.
A small, wooded lot, especially a farm lot with trees left standing to provide firewood, fence posts, etc.
ExampleMeaning
... the school property was close to, um, (clears throat) my uncle's bush lot. And they'd let the older ones play hide-and-seek along the edges of the bush line. So you'd have some children going down and hiding in the- in the trees ...
A small, wooded lot, especially a farm lot with trees left standing to provide firewood, fence posts, etc.
ExampleMeaning
Ah, Samson's family. There was a girl younger than I was and then the Cameron children who lived by the river and up further on the highway. They came from there, cross the highway, came through bush lot and we met half a mile before we got to school. But that- those are the only ones.
A small, wooded lot, especially a farm lot with trees left standing to provide firewood, fence posts, etc.

Buzz off

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1914, OED Evaluation: Slang

To go (quickly). to buzz off : to go off or away quickly.

ExampleMeaning
So I told him to buzz off that night and I was standing back in the- with the crowd of the girls and Earl come along and he put him arm on my shoulder, he says, "Come on red, I want to dance."
Leave
So anyway, he come up about- oh I-guess about one-o'clock, I'm just doing the dishes and ah this other chap that was chasing me around, that I told him buzz off the night before, he drove up to the front door.
Leave

By gosh and by gorry

Parf of speech: Exclamation, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: NA

NA

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: These are all expressions that were common. Speaker 1: Yup. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker 1: Yup. Speaker 2: Yes, you certainly- Speaker 1: "By-gosh-and-by-gorry." Do you remember that one, Bertrand? Speaker 2: Yup. Speaker 1: "By-gosh-and-by-gorry?"
Used to express surprise.

By the golly

Parf of speech: Expression, OED Year: 1743, OED Evaluation: Originally US

In (by) golly = (by) God.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker 1: "Over yonder," yes. (laughs) "By-the-golly." Interviewer: Oh! Speaker 2: The gully? Oh, "by-the-golly." Speaker 1: "By-the-golly," yeah. Interviewer: Tell me about that. Speaker 1: That's just, "Oh, by-the-golly, I'll see you later-"
By the way

cant hook

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1848, OED Evaluation: U.S.

A form of lever for canting over or turning timber, etc., consisting of a wooden bar with an iron catch or hooked arm near its lower end which passes over the log, grips it, and so affords a hold by which it may be pulled over; called also cant-dog.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: ... we didn't have a log loader on the truck so you'd- you get a side hill, you'd pile the logs on side hill and dig a hole so that the truck would be level and- cant- cant hook them, cant lever them onto the- onto the- Interviewer: Can't do which? Speaker: C-- ah, cant hook. ... Cant hook indeed. ... Cant hook is a- is a- ... A cant hook has a handle like that and then has a- a- a- a steel thing that goes around like that with it.
A form of lever for canting over or turning timber, etc., consisting of a wooden bar with an iron catch or hooked arm near its lower end which passes over the log, grips it, and so affords a hold by which it may be pulled over.

Cat

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1946, OED Evaluation: Slang

A ‘regular guy’, fellow, man.

ExampleMeaning
And my son-in-law is a- he's a pretty sharp cat.
Person

Chap

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1716, OED Evaluation: Colloquial

‘Customer’, fellow, lad.

ExampleMeaning
Ah, Jackie and I ah- she fell downstairs. She lived over at garage and she fell down outside on the stairs. So we- she called ah (inc) chap called from the- when he found out what happened.
Man or boy
And they were all at- out at the Cedar's. We'd been at carp fair, this other chap and him and I wasn't getting along, we were fighting like cats and dogs.
Man or boy
So anyway, he come up about- oh I-guess about one-o'clock, I'm just doing the dishes and ah this other chap that was chasing me around, that I told him buzz off the night before, he drove up to the front door.
Man or boy
So this chap in and he said, "Lady," he said, "You're not standing up," Well I said, "I'm only- I'd-" little wee glass of this- looked like eggnog but it was brown.
Man or boy
So we come back up in there (laughs). We come to this little pub and I don't drink, like I-mean a-- they- they (inc) this chap said, they- we went in and they were sitting there the- the three of them and I was sitting, standing up because I- there was no place to sit, this little pub.
Man or boy