‘Customer’, fellow, lad.
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...when I was one year old and I was the youngest of five, four girls and one boy, ah, w-- they- the chap who lived next door came back from the First-World-War and he came to visit my dad and mother. |
Man or boy |
And he said, "At church yesterday, the chap said 'well, the war is over, I don't need to keep this farm, I put up the business.'" And you-know they used to keep a farm so that they've- their own sons didn't have to go to... |
Man or boy |
So they were walking on the platform at- at the- at the station and when dad told this friend of his, and why he was- why he was looking for a farm and what he- the- the main thing was to have a high-school there. Well, the chap said, this is maybe a little- a little- what did he say? (inc) but he said, "Don't move, Don," |
Man or boy |
Speaker: Yeah, the Five-Span-Bridge. Right on that bridge, they met a- a chap that lived in Pakenham, he was just walking but dad has shantied with him. Interviewer: He did what? Speaker: He had- he had shantied with him in- in- in their young days. |
Man or boy |
Well, the chap said, this is maybe a little- a little- what did he say? (inc) but he said, "Don't move, Don," he said, "Don't move just look on that side right where you are look- look there along that side of th-- of the track." |
Man or boy |
| Example | Meaning |
Then she'd can beef in the sum-- like for, oh, kill a beef and they'd can it and that would keep over the- over the summer |
Man or boy |
A stuffed-over couch or sofa with a back and two ends, one of which is sometimes made adjustable.
| Example | Meaning |
Speaker: You-know as far as education is concerned, education that I got you can stick down underneath that chesterfield. |
A couch or sofa |
Of birds: To utter a short series of sharp thin sounds, to twitter. Formerly used also in the senses chatter, and chirp.
| Example | Meaning |
And, ah, there wasn't, ah- there didn't seem to be a lot of- a lot of chitter about that- that sort of thing. |
Chatter, talk. |
A serenade of ‘rough music’, with kettles, pans, tea-trays, and the like, used in France, in mockery and derision of incongruous or unpopular marriages, and of unpopular persons generally; hence a confused, discordant medley of sounds; a babel of noise.
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...the young lad ah they bailed out of bed after the parents left, they bailed out of bed and they came on a chivaree with- with the rest of the kids in this neighbourhood. They ah, they came in here but Barnes knew they were coming so he had the door barred and- and ah, the one young um, lad headed... |
Lynching someone by riding them on a rail, tar and feathering |
Interviewer: Now, you mentioned a term that I haven't heard before. You said something like 'shi-vah-ree'? What is that-? Speaker: Chivaree. That's what they called a chivaree when they- they took tar and feathered him and rode him on a rail to Hopetown. That's what they- the term 'chivaree' was. |
Lynching someone by riding them on a rail, tar and feathering |
Interviewer: Now, you mentioned a term that I haven't heard before. You said something like 'shi-vah-ree'? What is that-? Speaker: Chivaree. That's what they called a chivaree when they- they took tar and feathered him and rode him on a rail to Hopetown. That's what they- the term 'chivaree' was. |
Lynching someone by riding them on a rail, tar and feathering |
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
| Example | Meaning |
Maybe, they- they had chummed together all their lives |
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone). |
| Example | Meaning |
Walker and Era and I- the four of us used to chum together all the time. |
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone). |
| Example | Meaning |
My dad used to go and pick his dad up and they'd go to dances before I ever knew who they were. They chummed together. |
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone). |
| Example | Meaning |
He had two boys that were just about the same age as I was so we all chummed back and forth so I probably knew him better than- than any of them because I used to go to their place and chum with them- back and forth with the boys eh? |
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone). |
| Example | Meaning |
Annabelle chums around with one of the Darcy girls and she said, "Oh such a nice house, grandma." |
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone). |
Until we started to high-school but then in high-school, you-know, I had some friends that went to Saint-Mary's school and so on but we all, the whole group of us, you-know, some the country boys and town girls we all chummed around and yeah, so- |
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone). |
An artificial reservoir for the storage of water; esp. a watertight tank in a high part of a building, whence the taps in various parts of it are supplied.
| Example | Meaning |
The water from the cistern downstairs. |
An artificial reservoir for the storage of water; esp. a watertight tank in a high part of a building, whence the taps in various parts of it are supplied. |
| Example | Meaning |
Interviewer: No power? Speaker: No, we didn't have that. Speaker: Yeah. Just no cistern pumping, that was it. |
An artificial reservoir for the storage of water; esp. a watertight tank in a high part of a building, whence the taps in various parts of it are supplied. |
| Example | Meaning |
Um, she had a s-- a cistern there. And, ah, she used to wash with that. |
An artificial reservoir for the storage of water; esp. a watertight tank in a high part of a building, whence the taps in various parts of it are supplied. |