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A little ways

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1568, OED Evaluation: Colloq (chiefly N. Amer.)

A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Okay. Do you um remember ah at work at any time when it's someone else from another department (inc) or someone being severely injured or ah any emergency procedures (inc) or? Speaker: Well, stepping back a little ways, there was the- there was an instance. I worked at the MacIntyre ah 'til January of eighty, and just after I left, there was a worker that I used to work with had his arm torn off.
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.

Across the way

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

A track prepared or available for travelling along; a road, street, lane, or path. Now esp. in phrases like beside, over, across the way, the other side (of) the way, to cross the way, etc.

ExampleMeaning
Um, I also had a lot of British, because they came over when Kidd-Creek opened. So my next door across the way was the head of the lab at Kidd-Creek and so on and Percy-Blithely was one of the head miners and-so-on, and so I had a lot of British right around here too.
Something that is nearby but a small walk; a place on the other side of a street

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
... there's a lot for me to learn. And this band is corporate. It's- it's not an Indie band, like he's played in- in town here locally. ... Um, this is a corporate affair. And he's got an entertainment lawyer, he's going to have a business manager. He's got ah two band managers you-know, one being- both of them being from the- you-know, very successful pop backgrounds ...
A public or social occasion; an event, gathering, party, etc., often of a specified sort.

Alleys

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1720, OED Evaluation: N/A

A toy marble (marble n. 11a), orig. one of high quality made from marble or alabaster, later also one made from glass or other material. Also (occas.) attrib. in alley taw

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Oh yes, yes. Hopscotch as well. And we played alleys. I can't remember what you call the game, but we all c-- went to school with alleys. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Marbles? Interviewer: Oh yeah, yeah. Speaker: We called them alleys back then. Interviewer: Oh really?
Marbles

Arse

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

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

ExampleMeaning
Ah, grade school- well, early schooling was you-know, you went to school, you did your thing. If not, you got a boot in the arse.
Ass

Assay

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1386, OED Evaluation: N/A

The trial of metals, by ‘touch,’ fire, etc.; the determination of the quantity of metal in an ore or alloy; or of the fineness of coin or bullion.

ExampleMeaning
My parents were born in Northern-Ontario and ah they came to South-Porcupine in ninteen-thirty-six. Ah and um dad had a job in a ah assay office at the Panmore-Mine. And ah the Panmore-Mine at that time was ah ah mining very low grade ore, he was told not to bother buying a house because they expectancy of the mine was only about fourteen months.
The trial of metals, by ‘touch,’ fire, etc.; the determination of the quantity of metal in an ore or alloy; or of the fineness of coin or bullion.
Interviewer: Lead was also a big issue. Speaker: Yeah, I'm not sure ah what kind of fumes of- I guess lead gets burned off in the ah- Interviewer: Fire assay. Speaker: That- yeah and that's what he did first, was fire-assaying. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Well that's all he did then. And then ah he went back to ah Haileybury School of Mines and took a- a course in ah atomic absorption.
The trial of metals, by ‘touch,’ fire, etc.; the determination of the quantity of metal in an ore or alloy; or of the fineness of coin or bullion.
Speaker: Oh he was very proud of it. And he was very very clean, um and that was something that ah didn't meet with a lot of approval but he wa-- but by the way he was the first man to hire a women in the assay office. Interviewer: Oh really? Speaker: Yup. So she was the first gal- besides office work, but he was the- he was- he hired the first female.
The trial of metals, by ‘touch,’ fire, etc.; the determination of the quantity of metal in an ore or alloy; or of the fineness of coin or bullion.

Assayer

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1423, OED Evaluation: N/A

One who assays metals.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: So then ah you said that your- well your father was- I- I'm assuming was working at the- he- where did you say he was working? Speaker: He was assayer. Interviewer: Okay. He was- he was an assayer at the mine? Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. I work in the assay lab actually. Speaker: Oh do you? Oh well he was the chief assayer at Panmore. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: He'd gone to ah the Haileybury School of Mines.
One who assays metals (i.e., one responsible for the trial of metals, by ‘touch,’ fire, etc., and the determination of the quantity of metal in an ore or alloy, or of the fineness of coin or bullion.)
Interviewer: ... but ah were you ever worried for your father and his work and the job that he did? Speaker: Just the year that um ah they tried to form unions. Interviewer: Oh okay. Speaker: And ah ah he wasn't management, he was the assistant assayer at the time. And ah they were two unions that were trying to organize. And one was known as, a red one, I think they called it. Um and it- it was a chance time and then there was the year of the strikes.
One who assays metals (i.e., one responsible for the trial of metals, by ‘touch,’ fire, etc., and the determination of the quantity of metal in an ore or alloy, or of the fineness of coin or bullion.)
Speaker: Do you know when I first started working for the O-N-R, ah in fifty- nineteen (inc) I guess it would be about fifty-four, I was making more money than my father. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: You-know? And he was the chief-assayer? Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: You-know when you think of comparisons. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: And I didn't know that until he did my income tax that year (laughs). And ah and you-know- and I was a high-school drop-out.
One who assays metals (i.e., one responsible for the trial of metals, by ‘touch,’ fire, etc., and the determination of the quantity of metal in an ore or alloy, or of the fineness of coin or bullion.)

Assaying

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1728, OED Evaluation: spec.

The trial of metals.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: We still do use atomic-absorption machines though. Speaker: Mm-hm. But you're mainly doing fire-assaying. Interviewer: I don't do fire-assaying. Speaker: No no. But I meant is that the ah- Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: They (inc) Interviewer: It's- it's- it's one of the second last steps I think, actually.
The trial of metals.

back-sack

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Yeah, I called it packsack just now eh? Or a bag. Yeah, "Grab your bag, kids. Kids, grab your bag. Pa-- unpack your bags, kids." Yeah gr-- ah oh, we- and you know what? The kids need a new packsack. Back-sack- back-pack. Back-pack might be the back country you-know in the- back-pack, that's you-know when you do hiking in it. Yeah that's a- that's a word.
A bag or other container used to transport a bundle of goods; a rucksack.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: ... what would you call the bag that you put your books in to bring to school. Speaker: Well, in my days we didn't have a bag, we carried them under our arms. ... But, ah ah, backpack is what- the only thing I, ah- I've ever heard. Interviewer: Well, your- your children being the age they are now, have you ever heard your children refer, ah- 'cause I know their generation definitely would have had it- have you ever heard them refer to it as a packsack? Speaker: Ah, I've heard the word "packsack", we've always had that word here. ... Interviewer: 'Cause, I grew up talking- calling it that way and even to this day I still call it a packsack, so. Speaker: Yeah. Ah, packsack comes from ah, back in- in the days when ah, before the railway came in. ... And- and the p-- back, ah, b-- backsack, ah- that's how they moved all the material.
A bag or other container used to transport a bundle of goods; a rucksack.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Um, well I refer to it a-- as a backpack. ... Um, most of the people in my generation would usually call it that too. There are a few people that would call it a back-sack, or-something. Interviewer: A pack-sack? Speaker: Or yes, pack-sack right? yes I have heard back-sack. It's kind of funny. Interviewer: Wow, I haven't heard that one before. Speaker: No. That was the first time I've ever heard it, but really it's all mostly backpack.
A bag or other container used to transport a bundle of goods; a rucksack.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: What about like ah, for example Kelly's going to take her books to school. What would she put it in. Speaker: Oh yeah well that one- that one gets switched all the time. You've got a back-pack, a back-sack, and there's anoth-- Interviewer 2: Pack-sack. Speaker: And pack-sack. So sometimes because I take care of six other children you- you never know quite which one is going to come out of my mouth because I've used all three. Because it depends on what their family calls it.
A bag or other container used to transport a bundle of goods; a rucksack.

bag-pack

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: What would you call that object? Speaker: A bag? A bag-pack? Interviewer: What? Speaker: A
A bag or other container used to transport a bundle of goods; a rucksack.

baked

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1978, OED Evaluation: N. Amer.

Intoxicated by a drug, typically marijuana.

ExampleMeaning
When I- when I work- I don't w-- I want to be sober because what if someone comes to talk to me. I'm like- no I don't want to be all baked. I'm like "Hey, what's up man? (inc) What do you mean?" So I'm like- I go- so I go pick up trash, I do my work and then I come back like maybe for lunch I take like an hour lunch.
Intoxicated by a drug, typically marijuana.
... she's talking to him but he's like yelling his answers. He's like this "No. No!" He's like putting his hand in her face going like "No, no!" And I'm like watching him and I'm like- at the time I'm drunk and also a bit baked so I'm like laughing my ass off.
Intoxicated by a drug, typically marijuana.
... so it was me, Andy, maybe sometimes someone else would come up- ... So like yeah, we'd all just blaze and we just fucking get so fucking baked. Watch Youtube videos and such. Watch Heroes.
Intoxicated by a drug, typically marijuana.