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Chap

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

‘Customer’, fellow, lad.

ExampleMeaning
Yeah. Well that was the summer I had the job in a drug store. And they ah there was a chap came in- kept coming in, and I knew he had a crush on me and I couldn't stand him.
Man or boy

Chesterfield

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1900, OED Evaluation: N/A

A stuffed-over couch or sofa with a back and two ends, one of which is sometimes made adjustable.

ExampleMeaning
Ah off the kitchen was a bedroom with bunks because that's the only the thing that would fit in the bedroom. My sister had one, and I had the other. The living-room ah that held a big overstuffed chesterfield, two chairs, the piano, and I don't know how they ever got all that in there (laughs), and the coffee table.
A couch or sofa

Chill

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1983, OED Evaluation: N. Amer. slang.

Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.

ExampleMeaning
And um I-don't-know it's pretty chill.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
And then I have my other- like another manager who is- she's super chill and she's su-- like she'll buy us Timmies and she'll let us go do whatever we want- like we're allowed to like just chill instead of like worrying and-stuff-like-that about what like making the store look good all the time.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
Ah yeah and then I have another manager who's pretty chill too, but other than that- like it just- it sucks going to work 'cause I never know which manager is working.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
ExampleMeaning
Um yeah, it was pretty chill.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.
ExampleMeaning
You-know, just a- just a few of us and we had two- two or three bottles of it and you-know we were just going to have a chill night and just to try it 'cause we all wanted to try it when- when we heard of it.
Free from anxiety or stress; relaxed, calm; easy-going, laid-back. Also as a general term of approval: excellent, admirable, ‘cool’.

Chum

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1884, OED Evaluation: N/A

To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).

ExampleMeaning
Half of our- the people we chummed around- nobody had vehicles that- my dad did have a vehicle just shortly after he was married, and then, when that broke down, he never bothered to- to ever buy another one, eh?
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
And I think most of my friends, I think three-quarters of the girls I chummed around with were Finn.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).

Clan

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1425, OED Evaluation: N/A

A number of persons claiming descent from a common ancestor, and associated together; a tribe.

ExampleMeaning
Well no because I- I hung around with like- I was like the type of guy in high-school that I just hung around with anybody. Like if I saw someone I'd be like "Yo what's up?" I w-- I wasn't really like- I didn't stick to like one clan or-anything. I was just like- I was like- I was in like the art-room with all the art kids, all those nerdy art kids. I always hung around with like- then I'd go and chill with like my friends- the- I-don't-know, the gamers.
Group of people associated in some way.

Conk out

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1918, OED Evaluation: Colloquial

To break down, give out, fail, or show signs of failing; to die, collapse, or lose consciousness. Also fig. Also with out.

ExampleMeaning
And like when I'm tired, and I'm in bed and I'm conking out, and I'm being asked stupid questions, I lose it.
Fall asleep

Crab

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1400, OED Evaluation: Scottish

To go counter to, to cross; to put out of humour or temper; to irritate, anger, enrage, provoke

ExampleMeaning
To do anything that's worthwhile? But anyway, so. I-mean, we can sit and crab and complain and we have all the solutions, but you-know. Nothing ever seems to amount to anything.
Whine

Crooner

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1522, OED Evaluation: Scottish or Northern dialect

A loud, deep sound, such as the bellow of a bull or the boom of a large bell.

ExampleMeaning
I looked at him, holy shit this guy's Italian. He looked like something like Perry-Como, except he wasn't that- yeah I- you know Perry-Como on T-V? Oh yeah, nice short hair eh? He was- he was a crooner. Yeah Perry-Commo- oh yeah he was- he had his own show as well.
A person with a deep, loud voice

dandy - 1

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1794, OED Evaluation: orig. U.S.

Fine, splendid, first-rate. colloq.

ExampleMeaning
... we're all Italians for Christ's sake. Anyhow, ah I would- would even call me right in front of the women, so that was it. So, we had the due and everything else fine and dandy. Wouldn't talk to me and then one day, he got a hold of me and he started at me again. And I said "Tim, I want to give you a little bit of advice, stop squaring at me, stop yelling at me 'cause I'm a little taller than you."
Fine, splendid, first-rate.
Interviewer: Ah I graduated in when I was seventeen. Speaker: Seventeen. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Okay. Fine-and-dandy. It's- it's kind-of difficult at seventeen years of age, you-know? It's an extra year of school that your parents have to help you pay for and you have to work for it. But you're also, in my estimation, too young.
Fine, splendid, first-rate.

didn't have no

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Valalonga is a little town. It's ah, smaller than this town here. And there had the houses like they're not- they weren't made like these. They were like, made out of rocks, stones, bricks, like you-know. And you didn't have no furnaces, like ah, you didn't hav-- the only water that you had the house is just like if you want to wash dishes like that. You couldn't drink.
"didn't have any"
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: And with the violent-acts happening, like the torching of houses. Speaker: Yep. Interviewer: And flipping of vehicles, Speaker: Ah, didn't have a torching of houses, didn't have- no (laughs). Interviewer: (inc) Speaker: Yeah.
"didn't have any"

dispensation

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1653, OED Evaluation: arch. or Obs.

Exemption, release from any obligation, fate, etc.; remission.

ExampleMeaning
And ah after twenty years of priesthood, he met a- a young woman who worked at the ah church in the office there. And ah they fell in love and he got his dispensation from the church and he's married with two children now. So, he has a daughter, fifteen, and a boy a couple years younger. So, he was ah he was a little ah leery when it came- when he made that decision.
Official permission to leave an institution, job, or duty.

Dog

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1905, OED Evaluation: Originally and chiefly U.S.

With it. To act lazily or half-heartedly; to slack, idle; (also) to hold back through fear or unwillingness to take a risk.

ExampleMeaning
You pay me, I will give you everything I have. I will not dog. Ah, ah, I- I have no use for people that come to work to find a way
To act lazily or half-heartedly; to slack, idle.

don't have no

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: ... like all the kids, eh. But some don't have no respect, they don't care and they just talk the way they want to talk. Interviewer: Right. Okay. Speaker: Like with the years back, you didn't find that.
"didn't have any"