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Free-wheely

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
And ah anyway I knew that he's not suppose to drop you, free-wheely, but he did, 'cause you go down faster.
In manual transmission going without being in gear

Frigging or fricking

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1560, OED Evaluation: NA

used as a coarse expletive.

ExampleMeaning
And it sucked and everything, but we drank there and got pissed or whatever. And then we were so fricking hun-- like, hungry, and we were like, "Do we wait to get foodtil we're done at Honest-Lawyer?"Cause it was early, it was only, like, eleven-thirty.
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
People can't say frigging "milk" properly. They say "melk". It's not fucking melk. It's milk.
used as a coarse expletive.
Meanwhile in English, when I'm learning stupid frigging words for wammy-vocab that I don't even need, I'm obviously not going to pick on thatcause it's stupid and nobody's going to use that.
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
So hey, I'll bring my little brother. And then he started going online playing frigging W-O-W or-whatever bullshit and (laughs) um- then he met this girl online and then he kind-of you-know pushed me away.
used as a coarse expletive.
And he's mad at me for shutting off his computer like it's a frigging game, you can turn it back on and keep playing.
used as a coarse expletive.
Yeah. Well it was- it was frigging- it was stupid.
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
I never hear anyone say it except for people at work because I say it. But (laughs) I don't- if I say that, frigging other cities they'd probably be like, "What the H-and-R-block?" Oh see like, that too! I always say, "What the H-and-R-Block"cause I don't say- like saying "What the hell,"cause that's like kind of like saying God's name in vain-
used as a coarse expletive.

Funner or Funnest

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1727, OED Evaluation: N/A

As noun: Diversion, amusement, sport; also, boisterous jocularity or gaiety, drollery. Also, a source or cause of amusement or pleasure.

ExampleMeaning
Julie's friends can be funner than mine sometimes, so.
Superlative/comparative form of fun.
ExampleMeaning
Got- walk to- to and from school, which in winter wasn't the funnest, but we did it.
Superlative/comparative form of fun.
ExampleMeaning
It's the funnest place you can go to; I love it there.
Superlative/comparative form of fun.
ExampleMeaning
It was a lot funner that way
Superlative/comparative form of fun.
I'm trying to think. Little boys are always the funnest to baby-sit 'cause they're crazy.
Superlative/comparative form of fun.
ExampleMeaning
'Cause Dominos is the funnest game in the whole world.
Superlative/comparative form of fun.

Gadzook

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Some of it used to make me so angry, like our laws and how they came about and- and how they are not followed through on in some circumstances and how they're followed through in- through in others and it just used to upset me to no end during course time. Oh gadzooks.
(Exclamation) Oh no

gal

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1795, OED Evaluation: colloq. and regional (now chiefly N. Amer. and Caribbean).

Girl (in various senses)

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: ... 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.
Girl, young lady.

Golly

Parf of speech: Exclamation, OED Year: 1743, OED Evaluation: Origin U.S.

In (by) golly = (by) God.

ExampleMeaning
And he gave me names dates people and ah I followed up on it, and by golly yes May Run started in this area.
In (by) golly = (by) God.

Grade thirteen

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
... pre-kindergarten and kindergarten. So it was, like, the- the half day in the morning or half day in the afternoon for the first two years and then grade one and then went up to grade six in elementary-school for Catholic. And then, pretty much right up to ah grade thirteen, I did the Catholic school system.
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long).
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Anyhow, now I've digressed in many ways but ah really- I'm talking, I- I ended up ah, when I gradua-- I graduated from high-school, I repeated grade thirteen. And ah, my own fault, nobody else's, when you come down to it, I didn't do the work, so I had to repeat. So I took extra subjects, bettered my marks, and then I ended up going to Queen's-University for two years.
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long).
... as we called it in those days, normal-school, not teacher's-college. It was called normal-school. So I applied and I got in. Now, when I went to normal-school I was twenty-four years old. Anyhow it was a one-year course then, because you graduate from grade thirteen, it was a one-year course. And then they switched it a couple years later. Switched it, you could go from grade twelve but you had to take two years at normal-school. Anyhow so- and now it's become a teacher's-college.
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long).