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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
he would take the horse and buggy and come down North Front Street, and then along College, and up ah, Gilbert Street to our house so that the horse that I could go for a buggy ride.
Carriage
The horse decided to eat the bark off the- the tree. Ah, but I thought I was the queen of the neighbourhood, riding along with this- this horse and buggy, through Parkdale.
Carriage
ExampleMeaning
Like, I- I don't have an aerial map or haven't studied an aerial map, but there is a divide in terms of like large lots of land which are big enough in small towns like ah, forty acres, hundred acres, two-hundred acres, measured in hectares sometimes. And, so you have all these divides and I-mean, before the petroleum boom, I'm sure the communication gap was big because of like, it would've been horse-and-buggy and walking distance...
Carriage

bunk-house

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1877, OED Evaluation: N/A

A house where workmen, etc., are lodged.

ExampleMeaning
One resident who lived near an abandoned gold mine across the river had no ice problems though. They used to store their food on shelves built part way down the mine shaft, it was nice and cool down there. Two large bunk houses called the Hub were located on the bank of the Moira River on the other side of the plant from the village over looking a beautiful little falls. Here the single workmen were housed.
A house where workmen, etc., are lodged.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Ah what sort of conditions would there be for the men living there? Speaker: Well they were very good. They wa-- it was good food or most of them were and ah they had their bunks. You-know like a bunk house and bunks see? They didn't have their private bedrooms or-anything-like-that see? Just like one big auditorium with a whole bunch of bunk beds in it, that was all, see?
A house where workmen, etc., are lodged.

Cake of ice

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: My mother took me down to show me the ice, big chunks of ice floating down front street, the water was up so high you-know. Interviewer: And she called them? Speaker: Cake of ice. So I went down and thought, "Where's the cake? I thought I was going to have cake."
Big chunks of ice floating on the water

catechism

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1518, OED Evaluation: N/A

An elementary treatise for instruction in the principles of the Christian religion, in the form of question and answer; such a book accepted and issued by a church as an authoritative exposition of its teaching, as the Longer Catechism and Shorter Catechism, of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, used by the Presbyterian churches, etc.

ExampleMeaning
Um, family of four lived next door. And I found them fascinating. Um, the Lamports. Um, they all went to ah Holy-Rosary and um, when Madison who was a year younger than I, was studying for ah her- well was studying Catechism. I used to sit and hear her so that she would be able to say all the things.
Elementary instruction about the principles and beliefs of the Catholic Church.

Chap

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

‘Customer’, fellow, lad.

ExampleMeaning
That's the way this generation should do. I've seen so many chaps get a job; got married and tied down in a job he never really (inc). So, I worked in various car plants.
Man or boy
Well I was travelling at that time. I was staying in the Queen's Motel. A chap woke me up at two or three in the morning for the keys to my car.
Man or boy
ExampleMeaning
The service went on and after the service he came around and said boy was I embarrassed this morning. There was a young chap and his wife and his child down at the back seat in the church, so I went up and said welcome to St-Thomas church.
Man or boy
Then I do remember particularly, you-see I left on the twentieth of April, that was my Swan song, my last service in St-Thomas church, but the Sunday before in the legion and the army and navy chaps decided to come to church and mass.
Man or boy
This is a good one, I'll tell you this one. I went up to the eight-o'clock service one morning, about a-quarter-to-eight and here was a chap coming down the aisle with an overcoat on. I said what are you doing here, and he said well the care-taker told me come here at eight o'clock and he would give me a job.
Man or boy
ExampleMeaning
Well, now as far as Belleville goes, um a long time ago there was a chap, Jack-Brock who was a lovely singer, he made good I think in Toronto and other Canadian cities and um Neil-McGarret. He made good.
Man or boy
ExampleMeaning
Well we used the old school. Ah well I remember sitting with, in Latin class, with chap who is now a judge sitting behind me. We'd have to yell at each other because the riveters were just hammering away, putting up the steel trestles with about- within about five feet of the window.
Man or boy
ExampleMeaning
And the old chap that I had looking after the horses he was always half-mad because someone wasn't too clean and you can understand it, there was just no money, you can understand it because there was no money, nobody had money. No money for clothes and probbly a lot of them no money to buy enough soap to give them a good wash. And the old chap that looked after the horses, he was always half-mad at me, he said we're going to have some disease break out here with all those people around here.
Man or boy
ExampleMeaning
Oh well, one day a chap stopped to wish me good-luck and another car came along the other way, hit the hind end of my horse and so he threw me down this- over this fence and down a little hill.
Man or boy
ExampleMeaning
I know that he's- ah he's a lovely chap.
Man or boy
ExampleMeaning
But the next day he- no I-guess he came up and somehow he was sitting on the chesterfield and somehow money dropped out of his pocket back underneath this chesterfield cushion and I thought, "Gee, I rather like that chap." You-know, it was- yeah. So I phoned him and I said, "Jack, you left a nickel here and, you-know, I just wanted to tell you." And he said "Oh, I'll come up after it."
Man or boy
ExampleMeaning
But Bill was such a- an intelligent person that- that his chief thought "Well if they're friends of Bill's, why I don't need- I'm not going to ah require any- anything further to back their acquisition to his- his department." And so that's where we went and the middle chap there was the chief of that department-
Man or boy
ExampleMeaning
And ah, the other was the fact that um, in my teenage years, you usually have a boyfriend right? So ah, I happen to have met this chap. He wasn't a student at that time. I just don't recall how I met him.
Man or boy