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Affair - 3

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1550, OED Evaluation: N/A

A subject or situation under consideration; a matter at hand; a matter to be dealt with; an issue. Also: an occurrence, a sequence of events.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: It's so sudden. Speaker: But I-mean I'm just telling you that she- she asked Dave for a drink or- a- an aspirin I believe- if the stor-- you-know I-mean I only know what people tell me. That ah- but it was a sad affair. Really and truly she wasn't old. Interviewer: Yeah those things are tragic when they happen.
A subject or situation under consideration; a matter at hand; a matter to be dealt with; an issue. Also: an occurrence, a sequence of events.

Big-time

Parf of speech: NA, OED Year: 1910, OED Evaluation: Colloquial. Originally United States.

1. With the. The best kind, the highest rank; a state or example of excellence, fame, etc. to hit the big time: to become notable or famous. 2. To a great degree, on a large scale; extremely

ExampleMeaning
And I- well mom and dad put me through ah drivers-ed to so it's better on your insurance, big time.
A lot or much - intensifier
ExampleMeaning
She was born in nineteen-twenty, the same year that my dad was born and she's still running the store and her- her daughter's trying to get her to give it up because it is a lot for her. Um, yeah it's- it's changed big-time. I know they've got the rec-center there and- and I think for the elderly people there is a lot of them to do.
A lot - intensifier
Like ah we are farmers. I always took a lot of pride in that but that too has changed big-time. Now I think the only smart farmer is the one that knows enough to sell.
A lot - intensifier
ExampleMeaning
Speaker 2: But people do, they'll say- they'll say "oh well I wonder who that is?" And "I wonder where they're going." Speaker 1: Oh its nosey big-time.
Very - intensifier
Interviewer: Well I know you're missing out on things that could be beneficial and to bring people to the community. Like Speaker 1: Tourists, attractions big-time. Interviewer: Or even just activities for young families.
Very much - intensifier

Boxcar

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1856, OED Evaluation: U.S.

a large closed-in railway goods wagon.

ExampleMeaning
I used to hull the lumber to Toronto when I drove a truck. Well to start with, you'd load the lumber on the ro-- railroad car eh? And the boxcar but then when they got these big trucks the trucks got to be more economical than the railroads.
a large closed-in railway goods wagon.

bugger off

Parf of speech: Phrase, OED Year: 1922, OED Evaluation: N/A

To go away, depart.

ExampleMeaning
... but he didn't have enough sense to go to anybody and say "hey my little brother's out there. You-know, can somebody help him." You-know. I don't know what he did. He just buggered off for the day and forgot about me. So ah that- that was somethings and- and we were in to escapades like that all the time. Like, we just- we just run around and sort-of raised ourself.
To go away, depart.

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
Well what they're trying to do, they're to p-- trying to get um people in period custom. Way back in eighteen-hundreds, hundred-and-fifty years ago I-guess. Um so there will be a few of those. Ah they'll be old vintage cars, ah house and buggies, horses.
Carriage

Chum

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

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

ExampleMeaning
Huh, I met her, actually one of my friends was ah- that I chummed around with in Fenelon, ah, was going out with her at the time and I come up here and ah I started going out with her older sister Dana.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
That's how Maggie- I-mean she- her and Amanda used to chum together all the time and they u-- another thing they used to do volley-ball but I know that they done- ah ah she- she took a lot of- there was ah- an experienced woman that ah done sewing-
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).

Civic Holiday

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Yeah actually, they're- I think they're coming up to their thirty-first or thirty-second year of the annual lob-ball. So that's been an annual thing and it's always Civic-Holiday-Weekend. So it used to be a- a huge ah weekend thing.
A public holiday celebrated in most of Canada on the first Monday of August.
... our short-stop and him and Mandy and Sam and Bob, are my sister-in-law and two nephews, would all come up and they would camp out for, for the whole weekend, and stay- they'd actually come up Thursday and make a big long-weekend out of it for Civic-Holiday weekend. So ah, that was always a lot of fun. Always had a beer-tent set up down there and-stuff-like-that so, lotta- lotta fun.
A public holiday celebrated in most of Canada on the first Monday of August.

Dibs

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1757, OED Evaluation: N/A

A thick sweet syrup made from grape-juice in Eastern countries; also, a similar syrup made from dates.

ExampleMeaning
So I-mean all you do is fill it out and you get first dibs on what- where you wanna be.
Used to claim/express a right to something.

Do

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1824, OED Evaluation: Originally English regional and nonstandard

A social event, a party; a performance or show.

ExampleMeaning
My wife wa-- helped run it. But the two girls still on it but they've kind-of retired now and- and the younger ones have taken over but- there's still a good do which is all next weekend and it's a good do for the community.
Informal way of saying party or social gathering.
My wife wa-- helped run it. But the two girls still on it but they've kind-of retired now and- and the younger ones have taken over but- there's still a good do which is all next weekend and it's a good do for the community.
Informal way of saying party or social gathering.
ExampleMeaning
...it never affected me because there was never any money in our family for Christmas presents and-stuff-like-that anyway. And ah, as I got older, when my birthday ah was at Christmas ah, everybody ah you-know always made a big do- do out of it so
Informal way of saying party or social gathering.

Four-wheel

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1848, OED Evaluation: N/A

A four-wheeled carriage.(noun)

ExampleMeaning
They love to four-wheel.
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.
ExampleMeaning
You got-yo-- - you do a lot of stuff like- snow, like lot of outdoor stuff. Um, that's what I'm into, so- I go snow-mobiling a lot and four-wheeling in the summer and-I-don't-know-
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.

fowl supper

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: We used to have our homecoming in May. We used to have the lob-ball in the fall. Then we used to have New-Year's and Christmas down here- Christmas and New-Years down here. Interviewer: (inc) Speaker: Used to hav-- yup, Strawberry-Suppers, Fowl-Suppers and they're still on, but there's a lot of things that we don't do anymore.
A harvest meal, usually held by church or other religion, where poultry is served as a main course.