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pit party

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

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ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Like we would all kind of go to someone's house and hang out or we used to have pit parties I guess. Interviewer: What are pit parties? Speaker: A pit party? Well it would be like um an empty field and ah then somebody would kind-of say "Where this is where the pit party is" and then everybody would kind-of show up there and then you would- some pit parties you would camp like we would take tents and camp there and somebody- usually the music would just be out of somebody's vehicle. Um and yeah we did that on quite a few weekends I guess during the summer.
Speaker: Like we would all kind of go to someone's house and hang out or we used to have pit parties I guess. Interviewer: What are pit parties? Speaker: A pit party? Well it would be like um an empty field and ah then somebody would kind-of say "Where this is where the pit party is" and then everybody would kind-of show up there and then you would- some pit parties you would camp like we would take tents and camp there and somebody- usually the music would just be out of somebody's vehicle. Um and yeah we did that on quite a few weekends I guess during the summer.
Parties in a gravel pit
Speaker: Ah we would- I think more have house party. Like we would all kind of go to someone's house and hang out or we used to have pit parties I guess. Interviewer: What are pit parties? Speaker: A pit party? Well it would be like um an empty field and ah then somebody would kind-of say "Where this is where the pit party is" and then everybody would kind-of show up there and then you would- some pit parties you would camp like we would take tents and camp there and somebody- usually the music would just be out of somebody's vehicle.
Bonfire parties taking place at local gravel mining pits, for the most part held by teenagers and young adults at night in the wilderness.

Pretty near

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

NA

ExampleMeaning
It never used to be 'cause you s-- never used to be open seven days a week but now it's gotten to the point where it's open seven days a week and it's- pretty near went from one aspect into another.
Almost
Um, 'cause with these guys we're pretty near seven days a week running with.
Almost
ExampleMeaning
Both of us try to keep the flower beds going but that's pretty near impossible around here for the weeds.
Almost
ExampleMeaning
Like yeah. I went up there I'd- as- I said- something just was drawing me to that store and ah- yeah I stayed up there pretty near all night.
Almost

pretty well

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1576, OED Evaluation: N/A

in a satisfactory way; to a considerable extent, largely.

ExampleMeaning
We- my dad worked on the railroad. He was a second man on the railroad and we grew our own vegetables we had an acre of ground here. And that- that's pretty well everything ...
pretty much
Interviewer: Did you make any good friends during that time or? Speaker: Oh yeah, everybody pretty well is- you guys are friend.
pretty much
Interviewer: Yeah, what kind-of music and-stuff were at the dances? <051> Well, we were pretty well- ah back in the country. We were pretty well inter-- interested in square-dancing. Yeah. And uh- and the waltzes and-stuff-like-that. But ah- I- you- that stuff they do now a days I wouldn't do it. I'd break my neck.
pretty much
Interviewer: Was it always like local bands and-stuff or? Speaker: Oh pretty well yeah yeah.
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Well I used to help a bit. I don't help out now. Help out when my wife- she was in - pretty well in charge of the snacks (inc) it was her that got the- the new one built and- and she was pretty good at the bingo games we had too. Kind-of looked after them a bit so-
pretty much
Interviewer: Is that what people did? They just went to go see the train or? Speaker: Oh pretty well. And they'd visit a bit- well they- they might get a bit of knowledge or bit of B-S floating around.
pretty much
Well just- just the people who- in the village they more or less just had to sit and watch it burn for no fire trucks or- and the train came down- ca-- came back down and they used the fire-hose from it to try to put some-- but it was pretty well all burnt then.
pretty much
Interviewer: So fire was a big problem (inc) I guess. Speaker: Yeah- yeah like there was no such thing as fire protection then. If- if a guy's house burnt down they just built it again. Interviewer: Did the community really come together or-something-like-that (inc) Speaker: Pretty well yeah. And the saying in those days used to be building barns eh? They'd have a big- all people from miles around came to- for this barn raising eh, it was a big day.
pretty much
Interviewer: Has it always been this like quiet and peaceful and? Speaker: Well pretty well. Well when the- they used to have a saw-mill over there and a saw-mill down here.
pretty much
Well just the shortage of timber. Yeah. And it wasn't economical to cut logs and they would put any half-decent logs were pretty well all cut by then.
pretty much
ExampleMeaning
And ah, it- it was tough for a single lady raising three kids. Especially, we weren't very hard to- to raise- we were very- into everything. We got into more trouble ah- and actually we pretty well raised ourselves because mom was busy working just to make a living ...
pretty much
... and what happens is ah if people eat certain parts of- of- of a cow that had B-S-E, they would get sick and they would probably die. So that pretty well shut down the market for cattle. And everybody that was in farming for the last three or four years, they had a very tough time trying to make a living because the prices of your animals went down almost a half.
pretty much
ExampleMeaning
You just had to make sure that none of the buildings around it went up in flames too kind-of-thing. But that was been the most case with any fires you went to. They're pretty well fully engulfed by the time you get there.
pretty much