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hydro - 3

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1916, OED Evaluation: N/A

Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.

ExampleMeaning
... remember ah few years ago when we had a bad tornado out east? ... He went out there to help ah cut the fallen trees for the Hydro and-that-sort-of-thing. So he just carried on from there and kept working in the tree business.
The local hydroelectric company (usually either Ontario Hydro or Toronto Hydro).

I says

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
That place called the- oh I forget what the name of the ah- something there anyway. And they are anyway, he- there were having a- I was getting something- this and that for the band. And he says, "Well, what do you do?" I says, "Well I play the pipe a little bit, not real good." "Oh," he says, "You're good and tall," he says, "You should be the drum major."
"I say", "I said"

ice house

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1666, OED Evaluation: Hist.

A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place.

ExampleMeaning
... my brother was up at this place cutting ice in the lake. You know how they- how they would go out in the lakes and cut bi-- the water was pure then and they would cut these big blocks of ice- ... And put them in ice houses with saw dust. Clean saw dust, they'd get clean saw dust from the mills and it would- they would pile it in these things you put saw dust on another block of ice and these blocks were about this big and they would literally cut them out of the lake. Once you got a hole open, then you got them up and then you put them on a sleigh horse an-- with a sleigh and dragged them up to wherever people's ice houses were.
A building, often partly or wholly underground, in which ice (esp. ice collected in winter) is stored for use throughout the year (now chiefly hist.); (also) the type of a frigid place.

Isn't that a corker

Parf of speech: Expression, OED Year: 1877, OED Evaluation: Colloquial and dialectal

A person or thing of surpassing size or excellence; a stunner; also used ironically

ExampleMeaning
Speaker 1: And I'm just trying to think of other things that people say. Interview: Yeah, if you could think- Speaker 1: What- what's someone like, "Isn't that a corker?" Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Speaker 1: If- if you're surprised about something. Interviewer: Corker? Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker 1: Corker.
An astonishing person or thing

Jive

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1943, OED Evaluation: Slang. Originally U.S.

To make sense; to fit in.

ExampleMeaning
No, I never did no- 'cause I- like I- I- again I would be in the site office, and, um- the only time I really got out on the site was if- if something didn't jive- if somebody was ordering parts and- you-know- parts that were (inc), or- you-know, or- or ah- I'd want to know why- why you-know drill bit's not lasting as long, so I 'd go and watch them
To make sense

Kitty-corner

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1838, OED Evaluation: U.S. dial.

None, but probably related to cater-corner. Diagonally; diagonal. So cater-cornering adj. and n., catty-cornering adj. and n.

ExampleMeaning
Well, there was seven in our house, kitty-corner was the Myers, they were about six, and across the road was the Watsons, there was one boy there. But w-- we- we had a group of people there on that corner and we played all kinds of games.
Diagonal

Lad

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1440, OED Evaluation: N/A

A boy, youth; a young man, young fellow. Also, in the diction of pastoral poetry, used to denote ‘a young shepherd’. In wider sense applied familiarly or endearingly (sometimes ironically) to a male person of any age, esp. in the form of address my lad

ExampleMeaning
little more um- this is a lot of stuff here. This is a lot of- of band stuff I got there. There's three young lads that learned to play it here.
Boy
Yeah yeah, very interesting. (inc) three other Canadian lads there with me there. Down there- there- I went...
Boy
Yeah. Well, yeah this, some of these things. There's some locals that got in there to start. I got one killed, I think it was this lad got killed. All I know, Hilton-Alaroy there, he got killed out of the Hong-Kong.
Boy
A little more um- this is a lot of stuff here. This is a lot of- of band stuff I got there. There's three young lads that learned to play it here.
Boy
ExampleMeaning
And so the- there was the two young lads and- and they had no children, they had no children for thirteen years. And then the first child was born dead so I guess they were happy to see me
Boy
ExampleMeaning
And sometimes ah, people will call other people of the same age, be it young or old ah a lad. And they don't mean anything other than it's a- a person, the son of a family. "He's a nice lad." And he could be-
Boy
And sometimes ah, people will call other people of the same age, be it young or old ah a lad. And they don't mean anything other than it's a- a person, the son of a family. "He's a nice lad." And he could be...
Boy
ExampleMeaning
He seen it happen. He come around the corner, he seen- he see the deer topple over, he seen the young lads ahead of him. Young lads stop, deer's just keeled over dead, arrow sticking out of it.
Boy
Oh yes. So she nails a deer with her car and you-know Dariah, not much bigger than you, height wise and reasonable good-looking girl and-everything. Couple of young lads come along behind her. S-- you-know they- I–don't-know, I-think it was dead.
Boy
This is Haliburton county. The lads- young and this is Lue, the guy I work for...
Boy
Young lads look at the deer, chuck in the back of the truck...
Boy
ExampleMeaning
Dad had the car and he'd drive that old vet all over. Here to Minden, Wilberforce, wherever eh? Then he- old lad got killed then dad did it all. I've been with him thousands of barns around here when I was a kid.
Boy
He was so excited over that, he went and bought the twenty-sixer for the young lad for everybody to have a drink that night. Nobody got drunk, just a drink. Word was, you got drunk, you didn't go.
Boy
I got an incubator, I've had that for twenty years I-guess. I brought them up here and the old lad, he put them in the incubator. Of course the granddaughter was here, she looked after all these eggs eh? And she hatched three turkeys.
Boy