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Bugger

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1936, OED Evaluation: Course slang

Something unpleasant or undesirable; a great nuisance

ExampleMeaning
nd I thought "You bugger." So I tried to get up and I called up to him and I told him "You're making it worse. Just come back down." And ah he said ah something about um, he wanted- I can't remember what he was asking for.
A bother/pain

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
Speaker: Horse and buggy I guess in October we came up. Yeah, that's how- that- that was the transportation.
Carriage
Speaker: Oh course, of course. But it was horse and buggy.
Carriage
ExampleMeaning
The- that type of car, but ah basically most of the freight- that's the mining company- and the farms, of course it's all horse and buggy. But I never rode in a buggy in my life. But the freight was by ah horses eh? And if you were going a distance a car, but most of it by train ah now there- there- no, you couldn't put a horse on a road you- you-know it be a hazard and-the-rest-the-stuff.
Carriage

bull cook

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And what they call a bull cook. Interviewer: Oh what's- what's that? Speaker: A bull cook is ah like your several cabins where the men stayed in. Like sleep cabins. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Then there was the cookery where everybody ate. Well the bull cook had to keep the- the places um clean. And keep wood- wood in there, water in there. There was no running water. It was all done by- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Bring it in by pail eh? Interviewer: Mm-hm, mm-hm. Speaker: Chop the wood and keep the fires going and make sure there's enough wood in there for the night. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Then you'd go and help the cook because you'd clean up in there too and ah you got to involve them with ah ah washing and trying to h-- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: That's a bull cook.
A handyman in a camp (as of loggers); especially : one who does caretaking chores and acts as cook's helper

Bullion

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1451, OED Evaluation: N/A

Gold or silver in the lump, as distinguished from coin or manufactured articles; also applied to coined or manufactured gold or silver when considered simply with reference to its value as raw material.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Ah, the gold. Interviewer: Gold. Speaker: The gold bullion to the ah, train station with him.
Gold or silver in bulk before coining
And ah- so then I went to see the super. And ah he was very good. He even had me bringing the bullion to the train station with him.
Gold or silver in bulk before coining

Bum

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1863, OED Evaluation: N/A

trans. To beg; to obtain by begging; to cadge.

ExampleMeaning
Not- not in school anymore, no job, you-know their parents, no job, they stay with them and they're basically all doing the same thing, bumming smokes from each other and whatever else- you-know it's just-
To borrow or get stuff for free from someone
ExampleMeaning
Like we never bugged our parents for rides 'cause you could always bum a ride with somebody.
To borrow or get stuff for free from someone
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Anyways it finally- it finally got settled out and it went on the market and then it sold before I even had a chance to bid on it. Interviewer: Aw that's a shame. Speaker: Yeah I was bumming.
To borrow or get stuff for free from someone

Bum-hill or Bum-fuck

Parf of speech: Expression, OED Year: 1859, OED Evaluation: N/A

Of poor, wretched, or miserable quality; spec. bum steer, false or poor information or advice.

ExampleMeaning
Yeah I hang out- well he lives out in Adobe. So that's like the middle of bum-hill- bum-fuck no where so-
A very rural area.

Bunged up

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
But he did this- with the idea of hanging on there. So he would be break lose and then hit the floor eh? Of the cage. And apparently he got his knees all bunged up from the- the wall up when he hit the floor. He was crippled for a while.
Injured

bunk-house

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

A house where workmen, etc., are lodged.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: ... but there the place where there's garbage (inc), the guys are sleeping in that with ah- with ah you-know old mattress to try to get there long enough that they can get- get on at the mine eh? 'Cause you get on there, you're fairly good pay and bunk-house to stay in and the rest of it was- it was good. Interviewer: So you worked, you said you worked in the assay office? Speaker: Yeah in- in for the winter time yeah. But ah we were lucky because in ah- soon as the war started, all the men disappeared.
A house where workmen, etc., are lodged.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Now is this an original pond or was it man-made? Speaker: Yeah, no it- it used to be- over here where all those buildings is what used to be what we called Green-Grass. They um- there was a bunker- where this building is being built. It was the Lakeshore bunk-houses where the superintendents and the foremens and all that lived in there. And then in between there and over here it was- it was a soccer field and a ball field and we call it- and this is where we played as kids and-that, eh?
A house where workmen, etc., are lodged.

Bunkhouse

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1878, OED Evaluation: N/A

A house where workmen are lodged

ExampleMeaning
Say if you- if you think about it today, um, but- say if a guy got mumps, or something that was contagious, in a mining camp, what were you going to do with them? You-know, you had to keep them away from- you couldn't leave them in a say, ah, a bunkhouse where there's the men who worked a-- in the mine and-stuff, eh? So they had what they called a quarantine house.
A building providing basic sleeping accomodations for workers
ExampleMeaning
Well there used to- Lakeshore used to have ah- they used to call it bu-- a bunkhouse. It was a great big long, long building. And ah, they had ah, like rooms and small apartments and-things. And ah, so a lot of them would stay there. But then that closed down.
A building providing basic sleeping accomodations for workers
ExampleMeaning
Whatever. Towards- between (inc) and Timmins they were out that way and ah they were putting in ah the mine's putting in basically (inc) like the trailers for bunkhouses sort-of-thing. So, there's going to be other accommodation in there. They're going to be the cleaning-staff and the kitchen-staff.
A building providing basic sleeping accomodations for workers

Bush party

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Yeah, they'll find anywhere to party. (inc) in the summer just go- anywhere around. They'll go anywhere. In the bush, they'll go to lakes. Have bush parties everywhere.
An outdoor party, in the woods or other wildish area
ExampleMeaning
Ah. The last bush party I went to was with Robert, it was when we'd just started dating. We uh- he had this four-runner who was an old truck, yellow, bright like this- and it was ah it had the big stereo system, the base, everything.
An outdoor party, in the woods or other wildish area
Straight up and we're- ended up chasing us. We ran in the bush for about half an hour to stay away from them. It was crazy. That's fun about the bush though, the bush parties were the best here.
An outdoor party, in the woods or other wildish area