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Pretty near

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

NA

ExampleMeaning
Lots of times yeah. But in the real tough- walked pretty near all the time.
Almost

pretty well

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

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

ExampleMeaning
So that's about- about's where we live and ah actually we've- I've lived around here all my life pretty well, but I never knew Roy really until I was in high-school and ah we lived ah down um you-know where the (inc) church is really, down the highway?
pretty much
Interviewer: ... was it forest or? Speaker: All forest pretty well.
pretty much
ExampleMeaning
My aunt Beverly of Treleven from Toronto she was very active in the Presbyterian church, and she pretty well ran ah Quinmilak, the- the camp, and ah so I would always go to camp with her and it was C-G-I-T. Mm-hm. Canadian-Girls-In-Training.
pretty much
Ah no they- ah they've always been really open with us which is great. They tell us pretty well everything that's going on, especially Karen's, the other two we don't ah I think that comes from a broken home too.
pretty much
ExampleMeaning
... ah every farmer was into a mixed farming operation pretty well, with a few cattle and pigs and-so-on and-whatnot so they had to have a place in the summer to dispose of their surplus milk.
pretty much
They had The-National-Post, The-Globe-And-Mail, and The-Toronto-Star and quite often The-Toronto-Sun. So I'd go and read the news in one or two and the editorials in the rest of them and you pretty well get the pulse of what seems to be bothering the people that can write anyway if you read the ah- ah letters to the editor in the editorial. But there's an awful lot of people that can't or won't write ...
pretty much
... filled and staffed by people who came from larger centres and came down here sole for ah their real-estate for big dollars and had reasonably good pensions and come down here to ah- ah at a lower cost of housing and living and so on and ah- ah they have pretty well taken over the operation of- of many many things in the town where I ah- ah their typical approach is, "oh I just love Lakefield, is it ever nice. It's such a relief to get out of Toronto or Oshawa or Scarborough or Hamilton. Oh it's just wonderful ...
pretty much
We- ah the identity and the need for the local involvement ah isn't there and we're ah, we're too close to- to Peterborough and we're just really a- a suburb of Peterborough with ah ah ah- and that, I'm- I'm pretty well feed- I played in an awful lot of athletics in Peterborough and in hockey and ball and was quite renowned in that. So I know all kinds.
pretty much
ExampleMeaning
It was three owners in that, and he- her husband was one. And they lived right in that little white house before you come to the church. On the right-hand side there, white. Where the little kind-of a restaurant or-something or was it beside there. So that pretty well takes care of them.
pretty much
... she worked in the office. And of-course he- he bats it for a while on the farm when he first moved there and that's where he met her when be in getting feed you-see? So they were great surprise that she would marry a farmer. So that pretty well takes care of that I think. That part of it.
pretty much
... and then he's going to summer school, just to get tuned up a little bit. And that pretty much takes care of them for the moment. So they get done school, they'll be going to college naturally and- and ah that pretty well takes care of them.
pretty much
Yeah he's got a great head of hair. Yeah, yeah. So that pretty well- let me see- I can't think too much more of what ah what they done you-know.
pretty much
Interviewer: Would you take a deer pretty much every time too? Speaker: Pretty well yeah.
pretty much
Interviewer: So ah what's the range on the shot-gun? Speaker: Shotgun? Oh I'd say from here 'cross the highway. Pretty well you might be lucky depends what you're using, if you use slugs then that's ah um a slug is a round ball about that big ...
pretty much
Interviewer: ... it seems like you have to do ah yard work all the time. Speaker: Oh yard-work and maintenance you-know things that you don't have to do, but oh you've got to keep the place looking good. Yup. Interviewer: And do you have any other hobbies ah that you- Speaker: That pretty well takes care of it.
pretty much
Interviewer: ... we're pretty much good for time, unless there's anything else you'd like to add or- or ah- Speaker: Oh i think that ah pretty well does it ah Jonathan. ... No I think that pretty well covers it and we're ah we keep in pretty good health ...
pretty much

Redd-up

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1880, OED Evaluation: Chiefly Scottish, Irish English (north.), and English regional (north.).

An act of clearing away or tidying up. Also (occas.): disorder that needs to be tidied up, a mess.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Or redd-up. Interviewer: Sorry what's that mean? Speaker: Redd-up is like after we eat dinner she say- she'll say, "Oh I'm just gonna redd-up and then we can do that. "Interviewer: What does it mean? Speaker: Means like clean up the table and the dishes. Redd-up.
Clean or tidy up.

someplace

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1880, OED Evaluation: dial. and U.S.

Somewhere; (at, in, to, etc.) a particular or unspecified place.

ExampleMeaning
And with my grandkids I taught them all to play euchre too. Brett and Lance and the whole works because I said, "You can always play euchre someplace. Everybody plays cards pretty well."
somewhere
... she visited me. It was really nice. And she w-- I don't know where she was from, she did say and I- seems to me it was over near Bridgenorth or someplace or around, and ah she do-- she just does this for the Presbyterian-Church. And she had a prayer and I thought it was really nice of her.
somewhere