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A little ways

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1568, OED Evaluation: Colloq (chiefly N. Amer.)

A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.

ExampleMeaning
... I remember that area- that general area where we were behind M-C-T-V was exactly where my dad worked. But when I would meet him after work I'd meet him just a little ways up at the old- old train station at ah- back there, that was where the car- car-shop actually was.
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.

Ass over kettle

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: My mom says funny sayings. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: That would- yeah. Like "Ass over tea kettle." Or something old-person-ish.
Heads over heels

Back-kitchen

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1784, OED Evaluation: NA

Applied to a part of a house or building which lies behind, and is usually subsidiary to the front or main part bearing the name, as back-building, a building behind forming an appendage to a main building, back-chamber, back-court, back-drawing-room, back-garden (also transf. and fig.), back-kitchen, back-parlour, back porch, back shed, etc.

ExampleMeaning
I said "Somebody's going to get hurt." "Oh no, don't worry about it, they can do it." (laughs) Five minutes, not even five minutes, somebody comes running through the back kitchen to the- 'cause the kitchen lead to the back of the- back of the store where there was a door you could go to the ba-- parking-lot.
A second kitchen generally used in the summer.

Beef

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1320, OED Evaluation: N/A

An ox; any animal of the ox kind; esp. a fattened beast, or its carcase

ExampleMeaning
Definitely an inspired idea, I think my mom has the new edition of it. I- there are other books that I- like it's a good all-around reference. It's one of those things, like, if you don't know how to roast a chicken or do a turkey or roast a beef or you-know those-kinds-of-things, you will find the answer in the Joy-of-Cooking. Yeah.
A cow

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
You-know, a lot of changes that way. Like the saw-mill industry's hurting big-time. That's the main employers around here.
Very much - intensifier
Speaker: Someday. As far as I'm concerned, Sturgeon-Falls, as small as that town is, it's got more going on than North-Bay does. Interviewer: Oh really? Speaker: Oh yeah, oh yeah. big time. Oh yeah, big time.
Very much - intensifier
North-Bay to me, my- my own personal opinion, you got your rich and your low and your poor. You find that I-guess all over. Interviewer: Do you find that there's a big gap there? Speaker: Yup. Big time. Big time. Attitude goes along with it. You can tell the ones that think they're rich anyway. They walk around with their nose stuck up in the air.
Very much - intensifier
Speaker: Sturgeon-Falls is you-know- ah now the French here and the French in Montreal is big-time different.
Very - intensifier
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Well, I have changed that ah, quite a bit, 'cause I got knocked down a few times with the neighbours and-that and now I've been very cautious and I don't argue with nobody and I don't be tramped on, you-know-what-I-mean? Like, ah, used- I have been used big-time in my life.
Very much - intensifier
Nine years, I-guess it would've- I worked for them, mm-hm. Interviewer: So ah, diesel replaced the steam? Speaker: Oh yes. Oh, big time. In nineteen-sixty, yup.
Very much - intensifier
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Well they call it something else now, Bay-Rocks or something rocks the Bay, or whatever. Interviewer: Yeah yeah. Speaker: And the prices have gone up big time, like I-mean we used to buy wrist band for twenty bucks and that was it and now I-think they're eighty. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: But still we've had friends come up
A lot - intensifier
ExampleMeaning
It was a big boom in Ottawa, for ah, Internet sales and it was selling at high-speed that's when it first came out big-time for residentials and monthly payments between Bell and Rogers.
In a large way - intensifier

Bloodsucker

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1387, OED Evaluation: N/A

An animal that feeds on blood, as a leech or a biting fly.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Can you go swimming? Speaker: Oh no, too many ah, bloodsuckers.
A leech.

Boonies

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1954, OED Evaluation: North American slang. Originally U.S Military

The jungle; wild or rough country; (hence) a remote or unpopulated area

ExampleMeaning
Where if you grew up like kind-of in the boonies or in like, you-know, in the bush or one of those surrounding areas then you might have more of a rural way of talking.
Rural country or a jungle
Yeah in- in the minds of Canadians anyway. Because when we hear word- the words "north" we just always think of- it's like a negative word to Canadians, I-think, in a way because we think north equals cold and south equals warm. And we think north equals the boonies and south equals civilization you-know-what-I-mean? Like it's that whole idea.
Rural country or a jungle

Bugger

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

Something unpleasant or undesirable; a great nuisance

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Except for the one time she um drove really intoxicated. Speaker: Oh did she? Oh that little (inc)- Interviewer: (inc) After she got her G. Speaker: Oh that little bugger. Interviewer: What happened was she went to work in the morning and she was still drunk from the night before 'cause she drank so much and um they sent her home 'cause she was really drunk and she drove home.
A bother/pain

Bum

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

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

ExampleMeaning
Well right after high-school I kind-of bummed around to be honest, I kind-of just like didn't know what to do you-know with myself. Ah I wasn't really interested in going to u-- college ,university like it just wasn't something I wanted to do at that point.
To borrow or get stuff for free from someone
ExampleMeaning
I don't know any other word, so- alienated us, like we didn't want to even talk to her and sh-- all she did was hang out with him, like we never saw her for like two years, or-something, so. He was just an idiot too. He always like bummed mo-- money off of her and like, she spent so much money on him and- lost so much money on him and- they dated for a really long time.
To borrow or get stuff for free from someone

Bush party

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Yeah, I-think my sister- at the time it was the ski-hill, right? (clears throat) That was the big place for- for bush parties. You could- it was either at the ski-hill or at Blueberry-Hill which is over- over near Trout-Lake, but um, part of the reason I-think I didn't do that was 'cause often-times I'd end up running into my sister and that just was not welcome, so (laughs) when I was younger um, I-guess when I was in grade-nine, yeah, it just wasn't that- that wasn't going to happen.
An outdoor party, in the woods or other wildish area
ExampleMeaning
One time I got my ass tossed around but I was really drunk. But the guy went after me because I was drunk. I got me like really drunk (laughs) like bush party drunk.
An outdoor party, in the woods or other wildish area