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Monger

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

a person engaged in a petty or disreputable trade or traffic.

ExampleMeaning
We're trying to- we're trying to get a r-- away from racism. We're trying to get away from hate and fear monger- Like hate and fear mongering, I guess. What's hate mongering?
a person who promotes a specified activity, situation, or feeling, esp. one that is undesirable or discreditable

Moonshine

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1782, OED Evaluation: Colloquial

Smuggled or illicitly distilled alcoholic liquor.

ExampleMeaning
His thing was- he always tells me about this time in university he wou-- was taking chemistry and it was his last year or-something and he was in charge of his own lab and he had his own like, everything- all the equipment that he wanted and so he decided to make moonshine and so he made it and brought it home for like him and his brothers and-everyone to drink and my mom came over and she poured herself a big glass
illegally produced alcohol

Muck around

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1935, OED Evaluation: Colloquial

To behave in an aimless or desultory way (with); to act with no definite purpose or result; to act frivolously or teasingly.

ExampleMeaning
No, that's true, yeah that's true. But I can't see myself mucking around the plumbing department, but anyway um she's ah she's ah well actually the situation right now.
To behave in an aimless or desultory way (with); to act with no definite purpose or result; to act frivolously or teasingly.

never had no

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Parents never had no worries about us. Only had one cousin get lost once. They found him the next day though. Yeah. 'Cause (laughs) in the village there was fifteen homes. Seven of them were related. All uncles and aunts.
"never had any"

OAC

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: I graduated a year after I was supposed to, I stayed back to take some different courses because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. Interviewer: Oh at ah Chippewa? Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah yeah. Speaker: Yeah I stayed longer than I needed to but. Interviewer: Um y-- you didn't have O-A-C right? Speaker: No. Interviewer: Y-- y-- you. Speaker: No.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
Speaker: Yeah so I- yeah my grade was like the first one to h-- to not have U-A- O-A- O-A-C. but I wasn't sure what I wanted to do so I stayed and took co-op and stuff like that to see- and fun courses that I wasn't able to take before because my schedule was too full.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: I-mean I think that's why for us our- that at our school there was such a focus on independent study, you-know "Come up with some interpretation on your own. You tell me what you think. You- I- I miss the ah O-A-C course. Were you new curriculum or old? Did you do O-A-C? Interviewer: I was- I was the first new. Speaker: Euh. Interviewer: But I wound up just doing two grade-twelves. Um. Speaker: But the old but you missed the course.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
The old O-A-C course had a- a- a really neat independent study where the kids had to pick three works and so they moved away from you-know the compare contrast and they moved into looking at themes and motifs and I-don't-know somebody like you would have been very good at it I can remember some just marvellous O-A-C independent studies, pieces that was quite literally a privilege to be able to read, you-know kids ah pulling together ah you-know a classic novel and a Pink-Floyd album and something else and you-know making it into an independent study. Just tremendous stuff.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
Speaker: Well you might have if you were the first year because people were still trying to just you-know people were still trying to use some of those old O-A-C components in the grade-twelve university level course. Interviewer: Yeah, we had ah (inc) Titus-Andronicus and About-Schmidt. Speaker: Oh yes. Interviewer: (inc) Speaker: I- My oldest daughter, um her grade-thirteen er O-A-C independent study was on the character of Merlin, and she read oh more than three, I think f-- maybe half a dozen pieces from various King-Arthur legends ah and examined the character of Merlin, you-know things like that, that- that are just so very different and that ...
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: So Saint-Alexander from one to, like, one to six? Speaker: Kindergarten to six, yeah. Saint-Bride's was seven to eight. And then nine to O-A-C was Saint-Joseph's Scollard-Hall.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
Speaker: I never had him for math. He had my oldest brother Jim and apparently they had like a good- like, he really liked Jim. Judy, my best-friend, had this huge crush on Mister-Keele and then in O-A-C we had him. Judy and I both had him for home-room teacher and he hated me.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
Speaker: ... it was like "Please stop or else I'll send you to the office". Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: "Okay, go to the office". Speaker: Yeah. I think he'd- I think it was like the only one time he did it was the first day and the home-rooms had been changed 'cause we're O-A-C so ah a couple home-rooms had merged and, like, the teachers had changed so, like, I think he was picking someone to make and example. I think maybe 'cause he knew I was a Mclean. He did comment once on my hair.
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: We barely talked throughout high-school, like our last couple- until O-A-C of high-school and then- when she was gone out of high-school it was a lot easier. Interviewer: Do you think the problem was that you were too cool?
Ontario Academic Credit, formerly known as Grade thirteen; a fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for post-secondary programs (as opposed to students in the vocational stream, who graduated after Grade 12); phased out in 2003.

Oodles

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1867, OED Evaluation: Colloquial. Originally U.S.

Large or unlimited quantities; a very great number or amount of something

ExampleMeaning
Yeah it was in the last three years that somebody- nobody applied for it. Yeah. Now this year they said they had oodles. Yeah.
Lots

out West

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1834, OED Evaluation: N/A

Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.

ExampleMeaning
My grandma, my mom's mom ah is from out West. Ah she was- she grew up in an orphanage out there and she's- I ah- Native, Native. And he was Dutch so interesting mix (laughs).
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
ExampleMeaning
No, stuck around here most of my life. Pretty well all my life. That was the only time, you-know. Like I been out- I been in the States like Pennsylvania and different places. Ah I've gone out west several times. Went out to Fort-McMurray three different times, not working but visiting. So, the only place I haven't been is east-coast. That's one of my next trips one time. Go see the east-coast.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
ExampleMeaning
... I wanna do marine mammal rehabilitation and rescue so- that's what I wanted my degree for, so I gotta move out west (laughs).
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
They're building a new one, I-guess out in Calgary or-something now, so- but yeah, Guelph and one out west is like the only schools in Canada that you can go to vet-school for. But yeah, it's very competitive.
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
Interviewer: Are you looking for jobs here? Speaker: Mm-hm, anywhere in Canada. Um, not- not- not s-- really in Ontario, not really looking anywhere in Ontario. I'm looking mainly in um, British-Columbia, out we-- ah, out west mo-- mainly just British-Columbia though. And then out east and then Northern Canada, like Northern Manitoba or-
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.
But, in Canada, for me staying in Canada, jobs and where I'd want to live would be British-Columbia. Jobs- a lot more jobs are out east than out west but, I would rather live out west, I've never been, so I wanna go. Mm-hm. mfeletti
Originally: in or to the territory to the west of the early American settlements; (in later use) in or to the distant West of the United States. Also in extended use: in or to the western parts of Canada or Australia.