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Packsack

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1851, OED Evaluation: North American

A bag or other container used to transport a bundle of goods; a rucksack.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: So just as a common example what would you call that object right there? Speaker: The bag, packsack, bag ah. Interviewer: Do you think someone in Toronto might call it something different? Speaker: My carry-on. Interviewer: Like, definitely, there's a difference between packsack and back-pack between Northern-Ontario and Southern-Ontario. Speaker: Oh! I forgot about back-pack! That's what that's called, eh? That's right. Yeah yeah, maybe that's it or. Yeah, I called it packsack just now eh? Or a bag. Yeah, "Grab your bag, kids. Kids, grab your bag. Pa-- unpack your bags, kids." Yeah gr-- ah oh, we- and you know what? The kids need a new packsack. Back-sack- back-pack. Back-pack might be the back country you-know in the- back-pack, that's you-know when you do hiking in it. Yeah that's a- that's a word.
Knapsack
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Interviewer: So like what would- what would you call that object over there? Speaker: That? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Oh a packsack, or a back-pack, or you-know. Iinterviewer: Would you not say that people in Southern-Ontario would never call it a packsack. That's a Northern-Ontario thing? Speaker: Ah I-don't-know, could be the way that- 'cause like different companies call them different things too. Like (inc), I think they call them packsacks, don't they?
Knapsack
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Interviewer: When I was down south, the big one for us was packsack. We'd say- Speaker: Packsack.
Knapsack
Interviewer: …we say packsack people will look at us like, "What the hell is a packsack?!" Speaker: What's a packsack, yeah.
Knapsack
Speaker: ...little expressions that they had never heard of you-know like, May Run was roots? Interviewer: No. Speaker: No? Oh back-pack? Interviewer: No. Speaker: No? What? Interviewer: Packsack. Speaker: Oh packsack, yeah. There you go, okay. Ah that they- they- they don't use in Toronto
Knapsack
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Interviewer: Timmins, like can you think of a w-- another word that someone that northern Ontario might call a bag or a school bag? Speaker: Ah I-don't-know packsack maybe?
Knapsack
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Well, we got a course our own different languages we- you know, we t-— we say- apparently we say knap-sack, they say packsack, type of thing I-don't-know. I've heard that before.
Knapsack
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Interviewer: You don't call it a packsack? Speaker: No. Packs- well, yeah. But I don't- I-don't-know I don't- packsack bag. Back-pack. Interviewer: Do you think- do you think that's a Northern-Ontario thing or Timmins thing packsack. A lot of people calling bags packsack. You go out to Toronto you say packsack people will look at you and they go, "What the hell is a packsack?"
Knapsack
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Interviewer: What about that object over there. What would you call that object? Speaker: A packsack? Interviewer: Yeah? What do you think someone from Southern-Ontario would call that?
Knapsack
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Interviewer: Let me start you off with a example here ah- what would you call this? Speaker: Packsack. Interviewer: That's right! Speaker: They don't have packsack down south. Interviewer: What is that? Speaker: You say packsack and everybody looks at you weird. Interviewer: It's- they call it a backpack.
Knapsack
Interviewer: Let me start you off with a example here ah- what would you call this? Speaker: Packsack. Interviewer: That's right! Speaker: They don't have packsack down south.
Knapsack
Interviewer: Let me start you off with a example here ah- what would you call this? Speaker: Packsack. Speaker: That's right! Speaker: They don't have packsack down south.
Knapsack
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Yeah, dogging, yeah. You know that. And ah, I got bored and I had a whole bunch of nails with me in my packsack, six inch spikes and a little hammer.
Knapsack
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Speaker: Ah no, see, okay, no, I- I still remember schoolbag being said. Packsack however when you take it out on adventure. Interviewer: Oh really? Okay. Speaker: Yes. Interviewer: 'Cause we- Speaker: Like going camping or something like that.
Knapsack
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Interviewer: Really? Okay. Um- Speaker: What d-- what do you call it? Interviewer: Packsack. Speaker: Oh, I see. Yeah, packsack. Interviewer: Right. Did your generation call it a packsack at all, or- ? Speaker: Somethings we call it packsacks, eh? L-- lot of time we use the word duffle-bag. Packsack is it- ah like a packsack for hunting you-know like- Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Yeah. We use that for ah that terminology.
Knapsack
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Interviewer: I think younger generations and- and- and s-- ah, I think i-- I think even some older generations still called it this, I grew up calling it a packsack. I- and to this day I still call it a packsack. Speaker: A packsack yeah. Yeah. Interviewer: Right, um- Speaker: School bag, that's what we call it. Interviewer: So, did you hear packsack thrown around when you were- when you were younger or with your kids or- Speaker: Not with school bags but packsack was a common word with other things you-know, like if you were carrying- you were carrying something, say on your shoulders, it would be a packsack. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Or if you went out in the ah bush for something, it was a packsack.
Knapsack
Interviewer: I think younger generations and- and- and s-- ah, I think i-- I think even some older generations still called it this, I grew up calling it a packsack. I- and to this day I still call it a packsack. Speaker: A packsack yeah. Yeah. Interviewer: Right, um- Speaker: School bag, that's what we call it. Interviewer: So, did you hear packsack thrown around when you were- when you were younger or with your kids or- Speaker: Not with school bags but packsack was a common word with other things you-know, like if you were carrying- you were carrying something, say on your shoulders, it would be a packsack. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Or if you went out in the ah bush for something, it was a packsack.
Knapsack
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So yeah, I notice some- either they say different words like- like I used the example today about "packsack", she uses "kitbag", um, so either they say different words or their pronunciation's a little different than ours. Y-- yeah, that's pretty much what it is.
Knapsack
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Speaker: But, ah ah, backpack is what- the only thing I, ah- I've ever heard. Interviewer: Well, your- your children being the age they are now, have you ever heard your children refer, ah- 'cause I know their generation definitely would have had it- have you ever heard them refer to it as a packsack? Speaker: Ah, I've heard the word "packsack", we've always had that word here. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Okay, ah- Interviewer: 'Cause, I grew up talking- calling it that way and even to this day I still call it a packsack, so. Speaker: Yeah. Ah, packsack comes from ah, back in- in the days when ah, before the railway came in.
Knapsack
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I-don't-know. I think it's just the use of certain words like Juliet was saying before she left that people just add in "there" or you-know that some people call a backpack, you-know, a packsack.
Knapsack