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Example | Meaning |
Interviewer 1: Were you born ah- where- Speaker: In- Interviewer 1: Were you born? Speaker: In Harris-Township. Interviewer 1: Really? Speaker: You know the farm where the l-- quiltbarn is? Interviewer 1: Yeah. Speaker: That was my dad's farm. Interviewer 2: Aw. Speaker: And that's where whole twelve of us kids are born out there. Interviewer 1: You were born on the farm. Speaker: Yeah, you so- Interviewer 1: You (inc)- Speaker: I learned how to (inc) they didn't go to the hospital. |
"was/were born" |
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away.
Example | Meaning |
Interviewer: Were you born in New-Liskeard? Speaker: I was born in Cane-Township down here. Just- Interviewer: Cane-Township. Speaker: Yeah, just a little ways from here. ... 'Bout four-miles- three or four-miles from here. |
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away. |
Example | Meaning |
I can remember um- and there was always diapers right? 'Cause there was always a baby so some days she would have to finish drying them in the- in the kitchen dining room area so that she would have lines running across the top of the- of the room. A little ways down from the ceiling and have several dozen diapers hanging all over the place ... |
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away. |
Example | Meaning |
But they had great meals wherever you went. And French-fried-potatoes and- ... Right across the street in the motel in Acapulco, you'd walk across the street a little ways and- and you're right at home there. Just like you're eating at home. A very relaxed atmosphere. And the prices were very reasonable. |
A good (great, little, etc.) distance. Frequently followed by an adverb, esp. off, away. |
A track prepared or available for travelling along; a road, street, lane, or path. Now esp. in phrases like beside, over, across the way, the other side (of) the way, to cross the way, etc.
Example | Meaning |
So it's kind-of- I got to be really close friends with him and then also there's another little girl who lived ah not exactly across but across the way and ah apparently when we first met each other, she was totally French, totally totally French, and I was completely English and so when we ended up um meeting up with each other, she was speaking French to me and I was speaking English to her, and we understood each other. |
Something that is nearby but a small walk; a place on the other side of a street |
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Example | Meaning |
Yeah, and you didn't- and mum didn't have to worry about those- the Aladdin lamps gave you a lot of light but they had those mantles kind-of... |
Type of old lamp |
A toy marble (marble n. 11a), orig. one of high quality made from marble or alabaster, later also one made from glass or other material. Also (occas.) attrib. in alley taw
Example | Meaning |
Speaker: Marbles! We played marbles a lot. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: Yeah, you'd be gangs of people around the school at recess, hitting the marble on the wall or standing back to see who get the marble or there were alleys, really, who could get the one closest to the wall, that was something else we did. |
Marbles |
The fundament, buttocks, posteriors, or rump of an animal.
Example | Meaning |
And h-- how he became crippled- father got mad at him one day and hit him a- went to hit him a kick in the arse when he was going part-way down the stairs. And he caught him too high. And he got him just on the bottom vertebrae and he broke his back. |
Ass |
Example | Meaning |
Speaker: I know that I got to be home at five-o'clock for supper, or else, you-know I'll get a kick in the arse. And ah that's it. That's the way it goes. |
Ass |
A carpenter's tool for boring holes in wood, etc., having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point, and a handle fixed at right angles to the top of the shank, by means of which the tool is worked round with both hands.
Example | Meaning |
Speaker: Yeah you see, especially with ambulance, you see some- some injuries of what other people are doing and that makes you think twice about some of the things you do. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Auger- Auger injuries are pretty- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Pretty darn good- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Degloving where it rips the skin right off and it wraps around an auger. That's-- Interviewer: A what? Speaker: Pretty much enough to keep you sober to not do something stupid- Interviewer: What's an auger? Interviewer: It's where they use like (inc) from the- the (inc). Interviewer: Oh no- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: And it like spins and- Speaker: So it wraps around there. |
A carpenter's tool for boring holes in wood, etc., having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point, and a handle fixed at right angles to the top of the shank, by means of which the tool is worked round with both hands. |
So usually it's easy at the time because you adrelenine is rushing and you're there helping the person, but it really sets in afterwards, like "Wow, geez, I- you know, I use an auger like that everyday on the farm. Geez, that could have been me." Or I think about times where "Oh geez, I've went underneath a ladder like that" or driven that stretch of highway or mooses jumped out on me before. |
A carpenter's tool for boring holes in wood, etc., having a long pointed shank with a cutting edge and a screw point, and a handle fixed at right angles to the top of the shank, by means of which the tool is worked round with both hands. |
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely; (also) very badly.
Example | Meaning |
But anyways, I was in the living room and he had walked in- he was only there maybe a minute. And I thought, "Geez, he's awfully quiet," and I got up, but when I gotten up, it was too late. He had already grabbed the bucket and it went all over him. So ah, I- it's not funny but it is. |
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely. |
Example | Meaning |
So I worked for Mister-Hill and he was ah- an awfully nice man and as far as I was concerned and he- he didn't like office work and he'd just say, "You just do- answer this however you like and say- say whatever you think I should say." |
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely. |
Speaker: I thought she was coming yesterday (laughs). Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: Usually she does come Wednesday morning. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: But she's awfully nice. Interviewer: Mm-hm- |
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely. |
Speaker: But it was a lovely wedding. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: And ah- and it made out fine and I thought I'd get awfully tired and Jessica said, "Now look it, when you want to go home, I'll take you home. Don't worry about it. |
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely. |
Example | Meaning |
Speaker: ... I realized that that aunt of mine who came on the Meteor in nineteen-one, they came May, she had a baby the end of June. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: In nineteen-oh-one, she's either awfully brave or awfully stupid (laughs). Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: To come to a place with no doctors and. Interviewer: (inc). Speaker: And to be pregnant. |
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely. |
Example | Meaning |
So they pulled up to the- they pulled up to the house and the lady was out on the veranda and said, "Lady we're awfully sorry, we ran over your cockerel. We'd like to replace it." She says, "Please yourself, the hen's around the back." |
As simple intensive: very, exceedingly, extremely. |
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.
Example | Meaning |
They- they- they had a policeman that ah boarded with him before and he had a- the little back kitchen I-guess that we'd call it. |
A second kitchen generally used in the summer. |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc.
Example | Meaning |
Interviewer: Now, would that all would be loose, right? Speaker: All loose yeah. Interviewer: Yeah, so it wasn't bales at that point. Speaker: Oh no, no such thing as balers in those earlier days, and so that went on for quite a few years um, by that time, I was getting away from the farm because I was um in high-school and ah. |
A machine or apparatus for baling hay, straw, metal, etc. |
An ox; any animal of the ox kind; esp. a fattened beast, or its carcase
Example | Meaning |
Speaker: It's a- it's group of young people that lived in the country and farm and we ah, we used to get to together for meetings and to learn different things about gardening and animals. We showed a beef at the fair and- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Some people raised pigs and all different- we had a lot of um- we used to hold dances and things for fundraisers... |
A cow |