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baked

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1978, OED Evaluation: N. Amer.

Intoxicated by a drug, typically marijuana.

ExampleMeaning
... come back like maybe for lunch I take like an hour lunch. So I go back to the shed where I hang out- oh, my laptop. Get everything ready, I just roll a little joint and I go out and back- have a little- smoke that. And then- and I'm baked, watch a movie and- ... Get paid for it (laughs). Well no like I- not like I'm sitting on my ass all day. I am doing shit but I take- I take breaks.
Intoxicated by a drug, typically marijuana.
...- I was hanging out with some people that time and ah again, narcotics were involved in the situation but ah we're all hanging out and ah w-- ah 'cause Innis was with us and he was like out of his mind baked. And he was like- just we're all just chilling and-all-that-stuff. And like Matt was like- one of my friends Matt was like laughing and laughing and he's like "He's lol-ing, he's lol-ing!"
Intoxicated by a drug, typically marijuana.

Belly up

Parf of speech: Expression, OED Year: 1886, OED Evaluation: Originally U.S.

to fail, become defunct, or give in; to die; to become bankrupt.

ExampleMeaning
I- no I- I- my first job was with ah- with this company called Ha-- Bill-Hall, Hall-Electric. Electro-company. I worked with them 'til he ah- 'til he went belly up (laughs) just about.
To go bankrupt

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
Speaker: Stupid shit like that. And he pretty much just, like, opened up to us, like, big-time. Like, he really opened up to us (laughs).
Very much - intensifier
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Um I know that- well, probably hearing from here- I don't- I- like I say things ah like we have sayings like, "big-time" and like (laughs) different words that we use, but I-don't-know, it all depends on- I think it's what you do in life.
Intensifier

Bobsleigh

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1839, OED Evaluation: Originally U.S.

A sled or sleigh, made of two short sleds or sleighs coupled together; used in drawing logs from the forest to a river or public road, and for various other purposes.

ExampleMeaning
Like they used to be function at ah, in Porcupine that bobsleighing. They used to have picnics there, family picnics.
A sled or sleigh, made of two short sleds or sleighs coupled together; used in drawing logs from the forest to a river or public road, and for various other purposes.

boughten

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

Form of bought, past participle of buy

ExampleMeaning
I actually had a family like I actually had someone who took care of me for once. My cousin came to visit us once and we had no food in our cupboards. And he got so mad at my mom and he bought us like a bunch of groceries. It's embarrassing to get m-- groceries boughten for you. I'm just going to (inc).
Form of bought, irregular past participle

bringing-up

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

The years in which a person had their childhood, their up-bringing

ExampleMeaning
But other than that, ah that gives you a run down ah of my schooling, my bringing up in Schumacher, my ah commitment to the community. I've been involved with so many things now it's unreal when you come down to it. I wrote a resume one time, I wrote it out and I couldn't believe it. I did all those things?
The years in which a person had their childhood, their up-bringing

Brook-trout

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1868, OED Evaluation: NA

Used as a name of various fish (chiefly Salmonidæ) resembling the trout in appearance or habits. Now local. With defining prefix, as the name of various species of the genus Salmo (or of the allied genus Salvelinus), and occasionally of other genera.

ExampleMeaning
So I- I liked fishing for- for trout and splake and speckerel and- and he started to get me into ah ah brook trout as well.
A type of trout

Brouhaha

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1890, OED Evaluation: N/A

A commotion, a to-do, a ‘sensation’; hubbub, uproar.

ExampleMeaning
I thi-- it's a good thing they have other offices or there's something else in there, because just for a library to function on its own, you-know, it's a- And then they made this brouhaha 'cause the police wanted a new police-station. Well, my gosh, the place they were in there was terrible!
Noisy reponse to something
I- I'm sure wha-- I'm sure when they had school dances, oh I'm sure there was drinking involved, and kids would sneak in stuff, you-know. But there was never any brouhaha about it if they did it. There was never any fights or tha-- not that we ever witnessed anyway.
Noisy reponse to something
So I gave them my name. Well, she said, "We have a D." "Oh," I said, "That's my husband. He passed away, like, thirteen years ago and I never changed it." And I guess that's where all the brouhaha came in. I don't know what they figured, so I said to the lady at the gas-company, "You mean I have to pay eighty-two dollars and-whatever to change an initial on a gas bill?"
Noisy reponse to something

buck

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1848, OED Evaluation: N/A

Of a horse: To leap vertically from the ground, drawing the feet together like a deer, and arching the back.

ExampleMeaning
... my grandmother got kicked by a cow once. ... Yeah she was ah she was working um with the cows and she was milking them and one of them started being stupid and ah (laughs) so she decided- well it sort of like- like I want to say bucking, but that's what horses do. Um just like kind of like getting pissed off and ah my grandmother just stabbed it 'cause it was like it was kicking her and stuff.
Of a horse: To leap vertically from the ground, drawing the feet together like a deer, and arching the back. (e.g., to force a rider off)

Buggy

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1773, OED Evaluation: N/A

A light one-horse (sometimes two-horse) vehicle, for one or two persons. Those in use in America have four wheels; those in England and India, two; in India there is a hood. (In recent use, esp. in U.S., India, and former British colonies.)

ExampleMeaning
All was all bush with just the main road." And she spent the first night ah, at this place. It was a close friend of his, who was in the taxi business. Horse and buggy in the summertime and sleighs in the wintertime.
Carriage
ExampleMeaning
They had flowers in there right down to the lake that was all and then the Hopper-Mine- the shaft. The shaft comes down and it works on a- on- on like a- like a buggy- a carriage. It's on a cable. So they- they- they lower you down on a cable instead of you hoist with the wheels on it- with the cage, you come down on a ramp.
Carriage

Buzz off

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1914, OED Evaluation: Slang

To go (quickly). to buzz off : to go off or away quickly.

ExampleMeaning
And mind, I kept telling him, "Stand up for yourself. Tell them to buzz off, leave you alone. You-know, like stand up for yourself in some way shape or form." "Yeah, but then he's going to beat me up even harder."
Leave

Call on

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1603, OED Evaluation: N/A

To invite to come on, allure, incite; fig. to encourage the growth of, bring on.

ExampleMeaning
And this girl she goes around calling on people, and the second some raises a fist, you got three guys right behind her, ready to defend her. Like what's the point of that. That's a cry to help to me. So one day she was actually calling on this one guy, and this guy ridiculously built for a- especially grades- grade eight- especially for someone who's like twelve years old- thirteen, fourteen I guess, I-don't-know. And she's calling him on and this is the f-- the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
To challenge to fight.

Came up a different line

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
I felt that he - he had the, uh, understanding and the formal education. Uh, he came up a different line than I came up.
followed a different path

catechism

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1518, OED Evaluation: N/A

An elementary treatise for instruction in the principles of the Christian religion, in the form of question and answer; such a book accepted and issued by a church as an authoritative exposition of its teaching, as the Longer Catechism and Shorter Catechism, of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, used by the Presbyterian churches, etc.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Right. Well, with the rise of academia, Christianity is done or atheism is coming. Speaker: Yeah, but- but then I think, you-know, all these things that we were taught basically almost brainwashed, you-know. You go to catechism and you're tol-- never explain anything. This is it, it's in your books, memorize it, okay, and th-- 'cause I had to go to catechism every Sunday th-- after church, after mass ah. Oh, I used to tell my mother I had a sore stomach. I just hated going to catechism but I had to go. And ah, you-know, to this day, I don't even remember anything we ever learned in catechism. Interviewer: (laughs).
Elementary instruction about the principles and beliefs of the Catholic Church.

Chap

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1716, OED Evaluation: Colloquial

‘Customer’, fellow, lad.

ExampleMeaning
My girlfriend and I were trying to hitch-hike home from Timmins and ah this car drove by and I said "Uh-oh, he'll be back." I recognized the chap. He ah- sure enough he rounded the block and Annie and I got in the back seat. And I said, "I'm going to marry that guy, the one who's sitting in front of me."
Man or boy