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Example | Meaning |
And ah anyway I knew that he's not suppose to drop you, free-wheely, but he did, 'cause you go down faster. |
In manual transmission going without being in gear |
used as a coarse expletive.
Example | Meaning |
And it sucked and everything, but we drank there and got pissed or whatever. And then we were so fricking hun-- like, hungry, and we were like, "Do we wait to get foodtil we're done at Honest-Lawyer?"Cause it was early, it was only, like, eleven-thirty. |
used as a coarse expletive. |
Example | Meaning |
People can't say frigging "milk" properly. They say "melk". It's not fucking melk. It's milk. |
used as a coarse expletive. |
Meanwhile in English, when I'm learning stupid frigging words for wammy-vocab that I don't even need, I'm obviously not going to pick on thatcause it's stupid and nobody's going to use that. |
used as a coarse expletive. |
Example | Meaning |
So hey, I'll bring my little brother. And then he started going online playing frigging W-O-W or-whatever bullshit and (laughs) um- then he met this girl online and then he kind-of you-know pushed me away. |
used as a coarse expletive. |
And he's mad at me for shutting off his computer like it's a frigging game, you can turn it back on and keep playing. |
used as a coarse expletive. |
Yeah. Well it was- it was frigging- it was stupid. |
used as a coarse expletive. |
Example | Meaning |
I never hear anyone say it except for people at work because I say it. But (laughs) I don't- if I say that, frigging other cities they'd probably be like, "What the H-and-R-block?" Oh see like, that too! I always say, "What the H-and-R-Block"cause I don't say- like saying "What the hell,"cause that's like kind of like saying God's name in vain- |
used as a coarse expletive. |
As noun: Diversion, amusement, sport; also, boisterous jocularity or gaiety, drollery. Also, a source or cause of amusement or pleasure.
Example | Meaning |
Julie's friends can be funner than mine sometimes, so. |
Superlative/comparative form of fun. |
Example | Meaning |
Got- walk to- to and from school, which in winter wasn't the funnest, but we did it. |
Superlative/comparative form of fun. |
Example | Meaning |
It's the funnest place you can go to; I love it there. |
Superlative/comparative form of fun. |
Example | Meaning |
It was a lot funner that way |
Superlative/comparative form of fun. |
I'm trying to think. Little boys are always the funnest to baby-sit 'cause they're crazy. |
Superlative/comparative form of fun. |
Example | Meaning |
'Cause Dominos is the funnest game in the whole world. |
Superlative/comparative form of fun. |
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Example | Meaning |
Some of it used to make me so angry, like our laws and how they came about and- and how they are not followed through on in some circumstances and how they're followed through in- through in others and it just used to upset me to no end during course time. Oh gadzooks. |
(Exclamation) Oh no |
Girl (in various senses)
Example | Meaning |
Speaker: ... but by the way he was the first man to hire a women in the assay office. Interviewer: Oh really? Speaker: Yup. So she was the first gal- besides office work, but he was the- he was- he hired the first female. |
Girl, young lady. |
In (by) golly = (by) God.
Example | Meaning |
And he gave me names dates people and ah I followed up on it, and by golly yes May Run started in this area. |
In (by) golly = (by) God. |
N/A
Example | Meaning |
... pre-kindergarten and kindergarten. So it was, like, the- the half day in the morning or half day in the afternoon for the first two years and then grade one and then went up to grade six in elementary-school for Catholic. And then, pretty much right up to ah grade thirteen, I did the Catholic school system. |
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long). |
Example | Meaning |
Speaker: Anyhow, now I've digressed in many ways but ah really- I'm talking, I- I ended up ah, when I gradua-- I graduated from high-school, I repeated grade thirteen. And ah, my own fault, nobody else's, when you come down to it, I didn't do the work, so I had to repeat. So I took extra subjects, bettered my marks, and then I ended up going to Queen's-University for two years. |
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long). |
... as we called it in those days, normal-school, not teacher's-college. It was called normal-school. So I applied and I got in. Now, when I went to normal-school I was twenty-four years old. Anyhow it was a one-year course then, because you graduate from grade thirteen, it was a one-year course. And then they switched it a couple years later. Switched it, you could go from grade twelve but you had to take two years at normal-school. Anyhow so- and now it's become a teacher's-college. |
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long). |