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Frigging or fricking

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1560, OED Evaluation: NA

used as a coarse expletive.

ExampleMeaning
Yo mother-fucker dish me out you-know "give me the friggin' cigarettes" or whatever.
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
Well maybe thats an option because the hotels rooms there are so frigging expensive.
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
I dont need to own the frigging house.
used as a coarse expletive.

Funner or Funnest

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1727, OED Evaluation: N/A

As noun: Diversion, amusement, sport; also, boisterous jocularity or gaiety, drollery. Also, a source or cause of amusement or pleasure.

ExampleMeaning
I- The funnest part was recording. That was kind-of neat, and going to the big studio.
Superlative/comparative form of fun.
ExampleMeaning
Um no. Ni-- okay fine my funnest trip was when my school went to Ottawa.
Superlative/comparative form of fun.
ExampleMeaning
Yeah, that was the funnest house I lived in.
Superlative/comparative form of fun.
ExampleMeaning
But yeah it was a fun job but not my funnest job. Interviewer: What would you say your funnest job was? Speaker: Um, Funnest job? Okay the summer that just passed I worked at Science-Outreach. That was with the U-of-T like an Engineering um Camp for kids like teaching them about like the fun of Math, Science and Engineering. That- that was pretty fun! I enjoyed that. But I 'll say the funnest job I 've had was working at K-F-C.
Superlative/comparative form of fun.
ExampleMeaning
My favorite ride was Drop-Zone. That was the most funnest ride there.
Superlative/comparative form of fun.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: I ah- today I ah, put my guitar into drop-D. Speaker: It 's funner.
Superlative/comparative form of fun.
ExampleMeaning
And then she 's like- and then Duke was like, "Clara 's like, patient and understanding and funner."
Superlative/comparative form of fun.
ExampleMeaning
No it's just funner. 'Cause I've been doing skiing my whole life and I wanted something new.
Superlative/comparative form of fun.

Gab

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1790, OED Evaluation: N/A

The action of gabbing or talking; conversation, prattle, talk, twaddle

ExampleMeaning
Whatever. Doesn 't matter. Do you even ha-- like do you have like set questions though or are we just going to like gab about high-school or something?
To chat a lot
ExampleMeaning
Yes. But people say that my named describe my personality 'cause I gab a lot. I 'm a gabber. Gabbers!
To chat a lot

gal

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1795, OED Evaluation: colloq. and regional (now chiefly N. Amer. and Caribbean).

Girl (in various senses)

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Maybe I'll cancel it. Speaker 2: Then you don't have to- Speaker: Make an appointment for a- maybe in a couple of weeks. Speaker 2: (inc.) Speaker: I'll see my gal at the end of September, so I'd like to go- Interviewer: That's a lot of money, you spend a lot of money on hair. Speaker 2: Most women do.
Girl, young lady.
ExampleMeaning
And uh so, you-know, the gal up the street who um, who does shift work as a waitress at the restaurant at the bottom of the street will knock on the door and say "Cou-- do you mind watching my kid for three hours?" "No problem."
Girl, young lady.
... in our scripts we try to um offer our host suggested adjectives that they can use in describing something, um the gal at um, uh that I work with who hosts uh, our food show, she 's right now, sitting on her sunny porch in Venice-Beach and she's a surfer gal and she- she's always saying "Oh good to go," or "Dude" and "Cool" so she's- she's someone who we definitely have to provide adjectives for, now not because she isn't intelligent, she's a very smart girl, but she can get away with saying that.
Girl, young lady.
ExampleMeaning
... he and Mary wanted to see somebody so they left us and we stayed at the Delta-Hotel right there on the airport and Mar-- Marie knew a p-- ah a gal, from the church, and we visited her, and I can't remember the name of the island, but it's in between ah, Vancouver-Island and British-Columbia, and we went to see her for about ah, three or four days, then we came back, yeah.
Girl, young lady.

Gift of gab

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1790, OED Evaluation: N/A

The action of gabbing or talking; conversation, prattle, talk, twaddle

ExampleMeaning
So I- I couldn 't tell when he wrote it but he tr-- he did say "If she appears to be too wordy," he said ah "You 've got the gift the Irish- the gift of gab."
To chat a lot
ExampleMeaning
And I was like, "Ba-ba-du-ba," like I didn't know what to say. I'm like- I am not one to be struck dumb, the gift of the gab is one of my like gifts of the world, I could not think of a thing to say.
To chat a lot

Go by the board

Parf of speech: NA, OED Year: 1630, OED Evaluation: N/A

by the board : to fall overboard, to go for good and all, to be ‘carried away’.

ExampleMeaning
I think that Toronto used to be the city for public-health, but now it isn 't anymore. Everything has gone, by the board. Its ah too bad. And we had child-health-centres for each area where the people came and brought their babies and we had two doctors who usually came in and ah, would see them.
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