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Wee

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1400, OED Evaluation: Originally Scottish

A little or young thing

ExampleMeaning
Not too much, unless you- Maybe, ah, a few candies and an orange and ah, um, maybe a new pencil or a balloon or um- possibly a little wee gift, you know, that ah would be something like a um, a clip that you 'd put on your- on your, ah, lapel or something- like-that- You-know that-that had a little saying on it.
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
There wasn 't that, and we would be lined up- lined up and then they- they put that skyline in. Well, you used to have to have tokens and pay, like, pay like, little- little wee small little tokens. Like it wouldn-- maybe ten cents or something. Wasn 't expensive. Not the way you pay- pay for in The-States you-know.
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
And the Plymouth had just a little wee dent, 'cause in those days, they made them darn solid. I mean, there was a lot of steel in them. And yeah, he hit- the whole fender came off his car.
Small, little
ExampleMeaning
Yeah, that 's- that 's what happened. 'Cause I mean the- the river 'cause- that little itty-bitty dribble that you see underneath Hogg 's-Hollow and around that area, that little wee dribble, the um old York-Mills bridge, which you can s-- you can see if you go across, is still there.
Small, little
Yeah, yeah. That used to be the fashion, there were a lot of cabins and stuff you could rent, yeah. We went up to Bert-River which is- well it 's a town, it 's a wee little town.
Small, little

weenie roast

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
... they went up in the lifeguard- tower. And they did it just because they could. And then we went across and we built a little bonfire, was it? Interviewer: Yeah. And made a weenie-roast. Speaker: We had a weenie-roast. And again, just 'cause you could. Interviewer 2: Yeah, just 'cause you could. And I mean, you could see the stars for once.
A barbecue at which wieners are cooked and served.

whereabouts

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1450, OED Evaluation: N/A

About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position?

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: I always find that- I'm not from Toronto I'm from B-C, and if this weather were already there in B-C, it would be there to stay, but kind-of have to expect the worst here, don't you? Speaker: Whereabouts in B-C you come from? Interviewer: Vancouver-Island. Speaker: Oh okay, 'cause my friend's sister's down from Vancouver Interviewer: Oh okay.
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position?
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: And does your Dad still live in Orillia? Speaker: He lives outside Orillia now, he's remarried and he has two kids um... whereabouts? Literally just outside Barrie.
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position?
Speaker: So whereabouts do you live in Victoria? Interviewer: In Nanaimo actually; it's North of Victoria. Speaker: Oh Nanaimo? Yeah, I know Nanaimo. It's awesome.
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position?
ExampleMeaning
... I see her on the path and I'm like "Susy!", that's her- that was her name. And I'm like "Susy!." She's like "Hey!." I'm like "So whereabouts in College do you live?" And she's like "Oh I live on Clinton." I'm like "No way, I live on Bathurst. I used to go to Harbord Collegiate." And she's like "Oh wow, well maybe I'll see you around some time."
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position?
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: ... about that Queen-Street area, have you been to Jeff-Healey's club? Speaker: No, I keep hearing about it- Interviewer: yeah Speaker: I love Jeff-Healey. I love his music. Interviewer: He plays there every Thursday. So you- no matter what, you can see him. Speaker: Now that's what people say. Yeah, whereabouts is he on Queen-West? Interviewer: He's right at Queen-and-Bathurst. Speaker: Right at Queen-and-Bathurst. Interviewer: Yeah, it's the- Speaker: 'Cause I know where the Black-Bull is. That's a couple over. Interviewer: Southwest corner.
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position?
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: It's a week and they go crazy. They just go drunk for a week. Speaker: Yeah. Speaker 2: That's cool. Speaker: It's carnival. Interviewer: Yeah. It's- it's like- yeah, it's like Mardi-Gras but German dress-up. Speaker: Yeah. Whereabouts in Germany? Interviewer: My dad's from Ulm. Speaker: Where 's that? Interviewer: South-central-Germany.
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position?
ExampleMeaning
And ah one of the members of the band was going out with a girl and ah so we got talking and ah I said, "Oh, are you from Toronto?" She said, "Yeah. I live in Toronto." I said "Well, whereabouts do you live?" And she said, "Oh, the High-Park area." And I said "Oh, I used to live in the High-Park area." And I said, "What street did you live on?" She says, "Quebec. You know where Quebec-Avenue is?"
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position?

Winterize

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1938, OED Evaluation: Originally and chiefly U.S.

To adapt or prepare (something) for operation or use in cold weather.

ExampleMeaning
Most of the people only came down in the summer. I think some of them did winterize it a bit and stayed through- through the year. And then in the thirties, somewhere in the thirties, the city said, "We 're- we 're going to make it a park."
Prepared for winter

women's lib

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1969, OED Evaluation: colloq.

Women's Liberation (The liberation of women from inferior social status and all forms of sexual discrimination; a movement with these aims.)

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Interesting there's that perception. I mean is that true of the larger business world? Like, is there men's jobs, women's jobs-? Speaker: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Women's lib never happened, plus- but if you- again, if you go back and look at the skills, okay, they are- it's is- yes, there's a significant portion that's business skills, but a lot of it still is that nurturing, interpersonal, communicating ...
Women's Liberation (The liberation of women from inferior social status and all forms of sexual discrimination; a movement with these aims.)
ExampleMeaning
Probably relatively okay but it's very macho sort-of- so Tim would be a little more macho than one might wish he were and Linda's quite you-know, relatively you-know, women's-lib sort of thing and, anyway. I don't know if you got anymore questions to ask me?
Women's Liberation (The liberation of women from inferior social status and all forms of sexual discrimination; a movement with these aims.)

Yack

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1950, OED Evaluation: N/A

To engage in trivial or unduly persistent conversation; to chatter.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: You-- you 're lucky my mouth is shut for t-- two months. That 's why I 'm yacking. Seriously. Interviewer: No, no, I wanna hear, I wanna hear. Speaker: I can 't believe my voice is still holding out. Um, so yeah ah- my craft is really coming along and um, I made a whole bunch of stuff and I did sell some stuff to friends
Casual talk

Young-people’s

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

NA

ExampleMeaning
When we were always- I always went to Sunday-School and later, Young-People's and sang in the choir.
A church group for teenagers.
ExampleMeaning
I don 't know. We were in the A-Y- that 's Anglican-Young-People's- that was the young people's group.
A church group for teenagers.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: I think I didn 't- I certainly went to church and I went to young-peoples and I went- Interviewer: What 's young- peoples? Speaker: Oh young-peoples was the young people's group at church. So I went to church young-peoples. At first to church, I went to Sunday-school and I went to church- young-peoples and I- hmm, I went to the cottage in the summer.
A church group for teenagers.