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Extended French

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
So I was in grade-eleven and um- wait, September two-thousand-and-one, yeah, starting grade-eleven. So it was this class where, like I said before how I was in extended French. Basically what they did in grade-eleven and grade-twelve was that for some reason, they thought it would be a good idea to like combine extended and immersion French kids together.
Late-entry French immersion programs beginning around Grade 7 or 8 (as opposed to early immersion programs, which may begin as early as kindergarten).

fag hag

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1969, OED Evaluation: Orig. U.S.; Usu. derogatory.

A heterosexual woman who prefers or seeks out the company of homosexual men.

ExampleMeaning
Well I can be a drag-queen but I don't want to be. Like, "I can be the overly-effeminate guy or I can just be really vocal." And so he's the really vocal- i-- if- if straight girls had an equivalent it would be like their fag-hag. ... He likes to collect straight girls, in that sense and be their best friend. It's a little odd that way. Interviewer: Interesting, role-reversal.
A heterosexual woman who prefers or seeks out the company of homosexual men.

family affair

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: What about Christmas? What was the s-- way you used to celebrate Christmas? Speaker: Well Christmas is a family affair, and it still is with our family too. We always have Christmas together, uh, and, not always New-Year-s.
An event or gathering involving much of the family.

Fine-and-dandy

Parf of speech: Expression, OED Year: 1908, OED Evaluation: U.S.

Fine, splendid, first-rate. colloq. (orig. U.S.). Freq. in phr. fine and dandy.

ExampleMeaning
Certainly, if he 's gainfully employed and learning a trade, that 's fine and dandy with us,
Fine, splendid, first-rate.
So anyways, that was fine and dandy.
Fine, splendid, first-rate.
There 's a Second- Cup place there. Okay. That 's fine and dandy with me, as- I guess- I- it looks the Chinese people run it. I got nothing against the Chinese people eh?
Fine, splendid, first-rate.

Fisticuffs

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1600, OED Evaluation: N/A

Blows or fighting with the fists.

ExampleMeaning
I don 't even know how old he was, maybe sixteen, seventeen, perhaps eighteen, but anyway. Um, and he got into verbal fisticuffs with one of the patrons.
Fist fight
Speaker: I don 't even know how old he was, maybe sixteen, seventeen, perhaps eighteen, but anyway. Um, and he got into verbal fisticuffs with one of the patrons. Interviewer: Fisticuffs? Speaker: Fisticuffs, yes! I like that word. With a patron who was probably fourteen, he definitely younger, but again in that sub-adult-hormonal kind-of phase. And um you-know they were yelling at each other and calling each other names and you could see it and I was behind glass,
Fist fight

Flipping

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1911, OED Evaluation: Slang

Used as a substitute for a strong expletive. Usually derogatory

ExampleMeaning
Racoon-tail hat? Like it was either Eatons or The- Bay but it sold two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand of these flipping hats.
Used as a substitute for a strong expletive. Usually derogatory

Floored

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1830, OED Evaluation: colloquial

To confound, nonplus; to flabbergast, puzzle.

ExampleMeaning
So anyway I was getting so pissed after a while so I went back to the guy who was like, the serious drug-dealer at Earl-Haig at the time who was friends with us, which is awesome, and I was like, "Listen this is not cool. It 's like prom-night you-know. I have to be fucked. It 's not even cool." So- and he was messed by that time so he 's like, "Ah, sure whatever," and he gave me another one. So I took half of that. So now this is the equivalent of taking like three caps of E. And I took half of that. So I 'm wandering around and I think I stepped over onto the balcony like maybe half-an-hour later and it hit me like a double-barrel-shotgun to the face. Okay? It was like "Blam! Holy-fuck!" And I was floored after that.
Surprised
ExampleMeaning
Yeah, 'cause there were like fighter-jets flying over New-York-City, you-know, and that, it shows you just the scope of what happened. One of the things that floored me most was they made every flight all around the world land.
Surprised
ExampleMeaning
I started to question myself thinking, "How do you know? You- these people apparently were normal decent ever-- and all of a sudden they turned on their neighbour," which totally floored me, "and today sometimes-" Oh I believe it would be no different. We 're- we 're very complicated.
Surprised

Franglais

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1959, OED Evaluation: N/A

A corrupt version of the French language produced by the indiscriminate introduction of words and phrases of English and American origin.

ExampleMeaning
Like I like- like I find it so amazing, because- not so much in like Quebec-City or like Riviere-du-loup, but in Montreal, the francophones speak perfect French, like it's not like Franglais, like it's not- yeah. Perfect French and perfect English. Like you cannot tell what they are.
A corrupt version of the French language produced by the indiscriminate introduction of words and phrases of English and American origin.

Frigging or fricking

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

used as a coarse expletive.

ExampleMeaning
They're probably not even typing, they're probably playing like frigging black jack.
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
Oh. I-don-t-know. I kind-of figured it could start out as an Ellersley party and Id see how many frigging kids actually live on Ellersley.
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
'Cause I- I want to have kids and stuff I want to pass on my seed. But ah you-know fricking- if Im going to marry a woman shes going to be the opposite of my sister Emily.
used as a coarse expletive.
I will bite you in your sleep." You-know have like fricking you- know jazz beat poetry going on.
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Okay I actually-Kay I went up to the place with my Mom and I couldnt park. Couldnt park period. Like there was nothing to it. My Mom tried to give me a crash course in it- tried to teach me how to frigging park the car. Interviewer: Like back it into the slot? Speaker: I couldnt do it. I coudlnt park- I couldnt park the frigging car. I mean I could-.
used as a coarse expletive.
Shes like "Parallel park right here." In the middle of the frigging traffic.
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
Why is there always a shooting and someone always dies at Carabana? Every frigging year?
used as a coarse expletive.