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camp

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

A cottage; typically with no electricity

ExampleMeaning
You go down the road and it goes to the cross-country ski club but then there's a trail there that brings you up north. And you go to the place where like the falls are and it's a really nice place- like you-know, everyone goes there like to fish and camp out and-stuff. And we go there to fish but we have a spot that's like- we'll park at the top of the rocks, like the perfect view, you can see the falls and-everything.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
I remember 'cause like I went Skidooing all day and then you get home, you-know you'd have uh- yeah last year, last year was awesome. I remember that day was so perfect. I went Skidooing- we went Skidooing at our camp all day with our buddy and he- it was funny 'cause the way- this is- this is- this one's really funny. H-- his Skidoo like- he blew his belt and his spare belt's like- like- usually there's like a piece of like the- like the- I'll call it the hood.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
ExampleMeaning
Normally we get snow in December there, and last year we were using the four-wheelers and the side-by-sides to go to our camp on New-Year-s 'cause we always have a party with ah our family from Toronto. They always come down and there's always ah- there was- we were using the four-wheelers, there was still not enough snow.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
Yeah. And then if we weren't at our camp they were playing Call-of-Duty on my P-S-4 and their parents would get mad at me 'cause that's all we'd do sometimes, but that's all they wanted to do, so. I just let them do that. So, yeah.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
Like I've heard of crazy stories but I've never seen like that craziness and, I've been at- well I did one thing that I kind-of regret but, that was ah- yeah well, me and my friend, we told my parents we were going to go drink at my camp or-whatever, so, we went there. Then I remember we ended up- it was like nine o-clock and we got a text from someone in town that there was a party. So we were like, "Okay, let's go to it, there." But I didn't tell my parents.
A cottage; typically with no electricity
Well there was always- well, he'd always like tell us stories of the war and how like- 'cause we'd eat supper or-whatever and we'd have like spaghetti and he'd always tell us like, "Oh yeah, I remember when I was in the war there, and we were at the camp and all we'd get was mutton and the chef at the end would have just this one big square cake and everybody'd go get a piece and-" I heard that one a couple times.
A cottage; typically with no electricity

to get the strap

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Ah w-- they have some homework for us to do. But we didn't know how to do the homework, we- 'cause our parents were English. Interviewer: Yep. Speaker: So we would go back to school the next day, still no homework done, and ah- and- and then we get the strap. Interviewer: Yep. Speaker: The wouldn't hit us hard, but- but just ah the idea of the strap being in her hands was kind-of- you-know? So it was- so ah- Interviewer: Scary. Speaker: The- finally the ah- in grade-one- I- I lasted all kindergarten.
a form of corporal punishment involving a leather strap being slapped across the hands