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... and then the Anglican-Church they have a- a fowl-supper which is turkey and all the trimmings and the- you'll have to get Doug to bring you up here these times you-know! |
A harvest meal, usually held by church or other religion, where poultry is served as a main course. |
used as a coarse expletive.
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So way we go running back like that was big thing. Yeah. Watching it frigging burn. It was really sad though. |
used as a coarse expletive. |
A channel or ravine worn in the earth by the action of water, esp. in a mountain or hill side.
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Ah, well yeah we've had the flood here, but really doesn't affect us here we- like this- whole gully down in here it'll fill full o' water once it floods up in the spring but. We're actually pretty fortunate that way. It really doesn't affect us. |
Ditch |
An ignorant countryman; a silly fellow, booby.
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They called anybody that- that lived out of- they can't do it now- but in- in our day when we went we were called hicks always. They didn't- they you-know they had their own cliques and associated and of course we were just one or two people because we were outsiders. |
Person who lives in the country. Regarded as unintelligent. |
An ignorant countryman; a silly fellow, booby.
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Um. I think we probably definitely have our own hick-ish I-don't-know language going on. |
Person who lives in the country. Regarded as unintelligent. |
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Interviewer: So it's just a Burnt-River thing? It doesn't spread out anywhere else? What about Kinmount? Speaker: Yeah. Kinmount a bit yeah. It's more hick than Burnt-River maybe. It's- I-don't-know. |
Person who lives in the country. Regarded as unintelligent. |
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Speaker 1: That's funny 'cause that's in Davey's monologue, I remember that. Speaker 2: Do you? Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 2: A hick accent? Interviewer: 'Cause that's one of the things we were asking all the communities |
Person who lives in the country. Regarded as unintelligent. |
Speaker 1: Like I don't notice it. Like Adam's never said- Speaker 2: It's a hick accent anyway. Speaker 1: Adam's never said to me that I have an accent. He's never- and like he's from the city. |
Person who lives in the country. Regarded as unintelligent. |
Speaker: Like people- some people who live here have hick accents. |
Person who lives in the country. Regarded as unintelligent. |
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Example | Meaning |
But the Indians want their own. And now the other kids as I tell you work- Sam works at a hunting camp just out of Sault-Lookout, Mandy lives a-- or she works at the big- there's a big store it's all ah groceries, she works there. And now Rebecca is the youngest and she works f-- where A-- Andy used to work at the ah drug store ... |
a shelter, usually in the middle of the wilderness, where hunters live during a hunting trip; may be a temporary structure or more permanent, like a shared cottage |
Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.
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'Cause a lot of people are more money hungry nowadays I think than it was way back then. 'Cause things are so much more expensive now-a-days too. You gotta think about- I know I never ever thought about a hydro bill or a phone bill or- or a gas bill for that matter you-know. Now you have a car you gotta have money to drive it, you-know and to maintain it and-all-that, so that's a little different. |
Of, or relating to, hydroelectric power. |
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They sort of look after- they- they go in and mark trees for a company to come in and harvest them. So if their taking hydro - poles or if they're taking pulp, it all depends which one's they want and they mark certain trees for a certain harvest and- and they transplant new trees back when they're finished in harvesting so. |
Of, or relating to, hydroelectric power. |
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No I once- once I left h-- home my sister left, she went to Toronto to work and my brother worked at the- you-know the ah- not the hydro plants out of Toronto or Pickering- oh it's- what is it? Nuclear w-- thing- thing. |
Of, or relating to, hydroelectric power. |
Example | Meaning |
I-- I'm going back to school actually in May just for- just two nights a week for two months just to get a course 'cause they want you to have this course for Toronto-Hydro, so hopefully after I get that, it'll work out. If not, I-guess I'll just keep trying. ... I'm going to school at nights, two nights a-week, so- ... Ah, just tr-- for the Hydro, so, trying to- do the Hydro thing, so- |
Of, or relating to, hydroelectric power. |
Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.
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But one- school- and you had no lamp eh or to do your homework, eh, I don't know how a person ever say for- (inc) not very long ago when hydro went out we had the lamps out- up and you could hardly see so we don't know how we ever did homework by- by a lamp. |
Hydroelectric power. |
Example | Meaning |
When I was a kid back in nineteen-fifty-four- now we're going a long way back, Hurricane-Hazel hit and ah that did tremendous amount of damage around here. ... Um the hydro was out for I-don't-know, three or four days, I guess it was. Um trees down all over the place. Um, trying to think what else happened. There was a lot of water then. There was a few floods- |
Hydroelectric power. |
And we have to come home and couple times there she says "um, wha-- we gonna get there pretty soon?" I said "oh yeah pretty soon." Then we get up here I say "well, you-know, I've gotta re-- gotta remind you we got no running water, no hydro we're so far back in the bush." You-know just to tease her eh but she likes it here 'cause it's nice and quiet. |
Hydroelectric power. |
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Interviewer: What would hap-- like did you ever have a curfew or? Speaker: No we didn't, well of course nobody went out at night in- in those days because there were no streetlights. There was no hydro, no nothing. You were in the dark. Until they got streetlights in Coboconk and- and then they got them here too. |
Hydroelectric power. |
... and my other brother worked oh what- he used to do ah- wiring, you-know like- if say you wanted your house wired, if you were getting the hydro he- that was his job. That's the work he worked at. And that's all of us. |
Hydroelectric power. |
... I knew nothing about building. Ah- and-but Charles and as he said he didn't either, but he- he- first thing he done he got ah two books to told you- first of all there was building, carpentering work and then there was hydro and then there was ah plumbing. And any th-- all these you see it was there in front of you, so that he could do a-- any of the things that we wanted done- he done- he done it himself. |
Hydroelectric power. |