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Golly

Parf of speech: Exclamation, OED Year: 1743, OED Evaluation: Origin U.S.

In (by) golly = (by) God.

ExampleMeaning
Used to walk out there and golly you could just hear them hissing eh?
In (by) golly = (by) God.

Grade thirteen

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
011> Or you could wade out, you could wade down through the snow and get on it you-know? And then when summer came, we- we'd sometimes- that's the school I went to. Um- isn't that the Wilberforce-school? Interviewer: Wil-- Wilberforce-Consolidated-Continuation-School. Speaker: Yup, went right up to grade-thirteen at one time. Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: I went to ten there. And then I was part of the- the ah f-- but I was going into grade-eleven. I was fortunate- I was the youngest in my family. My sister had come over here in grade-eleven and twelve and boarded to
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long).
My sister had come over here in grade-eleven and twelve and boarded to finish her eleven and twelve and then she went to Lindsey for grade-thirteen.
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long).
Interviewer: So what have you- so you finished high-school and then where did you go to teacher's college then? Speaker: It was the last year, they called it normal-school and I went to Peterborough and ah boarded there for the year. If you had grade-thirteen, like your full c-- full year, you went one year to- to normal-school. And that was the year they changed their mind and started c-- the next year it was called teacher's-college. Fifty-two, fifty-three was the last year it was called normal-school.
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long).
ExampleMeaning
So I asked my husband if I could go back to grade-thirteen and go get- become a teacher. So- he decided he would too. So we both came up here- back up to high-school. We were the first married couple to be accepted. 'Cause you had to get special permission from the school board.
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long).

granary

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1570, OED Evaluation: N/A

A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.

ExampleMeaning
... the straw that would come from- i-- if they were in the straw mow, they would be filthy. Ah, and then there'd be somebody bagging the oats, I-guess or putting them into the granary or-something.
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.

Grouse

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1887, OED Evaluation: Army slang

To grumble.

ExampleMeaning
I have become a hunter. You-know, I never was but and I kept grousing about the deer eating my vegetables. And somebody said, "Well you should become a hunter." And that was always in our family tradition, to um- you put up your own meat whether it was your- from y-- these- do you know the book um, um "Omnivore's Dilemma"?
Petty complaining

hay fork

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Can you explain to me what the mow is? Speaker: Well it's the upper part of the barn. You walk into the barn floor w-- and there's a- a mow on each side that you mile the hay. Before we had ma-- ah, bails, there was a hay fork rope, ah, a hay fork. We still have it up in the barn. They bring it in in a wagon, loose and they'd stick these big forks and grab i-- big piece of hay and then the- they'd have the horses hitched and somehow or the other
An implement that is used to haul hay from the ground level to a hayloft or other high location
ExampleMeaning
they pull it up with a sling and then i-- there's a track in there and it goes a long the track and it goes along the track and you can trip it with a rope and drop it wherever you want in the mow. Sometimes they used a hay fork for that, but quite often they used these slings.
An implement that is used to haul hay from the ground level to a hayloft or other high location
ExampleMeaning
I run the tractor and- and ah- Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: Yeah so I went down there for part of the summer just for ah farm experience, I guess. Interviewer: Square bails or- Speaker: No just loose hay. Interviewer: Stoots. Speaker: Loose. Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: You- you just used um a hay fork and load it onto the wagon and hauled it in and- and ah piled it up into the- they had a sling that would bring it up and then go over it and then drop it.
An implement that is used to haul hay from the ground level to a hayloft or other high location

Hick

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1565, OED Evaluation: Chiefly U.S.

An ignorant countryman; a silly fellow, booby.

ExampleMeaning
Um, I- maybe a little bit. I'd like to say w-- like "hick" if that makes sense (laughs). Like just um, some of the things that we say just may be a little different. I don't- I don't know if I can think of anything but I don't really notice a d-- (inc) I don't really notice a difference actually now that...
Person who lives in the country. Regarded as unintelligent.

Hick

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1565, OED Evaluation: Chiefly U.S.

An ignorant countryman; a silly fellow, booby.

ExampleMeaning
And so that was a more of a- more of the Canadian accent, um- yeah like um- there- there definitely is, for sure, like there's that- you don't want to say hick accent, but there's that- that small-town kind-of- more like the south we have that mo-- like the south just different,
Person who lives in the country. Regarded as unintelligent.
ExampleMeaning
Um there was like the artsy-weirdo-kids, which was me and a lot of our friends and the jock sort of kids which kind of melded in with the sort of like hick, backwoods, country kids and- there's all sorts of them, but there was- I don't-know we all knew each other cause we all grew up together for so long that you kind of cross paths...
Person who lives in the country. Regarded as unintelligent.

Hoof

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1652, OED Evaluation: N/A

going on foot

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: How would you get to the- to the end of the road if the snow was deep? Gosh. Speaker: Well you hoofed it waded in the wooden skis. I skied quite a bit.
Go on foot

horse-blanket

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1818, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: We'd be all nice and cuddly warm and you hear the horses going along and- and hear the sleigh bells ringing. It was- yeah cold but- but we were warm. Interviewer: What did- what did they wrap you in? Horse blankets or bear skins- Speaker: Yes, oh yeah, no horse blankets yeah horse- Interviewer: Somebody tells me the smell of a horse blanket is a real nice smell. Speaker: It is a nice smell. And- well it's got a real horsey smell. And of course horses smell anyway. And that's an-- thats an-- that's the thing. With the smell and with the- the sounds- oh wonderful, yes.
A blanket worn by passengers riding a horse-drawn carriage, buggy, or sleigh, especially in the winter.
ExampleMeaning
And um, one thing I do remember is if my dad happened to be home and- and it was a cold day or it was a stormy day, he'd come to school the horses and sleighs and pick us up and cover us up with horth- blankets- and horse blankets- Interviewer: Oh really? Speaker: Had a r-- a smell that you remember- not a bad smell but a smell that you remember you-know?
A blanket worn by passengers riding a horse-drawn carriage, buggy, or sleigh, especially in the winter.

how do you mean

Parf of speech: Expression, OED Year: 1816, OED Evaluation: arch.

To what effect? With what meaning? Also, By what name? (The modern English equivalent is ‘What?’)

ExampleMeaning
Speaker 2: Down on the lower landing and we were cutting firewood and for whatever reason, I turned it off, I turned of the motors and so we- we could hear him up the hill. Speaker: W-- well how do you mean you hear them moving or howling or- Speaker 2: Howling. Speaker: Howling. Howling? In the day time? Speaker 2: Yeah, it was yipping or-something.
what do you mean

hunt camp

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
'Cause she had got her first deer license too. ... Like a lot of- like what you're not used to. There's a lot of local girls that hunt. ... (inc) hunt camps. ... And part of the hunt camps- ... A lot of them hunt. ... And it's okay. It's- ... Part of life.
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

hunting camp

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1770, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
I have a really good hunting story. ... Well um, my dad let me go to- to his hunting camp to hunt deer. So I was with him and we're up on a hill and we look down, and we see a deer. So he gets ready, he shoots, he shoots.
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
Near um New-Year's-Eve um, we've been to this hunting camp for two years and um the first year it was in- it was twenty-ten, it was t-- it was coming to twenty-eleven. And that was a fun a party we stayed up all night and then-
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