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Four-wheel

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1848, OED Evaluation: N/A

A four-wheeled carriage.(noun)

ExampleMeaning
Yeah and on my weekends off, you-know, it's family time or go four-wheeling or shopping for more groceries for my growing child.
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.
You-know, go four-wheeling with them.
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.
Well it's- none of the wives like to four-wheel- they- they- I mean one of my friends is a Catholic school teacher.
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.
I've always hung out with the guys per se because they like to go four-wheeling and they're all liking my truck and they're jealous of my truck.
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.
ExampleMeaning
Um, no. But we were four-wheeling and we came- we- we're like we're going down the Nursery-Street road and we're like going pretty good, and there was a mother and her four cubs but they were last year's cubs so they just ran right in front of us and we had ah really put on our brakes, eh for that one.
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.
Yeah, I'll take that quite a bit. Or four-wheeling I love the mud, eh? My husband hates it (laughs).
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.
ExampleMeaning
Fish, Four-wheel, we bring our bikes out there.
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.
ExampleMeaning
They four-wheel around there.
Ride a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle.

Frigging or fricking

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

used as a coarse expletive.

ExampleMeaning
Couldn't have been aftercause my family went like frigging poor afterwards (laughs).
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
The frigging interview (laughs).
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
There's a whole series of things one time and I kept saying (inc)- oh we had a whole big friggin' incident up in Matheson, where I actually put- (laughs) Am I keeping you?
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
They have their- they sit in a corner, smoke a joint, sell their coke, do their frigging, their rape drugs and-that and that's how they profit because there's nothing else for them to docause they don't have the education to go to the mine.
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Because when I used to play it long time ago when I was like seven years old, um the first level Sonic-Adventure-One, when you're running away from the killer-whale, if you fall in the water there was no- there was nothing programmed underneath of the water so it was just blue everywhere and then you fall in the water and you-know it's blue and that's kind-of scary- Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: to me but- and then there's a fricking killer-whale in there and you turn around and it's like coming towards you out of the blue.
used as a coarse expletive.
But I like being really fricking good at Super-Metroid.
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
They wouldn't even bring a frigging loaf of bread.
used as a coarse expletive.
ExampleMeaning
Trying to teach two little ones there- can you just imagine like- frigging twenty fifteen-year-olds all with their opinion trying to tell you off in one-way-or-another. "Can't teach me nothing. Ha-ha."
used as a coarse expletive.

Funner or Funnest

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1727, OED Evaluation: N/A

As noun: Diversion, amusement, sport; also, boisterous jocularity or gaiety, drollery. Also, a source or cause of amusement or pleasure.

ExampleMeaning
We kind-of do themes and-stuff now so it's a lot funner.
Superlative/comparative form of fun.

Gaffer

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1590, OED Evaluation: N/A

Used simply as a title of address, often with no intimation of respect

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: ...it's heart-breaking. Yeah. And you-know- but ah there was a lot of cases like that, you-know, where ah, you-know, people- innocent people are- I can understand why mad drunken drivers- I mean I can understand the feeling and ah it even woke me up 'cause I used to have an odd drink you-know? We used to think nothing of drinking around town here 'cause it was you-know, you go from here to here and that's it, you-know? Interviewer: Ah well there's nothing too much wrong with that. Speaker: No but ah you- today these young gaffers you-know, they're so anxious to nail you, you can have a half of- half a glass of beer for heaven's sake, they'll- they'll try to lock you up.
A young child

gal

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1795, OED Evaluation: colloq. and regional (now chiefly N. Amer. and Caribbean).

Girl (in various senses)

ExampleMeaning
It's still there but it's not run by the Poles anymore. This gal bought it last year. A couple of years ago.
Girl, young lady.
But anyways I- I just getting off the elevator at the nursing home one day and this gal that I'd known, Tessie, and she had her friend with her.
Girl, young lady.