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Grade thirteen

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Wow so ah how much below minimum wage were they paying you? Speaker: I don't remember but I- once I got to let's-say grade twelve or grade thirteen, I started getting mad about the fact that I wasn't making minimum wage, like, "I deserve to make minimum wage."
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).

hunt camp

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

N/A

ExampleMeaning
... he was in the real-estate business, but it was him and Dave-Hornerd, and fella name of Cedric-McDougal at Apsley, he was a car dealer, ah um who else- and his son Marvin but he controlled- this Cedric-McDougal, he controlled this here hunt camp and it was on the east road of Apsley. You ever up the east road of Apsley?
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

hydro - 1

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1916, OED Evaluation: N/A

Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.

ExampleMeaning
Ah, there's usually a gas main. Um, which is smaller and it takes gas to most people's houses. Um, there's usually a whole smattering of Bell cables, Cogeco wires, and-things-like-that. They usually have some of that underground. They usually don't have Hydro wires but there's usually Bell cable. Um not necessarily even for like T-V or phone it'll be for powering ah, traffic lights and-things-like-that. They'll have- yeah they'll have cables for that underneath.
Of, or relating to, hydroelectric power.

hydro - 2

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1916, OED Evaluation: N/A

Short for hydro-electric adj. (power, plant). Also attrib. In Canada also = hydro-electric power supply. Cf. hydropower n.

ExampleMeaning
... ah- the ah post-depression years. Thirty, and ah- ah not a lot of ah- extra money to go around or benefits. We didn't have running water we didn't have hydro ah we had ah coal-oil lamps and wood stoves and ah my poor mother ah had the hand-washing of ah- of ah all our laundry and clothes. Ah- six children in eight years and ah she deserves a medal ...
Hydroelectric power.

Kitty-corner

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1838, OED Evaluation: U.S. dial.

None, but probably related to cater-corner. Diagonally; diagonal. So cater-cornering adj. and n., catty-cornering adj. and n.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Just across from ah the school, the catholic-school. Oh wow. Speaker: Yeah kitty-corner to it. Yeah yeah so he- um he built that and so um yeah we'd ah- it was ah far enough that we got to go to any errand we were going yeah.
Diagonal
Yeah yeah. Um yeah yeah well it was just- it was about three streets behind the church on Saint-Catherine's, and it was kitty-corner to Saint-Paul's-School.
Diagonal
ExampleMeaning
Uh, well, we built a house on the corner of ah William and Caroline, up from ah ah, the Church. Kitty-corner from the separate school, it's a brick home up there right on ah ah let's see, the northwest corner of William and Caroline.
Diagonal

Lad

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1440, OED Evaluation: N/A

A boy, youth; a young man, young fellow. Also, in the diction of pastoral poetry, used to denote ‘a young shepherd’. In wider sense applied familiarly or endearingly (sometimes ironically) to a male person of any age, esp. in the form of address my lad

ExampleMeaning
So they've been really good friends sorta and then Trevor come along and of-course Evan took over with Trevor, so Trevor's just been with Evan so much that he just wanted to be an O-P-P, that's all there is to it. So and I-guess his young lad's going to be the same too. That young lad he's just- he's wants that too you-know.
Boy
So they've been really good friends sorta and then Trevor come along and of-course Evan took over with Trevor, so Trevor's just been with Evan so much that he just wanted to be an O-P-P, that's all there is to it. So and I-guess his young lad's going to be the same too. That young lad he's just- he's wants that too you-know.
Boy
ExampleMeaning
And then we bought a house right on the main street, and it was close to the highway and then some nights you couldn't sleep because all the young lads were tearing up and down. That's payback I guess.
Boy
ExampleMeaning
...we were going to get in the room alright, and along come this drunk, and he walked right into the room. Well you talk about a lad coming back out of there in a hurry.
Boy
And I looked and here's this fella walking in. Strapping big good looking lad, and all at once it hit me who he was. And I could-- and I was closer and just close as I am to you, and you-know I don't know why I didn't s-- you-know speak to him. And I- I'm surprised at him coming in there all alone. But anyhow he went over and they interviewed him there, that's the closest I got to him.
Boy
And they like venison they just love the- eat- he's eaten venison every time he comes in here "I had venison last night. We got some dandy's last year ho ho ho just big lads." And ah no if things you-know and they didn't get anything I would.
Boy
And when Ed was just a young lad him and Roy was great friends, and its just what I’ve seen rub off that Ed and- and Trevor now are great friends, so he talked to Trevor and-this, and I think it’s what got Trevor going into the police business so.
Boy
Because he said, "He'd a book there reading about Donald-Duck and these episodes up north." Just foolish things like that though, this fella name of Ed-Laker and he was an awful lad.
Boy
Just stay right on the- round and round. I used to- I used to go to Apsley in the winter time, ah one or two day's a week and I'd meet a couple of lads this here Clark-McMillar and another fella at what they call A-- Ann-Struther-Lake turn.
Boy
My brother-in-law he used to be great lad for reading, and ah this lad in Peterborough phoned, name of Laker, and he said- and this is the truth and I believe him he said, "I walked out in the afternoon." He said, "Left my watch."
Boy
No, no him and Earl Garner and another lad hunt by themselves, they're not that far away they wouldn't be any further than here to oh maybe Jack-and-Jill-Farms. Yeah. No trouble to walk.
Boy
Oh yeah. Yeah we had quite a few delivery boys, it was a fellow the name of Bob-Faust and he’d dead now. He died fairly young and ah but they were good lads. And who else? Oh there’s one lad I forget what his name was. I had about four different ones over a period of time you-know?
Boy
That was Capital-Theatre there and they were the two main ones. And the Region was kind-of a western, most people- or a lot of us lads right go to them western shows.
Boy