@Ceili,
Hooped doesn't exist in my world. I think I may have heard it but didn't know what it meant.
There are a lot of words on the graphic you posted earlier that I'm not familiar with. Probably regionalisms.
My interpretation of these words/phrases..
People: Hoser – See SCTV; Keener – go getter
Sayings: Take Off – Get lost; Give’r – A cheer - go faster, harder; Hooped – Up a creek without… hooped - fucked; Skookum – good; Turfed out – kicked out; In Hospital/University – a patient/student.
Places: Bachelor Apartment – one room apartment; Washroom – the loo, bathroom, toilet; Fire Hall – Fire Station; University – building or the degree program; College – 2 year or less program, Corner Store - obvious, Arena – hold all kinds of events from hockey games to dances, cattle shows, rodeos et el; ABM – ATM – bank machine; Wicket – place to buy tickets; BFI Bin – big garbage bin – waste management, Canteen – a little store – usually in a hockey arena
Clothing: Toque – knit cap; Kangaroo Jacket – hoodie with a front pouch; Dressing Gown and Housecoat – pretty much the same thing, but a dressing gown is fancier - think Hugh Heffner; Track Pants – Sweat Pants; Thongs – flip flops; Knapsack – backpack; Gotch – boy’s underwear; Runners – sneakers, tennis shoes.
Alcohol: Texas Mikey - a huge container of spirits; Mikey – small container of spirits , pocket size; Forty Pounder – 40 oz bottle of spirits; Two-Four or Flat – 24 cans of beer; Pissed – drunk; Knackered – drunk or tired.
Food: All-Dressed – throw everything on it i.e. baked potato, hot dog, pizza; Chocolate Bar – chocolate candy bars like a Hershey bar wrapped in tin foil; Pablum – baby food, Candy Floss – spun sugar bought at fairs or the circus; Freezies – frozen sugar water in plastic tubes; Brown Bread – whole wheatish bread; Serviette – paper napkin; Homo Milk – homogenized milk; Whitener – powdered coffee creamer – not a milk product; Icing – Glaze - Icing Sugar - Pretty much the same thing, sweet stuff on cakes/cookies; Pop – soda, cola, coke; Doniar – see above.
Pogey – unemployment benefits, the doll; Lineup – or queue, Stagette – women’s stag party, female bachelor party, hen party; Frosh – First week of school is frosh week, rituals involve froshees being embarrassed etc.; Hydro – electrical power made from Dams; No-See-Ums – bad bug – blood sucker
Car related: Dinged – when you park your car in a parkade and the idiot next to you opens the door and dings your car, or after an accident – as in, my car got dinged last week; Clicks – kilometers – He lives 5 clicks away; Glove Box – the front box thing, on the dash where you store maps, receipts and other stuff.
Stuff: Chesterfield – A couch/sofa; Garburator - sink garbage disposal; Rubber – eraser or condom; Tin – can of food, Eaves trough – the channel attached to the eaves that drains water off the roof; Face cloth – square cloth you wash your face with, sold in towel sets; Tea Towel – used to dry your dishes/hands; Cutlery – everyday silverware; Blinds – window cover – slats slide up and down; Tap – handle to turn water on, Jiffy marker – a really thick sharpee.
I have no idea…. Sixty-Pounder, Chip Truck, Marking, Fill your boots, Two holiday, Bugger the Dog, Elastic,
@ehBeth,
We just got back from from cottage country - beautiful. But! A few nights in, snuggling into a fire, flannels and a box set of DVDs, the power went out. You gotta be kidding me. Thank god it only lasted half an hour : ) Gee'z.
@Ceili,
What's a Texas Mickey? A twenty-sixer? (every things bigger in Texas lol) I've never used or heard Twixer.
I gotta presume a sixty pounder is 60 ounce bottle.
Don't know two holiday. An extra long weekend (Good Friday and Easter Monday)?
A chip truck is a place to get roadside french fries, poutine etc. A converted truck.
Bugger the Dog has got to be the same as Fukc the dog . Waste time.
Fill your boots - A sarcastic retort. Go ahead, fill your boots.
An elastic is used to put your hair in a ponytail.
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I'm surprised that some of the things on the list are Canadianisms
@Joeblow,
A Texas Mickey is one of those huge bottles you see on display at a liquor store. They used to be really popular at fundraisers, but a ticket get a chance to become an alcoholic.
Yeah, a twenty-sixer is between a mikey and a 40 pounder, hold outs from the pre-metric era.
I thought that's what a chip truck was, we never really had them growing up out here, but when I was in the UK they were all over the place. K, yup that's what I'd call a ponytail holder too.
I didn't think most of this list was that homegrown. Odd, who knew?
I'm not aware of any of them.
Well...not with those definitions!
@margo,
Interesting and here I thought you had us beat with colloquialisms.
@tsarstepan,
Thanks for posting that. Too funny. Although..that's a lot of really bad Canuck accents.. lol
As if Barack Obama didn't have enough problems to deal with already, his administration now is being asked to weigh in on the grave matter of Justin Bieber.
By mid-day Wednesday (1700 GMT), a petition on the White House website calling for the deportation of the Canadian-born teen idol had garnered 103,000 names -- easily surpassing the threshold of 100,000 signatures required for presidential consideration.
Quote:"We would like to see the dangerous, reckless, destructive, and drug abusing, Justin Bieber deported and his green card revoked. He is not only threatening the safety of our people but he is also a terrible influence on our nation's youth. We the people would like to remove Justin Bieber from our society."
A beer vending machine that made sure only Canadians get a free brew at any moment, just as long as they have their passports.
@tsarstepan,
THIS JUST IN:
The bazillion strong mega flock of Canadian Snow Geese is just leaving the Lewes Delaware Bird Preserve in their continuing migration north to the Canadian tundra. Now its your season to watch em
@farmerman,
Blimey!
And there was me thinking it was exciting seeing half a dozen fly over the canal this morning.
