01-23-2004, 07:51 PM
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making it rain
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I've never heard of these:
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1. pogey: EI (Employment insurance). Money provided by the government for not working.
4. beer parlour: Like an ice cream parlour, but for Canadians.
6. muskeg: Boggy swampland.
15. Stanfields: Men's underwear, especially Grandpa-style, white cotton ones with a big elastic waistband and a large superfluous flap in the front and back. Also known as "tighty whiteys".
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And these I didn't know were Canadianisms... Learn something every day.
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2. mickey: A small bottle of booze (325 ml.) (A Texas mickey, on the other hand, is a ridiculously big bottle of booze, which, despite the name, is still a Canadianism through and through.)
5. skidoo: Self-propelled decapitation unit for teenagers, (Snow-Mobiles)
7. duplex: A single building divided in half with two sets of inhabitants, each trying to pretend the other doesn't exist while at the same time managing to drive each other crazy; metaphor for Canada's french and english.
11. snuck: To have sneaked; to move, past tense, in a sneaky manner; non-restrictive extended semi-gerundial form of "did sneak." (We think.)
12. ghost car: An unmarked police car, easily identifiable by its inconspicuousness.
13. impaired: A charge of drunk driving. Used both as a noun and as an adjective (the alternative adjectival from "impaired" being "pissed to the gills").
14. S.O.L.: Shit outta luck; in an unfortunate predicament.
18. shit disturber: (See Quebec) a troublemaker or provocateur. According to Katherine Barber, editor in Chief of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, "shit disturber" is a distinctly Canadian term. (Just remember that Western Canada is chippy and Quebec is a shit disturber, and you will do fine.)
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