Canadianisms - Unique Words & Expressions

[countryboy]

One of my kids used to use that term about 20 years ago. I took it to mean cool or fashionably acceptable. In the genation previous I believe the term was "mint" and in the generation before that "keen".

Those two I know, but I must be "uncool" to have missed the one mentioned by Goober. If I were an academic, I'd probably use the word "superlative." :lol: Of course I'm not, so basic terms like "sh!t-hot" work for me. :lol::lol:

 

[#juan]

How about:"If my dog had a face like his, I would shave it's a$$ and walk it backwards".

 

[JLM]

How about:"If my dog had a face like his, I would shave it's a$$ and walk it backwards".

Or "If I had a car like that I'd trade it for a horse and shoot the horse" (Heard that one in 100 Mile House about 1968).

 

[countryboy]

Not sure if this one was mentioned here before, but here it goes...

(With regard to a female with a big butt)...Following her down the street is like watching two pigs fighting in a gunny sack.

(Same reference)...Her a$$ is two axe handles wide.

And finally, with regard to a girl with buck teeth:
She could eat an apple through a picket fence.

 

[JLM]

Not sure if this one was mentioned here before, but here it goes...

(With regard to a female with a big butt)...Following her down the street is like watching two pigs fighting in a gunny sack.

(Same reference)...Her a$$ is two axe handles wide.

And finally, with regard to a girl with buck teeth:
She could eat an apple through a picket fence.

I heard "eat corn on the cob through a picket fence".

 

[countryboy]

I heard "eat corn on the cob through a picket fence".

Or "pick flysh!t off a light bulb with her teeth."

 

[JLM]

Or "pick flysh!t off a light bulb with her teeth."

Another one- "the smell was bad enough to knock a maggot off a gut wagon".

 

[countryboy]

Another one- "the smell was bad enough to knock a maggot off a gut wagon".

I'm so hungry I could eat the a$$ off a skunk, raw.

 

[JLM]

Anyone heard of a "Molly Hogan"? Hint- think logging.

 

[JLM]

Another term (a little indelicate perhaps) is the C**t splice. (Loggers don't get hung up on semantics)

 

[Goober]

One of my kids used to use that term about 20 years ago. I took it to mean cool or fashionably acceptable. In the genation previous I believe the term was "mint" and in the generation before that "keen".

JLM

Down East it meant a little grumpy, argumentative, etc

 

[JLM]

JLM

Down East it meant a little grumpy, argumentative, etc

Oh OK- that would be the eastern version of "snarly".

 

[countryboy]

I'm still trying to figure out that logging splice term...I mean, I know the words, but I'm wondering what it refers to (didn't do much loggin' on the prairies!)

 

[YukonJack]

Canadian word, not known anywhere in the English-speaking world:

Toque: head-gear like a knit condom.

 

[L Gilbert]

I'm still trying to figure out that logging splice term...I mean, I know the words, but I'm wondering what it refers to (didn't do much loggin' on the prairies!)

AKA the "eye splice" originally began as the "cut splice", I think. It's an imagery thing probably born in some juvenile minds of loggers or people that use cable splicing.

 

[Goober]

Oh OK- that would be the eastern version of "snarly".

Nope - we had snarly - Thing is a word means something one place and has a completetly different meaning somewheres else.

Thats all.

 

[L Gilbert]

"Toque" originated in France in the 15th century as "a knitted, round hat" similar to the cloche hat.
Canadianism, my a$$.

 

[Goober]

A face that would stop a truck.

 

[JLM]

AKA the "eye splice" originally began as the "cut splice", I think. It's an imagery thing probably born in some juvenile minds of loggers or people that use cable splicing.

Rope splicing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :lol::lol::lol:

 

[countryboy]

Rope splicing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :lol::lol::lol:

Well, according to that link, "cut" splice was apparently not the original name. I can see why it got changed somewhere along the line... :lol: Thanks for the clarification!

- C*ntryboy