Jeez
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Up we'd go, up those stairs, over all those vats of cyanide? Holy Jeepers! |
Jeez |
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But even years ago we're on the farm, we sold heifers to ah some young fellows down ah- oh, just out of London ah- oh, jeepers! That makes me mad- |
Jeez |
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He came in and he hit her, and heard the fans go, "Oh!" And I thought "Oh jeepers." And she got up and she skated away. So I thought, "Okay she's- she's al-- she's alright." And it's just kind of, it was just a bur-- a dirty-hit. But I guess two guys came in with their hands out. |
Jeez |
We- it was a two-day-tournament. We lost her for the next day, and we heard what was going on. We were like "Oh jeepers, poor kid eh?" 'Cause she's only, she's- well actually she's probably fifteen. I always think of her as being terribly young. I think she's fourteen, and she should be fifteen this year. |
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(laughs) Um yeah yeah it was the girls um jeepers about ten years to fifteen years younger than- oh I can't remember (inc) is. Anyway about fourteen years later they finally allowed girls in minor hockey. The girls fourteen years younger than me I should say. |
Jeez |
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And ah- so anyway, I remember this one fellow, his name was Robin-Harris and he said, "Jeepers, Kylie," he said, "If I known you th-- that close I'd had a basket ready in the back." |
Jeez |
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Speaker: Fa-- my older f-- fe-- my- my great-great-grandfather helped build that school out there. They were masons and they come from Scotland. Interviewer: Do you know whereabouts in Scotland they came from? Speaker: Jeepers, I don't know much a-- Interviewer: But somewhere in Scotland. Speaker: Yeah they come from Scotl-- they come from Edinburgh I-think, from Edinburgh directly here, but- |
Jeez |
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Interviewer: Okay. And when did your family um immigrate to this part of the world? Speaker 09: Oh jeepers. Well, they immigrated- I think I'm really a Scottish heritage. |
Jeez |
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Interviewer: What was it like in the winter when you had a really big storm? Speaker: Then people didn't go. Interviewer: Oh. How high did the snow get? Speaker: Oh jeepers. I don't know how high it would've been. |
Jeez |
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Interviewer: She- I was like, "You've been in a freezer dealing with baby milk for far too long." (laughs) Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker: Oh, jeepers. Speaker 2: That would be hard. |
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Interviewer: ... the rain yesterday and I swear to God in- it was like people were dumping buckets. For like five minutes I was on the road and it was just like soaked through. All my- and I was- yeah, I'm protecting this like a child. It's like- (laughs) Speaker 2: (laughs) Speaker: Oh jeepers. |
Jeez |
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Okay, to take me back to- as far as I can remember- jeepers, I don't think I can remember anything earlier than when I was four or five years old. Some people can but I sure can't. |
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And when I look back at my home life when I was a little kid, I think of- I think now how lucky I was and, you-know, to- to some of the, ah, grief that goes on in today's living. And jeepers, my dad and mother, I can't believe now how smart they were. I didn't think that then. |
Jeez |
small, insignificant, inferior
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It's a- it's a half an hour straight drive but because you have to go down every jerkwater road to catch all these other little kids that picked up the bus and… |
Small, remote rural settlements |
N/A
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Speaker: Like jibbing and wheeling. Like what is that? I don't know what that means. Interviewer 1: Wait, what was the first one? Speaker: Jibbing. Interviewer 1: What's- I don't even know what that means. Speaker: It's like going on a skidoo ride. Interviewer 2: What? Speaker: It's jib-- yeah, I-don't-know. |
Going on a skidoo |
to be tired out, exhausted; so, to be ‘done for’, devitalized. Also actively: to break, destroy, ruin.
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With a broken wrist. So then that kind-of jiggered me up so- two hours of chores before you go to the work and two hours to come back and I can't do nothing. |
shook/messed |
To sing or play as a jig, or in the style of a jig
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Interviewer: What were you doing? Speaker: Jigging around at everything. Some day hashing, some day helping the man with the flour, some days maybe with the boy with a load of flour. Just do whatever had to be done. |
Help |
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Liv-- Lived there um, say, four years then separated ah and there 's some jigging around in there, but essentially came here in nineteen-sixty-seven. |
Help |
N/A
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With my friends? Um depends we usually for the most part just go to play pool or jitz or just go out and eat wherever McDonald 's um I go out with my friends sometimes we just drive around hit-the-mall um just waste time I guess. |
Foosball |
To make sense; to fit in.
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Six months I was a, a, full-fledged hairstylist, I said, "This is not what I wanna do," you-know like, I enjoyed washing people's hair and styling and stuff-like-that and um, but to be totally responsible for someone else 's ah you-know image, I- it didn 't jive with me anymore. So um, let 's see um. |
To make sense |