To behave in an aimless or desultory way (with); to act with no definite purpose or result; to act frivolously or teasingly.
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No, that's true, yeah that's true. But I can't see myself mucking around the plumbing department, but anyway um she's ah she's ah well actually the situation right now. |
To behave in an aimless or desultory way (with); to act with no definite purpose or result; to act frivolously or teasingly. |
A self-important person
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And Edgar, her father, was- I can 't remember his title, but anyway he was a high muckety-muck down at Simpsons. It was an adventure the odd Saturday we got to go and shop in Simpsons! Downtown! |
Managerial position; big boss man |
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So what we'll do in the spring, what we call a mud-run because, ah, the trails are- everything is starting to melt and and it's soft and it's mud so we'll, um, use the, ah, four-wheelers or A-T-Vs, people call them different things, and a group of us will go out there for a night and, ah, cook some food, have some drinks and come back the next day. And then we'll do the same thing, ah, in the fall to see the fall colours and, ah, um, do that experience again. |
a spring/autumn four-wheeler trek and party |
A hornless cow. Also more generally: any cow.
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Interviewer: What do you call a- a cow that ah- that doesn't have any horns? Speaker: Mulio, a muley cow. |
A hornless cow. |
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Interviewer: Um, what did they used to call the ah- a cow that didn't have any horns? Speaker: Muley (laughs). Muley (laughs). |
A hornless cow. |
muley-cow
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Interviewer: Mm-hm. Your- your cows had ah horns? Speaker: Oh yes. They had big long horns. Interviewer: What do you call a- a cow that ah- that doesn't have any horns? Speaker: Mulio, a muley cow. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Ah a mule- there's lots of cows born witho- without horns altogether even. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And ah but ah our cattle was Ayreshires and- and Durhams, and Holsteins, they all had the horns, great big horns. |
muley-cow |
(Mushy only) Sentimental, insipidly romantic.
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Now (laughs), I can't remember- I- I tend to get mushy-gushy I guess. |
Emotional |
With possessive: a person's fault; responsibility for a mistake, blunder, etc. Originally and chiefly in my bad (used mainly as int.).
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Speaker: So Gerrard, what's up? Speaker 2: Jared. Speaker: Jared my bad. |
"Whoops, sorry!" |
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Speaker: Or, the way she calls like, the way we speak, colloquial. So, like, okay, whatever! Like that, I just said "Whatever." Interviewer: All- right. So "whatever's" one of them? ... What else? Speaker: It's not that common, but, uh, like, if you do bad you say, "My bad." Something like that. Or, if uh... if something's like, cool or something like that, you say like, "That's intense." And, if something's like, like it's got like, old style or something like s-- that, you say, "That's old-school," or "That's ghetto." |
"Whoops, sorry!" |
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Speaker: The first thing I wanted to be was a nurse, or a- a judge. Nurse, judge, a dance teacher, teacher or hairdresser. Interviewer: Really? Which one- which one do you want to most, or right now? Speaker: The one that I want to be- or a lawyer, my bad. Interviewer: Or a lawyer. Speaker: Um, the really one I want to be the most is, a lawyer, or a nurse. And if I can't be a nurse, I'll be a lawyer, and if I can't be a lawyer, I'll be a hairdresser. |
"Whoops, sorry!" |
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Interviewer: No it's not. Speaker: Yes it is. Interviewer: No it's not. Speaker: Yes it is. Interviewer: Wilson. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: See those two lines. ... Those are the batteries. Speaker: Whoops. Sorry. Interviewer: That's okay. Speaker: Okay, it was my bad, okay? Interviewer: Um. Speaker: Yes. |
"Whoops, sorry!" |
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I ended up pissing in the ticket booth all hammered without noticing it. ... I was like- I was like, "What's this thing?" I walk in it. "Oh well, I'm going to the bathroom here." Then I found out later it's the ticket booth. I was like "My bad." |
"Whoops, sorry!" |
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Interviewer: How do you even make a toga? Just take out a blanket? Speaker: Yeah, you just take a- yeah, like a white sheet and just put it around you. That's what makes it fun. ... Yeah, well, see a girl (inc), "Oh shit, my bad, I'm sorry I stepped on your toga." Interviewer: (laughs) What was it like going to Sudbury? |
"Whoops, sorry!" |
(Naff only) Unfashionable, vulgar; lacking in style, inept; worthless, faulty.
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Interviewer: What would you call the horse on the left, if you were driving a team? Speaker: Ah, that'd be the nye-horse. Interviewer: And the one on the right? Speaker: Naff-horse. |
A horse on the right in a horse team. |
Of a person or group of people: inclined to weak sentimentality, affectedly dainty; lacking vigour or drive; effeminate in expression or behaviour. Also: characteristic of or suited to such a person.
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Oh yeah. I was at a meeting- police meeting the other night, and I was telling the police, I said "You-know we now live in a namby-pamby sola-- society" uh, nowadays the police are afraid to rough anybody up, you-know and... |
Weak and indecisive |
A narrow stretch of wood, pasture, ice, etc. Now usually in neck of the woods: a settlement in wooded country, or a small or remotely situated community; (hence more generally) a district, neighbourhood, or region. in this neck of the woods: in this vicinity, around here (also used elliptically). Formerly also †neck of timber.
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Interviewer: Yeah like what were your traditions at Christmas? Speaker: Oh it just went from like Christmas-Eve it was just going from neighbour-to-neighbour-to-neighbour mostly over at Jack's- Jack's neck-of-the-woods. |
General area |
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Interviewer: Sure. Did you- do you have any concerts that you went to in Toronto that stick out in your mind? Speaker: God. I could show you my- I 'll just show you this briefly. Interviewer: Sure. (...) Speaker: This really is nothing. I have a box even bigger than this, because literally, by the time- at the age of eleven, I started going to concerts. So literally, by the time I was sixteen, I 'd probably already been to a hundred of them. And now in my life, I 've probably been to like three-hundred of them. Interviewer: That 's great. Speaker: And I used to- just basically went to everything. Well, there 's from your neck- of-the-woods. Basically went- oh there 's from your neck of the woods too. |
General area |
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Speaker: Della-Kildare. Ah, where does she live? Della-Kildare. Interviewer: Ah, I'm not sure. I'm not the one going to- and Joe be- I'm not the one who's going to be interviewing her. Speaker: Oh, you're not in the- she's the Maberly bunch anyway, I can tell you that. Interviewer: Yeah, she- okay, yes, the Tessler's up there, Joe Bookman--, and- Speaker: Tessler in Maberly- or- up- up in that neck of the woods, anyway. |
General area |
Speaker: Hadrian-Wall. That's it. In that neck of the woods was like a hole-in-the-wall, and they'd go over to England or Scotland, and steal, and then they'd run back- Interviewer: To the other side. Speaker: To this hole in the wall! It was just an- ah- a narrow area between Scotland and England. |
General area |
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Speaker: But when they got moved over in by Robertson's-Lake the farming area for some reason or other was not maybe as good? Speaker: Oh, oh. Speaker: Wherever they had set up but she said there was some lame days in that neck of the woods. |
General area |