"yer getting on me nerves" "g'way b'ye!" "Nort Tidney" "Up-da-avenues" "Brown Street Country Club" "Yeers-yer-car?" "D'ay don't know da issues Norris!" "Greeners" "Jeet?" "No, jou?" No, did you? "Twirly teet!" "Scuttlebutt" "da red row" "da barracks" "Rocket" "S'anyways" "da Mines" "Little Italy" "The Jungle" "The back beach" "Bog Row" "da heaps" Old coal heaps between Main Street and "lets go da mall" "Like fun" "Cossie's Woods" "Mack's Corner" "The Half-Way Road" "Florence Corner" "Yer gonna drive me ta drink!" You are driving me nuts "shootin' the drag" "the idiot parade" "Sutherland's corner" "You from away?" "out da tank" "Barton Street" "Yeah, me arse!" "The Order" "ya goin out to the point?" "Hiking Day" "right edofer"
really drunk "you wanna puck in da mout ' b'ye?"
do you want to be punched in the mouth? "Nails Woods"
Neil's Woods behind Immaculate Conception Church "Machine Shop"
General ward in the old Harbourview Hospital "She thinks shes it" "up town" "I LAUGHED MY ARSE OFF" "Ya hairy horare" "com'er" "waz going on b'ye?" "Gawd love' em!" "S'goinon?" the proper response
"Nuttin" "........listen Norris deres allegations been made and I wants ta know who dee alligator is!!" "I'm gonna redden yer arse!" "I'm gonna ring yer neck!" "gotta make yer fadders can!" "Pit socks" "Go pound sand up yer arse!" "Gimi a rock, hold me jacket and I'll split ya wide open" "Frig-off" "I'll put the boots to ya" I'll beat you up "What's yer fadder's name?"
Who's your father? (I probably know him) "G'waywitcha" "Ya don't say!" "Goin' out da Bullies" "I'm goin' up da Maple" "Boo Smith" "Nadaladlenden" "All Dalled Up" "Out runnin' the roads" "The Diner" "Them Ocean Streeters are always pickin for fights." "Don't you be over there with them Ocean Streeters" "Them Ocean Streeters all run in packs" "Were you raised by a pack of wolves?" "BUN OF BREAD" Loaf of Bread "LOOSE CIGARETTE'S OPEN PACK & SELL YOU 1 OR 2" "In Ontario they call it welfare---------down east it's cash for" life. "I'm from the Pier dear & I'm from the bay b'ye." "Lard tunderin jesis!" "Down by the bay b'ye!" "I'm not a b'ye, I'm a girl!" "oice clampers" "All teet and fungus" "(Biff, chuck, whiff) me the ball b'ye!" "She moved to Halifax". "He's from Toronto"
He's from anywhere in Ontario. "Pancake Day!" "What a rig" "Transfer Truck" "(Blank) not fit!"
Blank can be an object like
"That bike's not fit!" or a person
"She's not fit!" Didja get your picture with the dead seal down are beach? "Rubberneckin" Cape Bretoners are the only people who go 'down' North! "Judas Priest!" We often had "hash" for supper. FYI: before Dave's and Millie's it was Greg's School Dairy. (Not sure on this one: Which side of the tracks you from?) Summer officially started in Sydney Mines when the chip wagon opened. Actually before it was Millie's it was Dave's and before Dave's it was Frank's and before Franks it was Gregs. Here is a quote I heard wil ice fishing with the grandfather and his pit buddy while the ice was still too tin. " So help me Gawd if you falls true dat hice and I has to miss a qualifien shift to barry ya, I'll kill ya." "Going down the shore to jump clampers after school?" "save me the core" "save me a puff will ya - or - save me your butt." "If I see's that guy in town I'm gonna puck his teeth down his throat." "Here.. put some of this on to it." "I Smoked Him In The Mout" "We're gonna take a little spin up to Lordways" L'Ardoise "If ya had a little boat, you were going up the gut or down the gut." "Duff" "Splint" "Where ya goin'?
Ta daw show,wanna come?" "Ok buddy ,nice shooting da breeze witcha!" "get your runner on an catch the bus" Hurry up or you'll miss the bus. "nock your gumpers out" "Yer gonna look awfully friggin' stupid trying to pick up all yer teeth with two broken arms" "Lazy Town"
former name of Sydney Mines "the diner boyz" "R'Yah goin ta da time ur what bye!" "We're goin' down north to Ingonish" "Duck, dere's the Gannon Roaders!" "Same me y'er butt" "What a riot!" "Croak" (verb): To desire greatly "Pill Hill" "m'ere bye" "yer done after school" And in Sydney Mines, nothing good EVER comes after the phrase
"Oh, THAT one......" "yup, were gonna shoot the drag and cut up Fraser" "Go way bye! I told ya turdy times!!!"
Get out of here, I told you that thirty times. "Sa'me me your step on" "ol` smelt" "How she Makin er`?" "All the doins onto er`" "Chirst on a cracker" "don't tell me no never o mine" "can ya get that fur'me" "h" (pronounced haych)
We say it one way, "gonna av'nother"
"shes a'bute" "The sluge ponds" "Says a hall of your says a hall" "Gizza shot up the road b'ye" "I'll take a shot down later on" I'll come by at a later time "Gizza shot a yer pap" May I have a sip of your soft drink? "Scanless"
That's just awful "the oll doll and the oll man" "Scab me a ......" "I'll pound da face off ya!" "Here's him" "Here's her" "Here's me" When telling a story, instead of saying 'I said' 'He said' and 'She said', we say 'Here's him', 'Here's her' and 'Here's me'. Example: "So here's him, let's shoot the drag. "slicker than a snot on a roosters lips"
Question:"Wanna go to Montys?"
Reply:"I have to get rid of the kids first." "BILL JEROE DID IT"
EXPRESSION FROM THE OLD DAYS,AT SYDNEY MINES; SAID TO US BY FATHER,
TOMMY DOLHANTY, ANYTHING OFF-KILTER TAKING PLACE If you were going to the dance say back at Birches Dancehall, you would ask your buddy if he was going to the "scoosh" .Or if someone told you so and so was getting married.you would ask them if they were having a "scoosh".or jees bye, that was some"scoosh" they had last nite.at St Mary's hall. (means a dance).
"You are so cheap you wouldn't pay a nickel to see a hot dog bark!" "HIT WITH A UGLY STICK"
"SHES GOT A FACE LIKE A BURNT BOOT"
"GOWAY WITH YOUR BAD HEAD"
"HOWS IT HANGIN"
"BELOW THE TRACKS"
"BITE ME"
"IF DA HORN DONT WORK,WATCH FOR DA FINGER"
"A FACE LIKE A CAN OF WORMS"
"DONT TAKE ANY WOODEN NICKLES"
"DONT PEE IN THE WIND"
"DONT EAT YELLOW SNOW" "I'm gonna beat you like a red-headed stepchild." "Nicky Nicky Nine Doors" "How's the honda runnin'?"
"Little Italy" middle of leggato street "Butterscotch Palace" "I'm so hungry I could eat the arse end off a skunk from Glace Bay" "THE POLE" ''Rubber head''
idiot
''Bubble head''
a floorwalker up da mall
''meetcha at maxes corner''
''C'mon down Archies''
Q:'' where's he at??
A:''Up da poolhall''
'' the wolfpac''
''the wolverines''
''giveidduem''
meaning give it to him or beat someone up If ya had a real nice boat or car.you would say "she's a pisscutter."or "what a pisscutter". Going to the "Time" at 9pm |
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