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Here are some terms used in construction

Turfed or skidded -- fired

In and out -- travel time paid or airfare etc.

Blackballed --- useless employee no one will hire

Ringer -- full paycheck

Bird dogger --- foreman that watchs workers closely

Lolly gagging --- wasteing time

Trick knee --- worker spends more time on compensation than working

Compo -- workers compensation

Sub -- living allowance (short for subsistance)

Traveler --- out of province worker

Running shoe job -- fast paced job

blew one -- missed a shift


Eg. I was thinking of going to work up North what is a ringer worth with an in and out

   

A few Canadian Navy terms

Oggie - Ocean

Pusser as a box lunch - very navy or military

Hose bosn - fireman

Ping bosn - sonarman

Deck ape - bosn

Dempster Dumpster - garbage dumpster

Dhobie dust - Laundry soap

Barrack Stantion - sailors who don't sail

   

I never heard of a ringer untill I started working with Newfies.

It's been a coons age.

   

gonch - underwear
kangaroo jacket - hoodie
gronk - joe boy, beginner, assistant
nate(s) - Native(s)
how lots - a lot of
mickey - is a 1/2 bottle, 375 mls, Americans I know call "flasks" mickeys
frostbacks - Canadians who sneak into the States to find work.
hose monster, hose beast, hose pig - slut, usually a particularly ugly one.
hoolie - a joint
hoohoo - outhouse
Saluting The Queen - morning pee, with a hard-on
pepsi - stupid person, empty from the neck up
onnee-eye - out of work
mulroonie - foreign coin size of loonie or toonie

   

My dad used to refer to women who served as Pusser piggies. Some other slang I remember hearing on ship:

skating: fucking the dog
blade: backstabber
scran bag: disorderly
flatcocks: firecontrolmen

Regular slang

Housewrecker: a major league house party - usually the parents were on holidays.
You're toast/It's toast: seriously fukt
Bookburner: Big party at the end of the school year, usually too far into the bush for the cops to walk and bust it up.

   

New Canadian slang that is credited to the trailer park boys.

Shit show-a conflab or cluster fuck
Shit storm-what happens before a cluster.
Shit blizzard-what happens before a shit storm.
The winds of shit-the smell before a shit storm

Cluster has to be my favourite.

   

All those are terms we still use.

Also:

Bag o' laundrey/bag o' toys - someone looks untidy

Common dogfuck (CDF) - common sense

Pisser - party

Hairy bag - a sailor

   

Line up

   

Wisconsin is known to have its slang...

First known one- Eh?
Yes many people do say it, my family completely, along with many other people in Wisconsin. It is only really heard in small towns away from the cities. And the further north you go, all the way into Canada, the more you hear it.

Stop and Go Light- A Wisconsin word simply for "traffic lights"

Bubblers- No not a bong, but a water fountain or drinking fountain

dat- word for "that"

*We dont call it POP...its "soda"

Why don't you come with?

cheesehead- a word for a fan of the wisconsin green bay packers (football team)

   

I like "road rockets"!

   

We call the streaky Bacon Side Pork here in Alberta

   

Here's one for all you who've lived on base
Cannex-Store, "Lets go to the Cannex for a slurpie!"

Mint-New or in great shape, also cool. "Man that watch is Mint"

Fuckko- A not so nice person, "That guys a Fuckko"

Chochie- Loser, " That guy's a Chochie"

Don't forget Loonie and Twonie

Single-1 smoke bought from a store (Usually an Arab run Mom and Pop shop)

The Rock-Newfoundland not the Actor/ex wrestler

Boss-Cool

Spud-Tater, I don't think the Yankee's use this one?

   

Chauffer le char: Quebec French for drive the car. Literally "warm up the chariot"

   

Scrote: really old person (wrinkly as a scrotum)

   

   

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