English words for 'Indicates that the speaker is Canadian.'
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noun
- (Canada, informal) An English-speaking Quebecer.
- An anglo concertina.
- (Southwestern US, informal, sometimes offensive) A North American, especially a white one (regardless of actual ethnicity), whose native language is English (as opposed to Americans who have another native language).
- (Australia, informal) An Anglo-Australian (as opposed to Australians of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern background)
- An English person or person of English ancestry.
- (nonstandard) A British person or person of British ancestry.
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- (informal) The English language (spoken or written) as used in Canada; Canadian English.
- A suburb of the City of Ballarat, central western Victoria, Australia.
- A town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.
- A city, the county seat of Hemphill County, Texas, situated on the Canadian River.
- The Canadian River, a river in New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and Oklahoma in the United States, which is a tributary of the Arkansas River.
noun
- (Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec.
- (music) The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.
- The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
- (rail transport) The part of a railroad overhead wire used to redirect a trolley pole from one wire to another at switches.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) A French person.
- A device used to secure stems in a floral arrangement, also called a flower frog or kenzan.
- (politics, slang, derogatory, Malaysia) Defector: politician who switches to a different political party.
- An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button, toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.
- (fishing) A type of fishing lure that resembles a frog.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Synonym of road; clipping of less common frog and toad.
- Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
- (rail transport) The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).
- An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
- A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
- a decorative loop of braid or cord
- a person of French descent
- any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
verb
- (ambitransitive, slang, mildly vulgar) To have sex with; fuck.
- (intransitive) To lie sprawled out like a frog; sploot.
- To hunt or trap frogs.
- (transitive, biology) To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.
- (ambitransitive) To unravel part of (a knitted garment), either to correct a mistake or to reclaim the thread or yarn.
- (transitive, cooking) To spatchcock (a chicken).
- To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs.
- hunt frogs for food
noun
- (slang, derogatory) A Canadian.
- (Canada, slang) A person (especially a farmer) who siphons gasoline out of a vehicle or piece of equipment.
- (Canada, slang) A clumsy, boorish person, especially an over-eating, beer-drinking man, or a man prone to petty infractions such as taking other people's food or drinks.
- One who operates a hose, e.g. a fire hose or a garden hose.
- (Canada, slang) A person who hoses down a lake after a game of hockey, to return it to a smooth state.
- (slang) One that hoses, i.e. hurts (someone) badly.
name
- (Canada) French speakers in Canada, collectively (often francophonie).
- The International Organization of the Francophonie, an organization of countries having French as an official, first, or important language (in Canada, often the Francophonie or la Francophonie).
- French speakers, collectively; the French-speaking world.
noun
- (Canada) A person whose mother tongue is neither English, French, nor (sometimes) an indigenous language.
- A person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority.
- (phonology) Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.
- (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
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name
- The Ottawa language (may be considered a dialect of Ojibwe).
- An Algonquian people closely related to the Ojibwe.
- A river flowing southeast between Ontario and Quebec, Canada into the St. Lawrence River.
- A suburb of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
- A village and former commune of Ivory Coast.
- A town and unincorporated community in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
- A village, the county seat of Putnam County, Ohio.
- A city, the county seat of LaSalle County, Illinois.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Le Sueur County, Minnesota.
- A city, the county seat of Franklin County, Kansas.
- (by synecdoche, metonymic) The federal government of Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Ottawa County, Oklahoma.
- Some other townships, listed under Ottawa Township.
- A city in Ontario, Canada; the capital city of Canada.
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- Initialism of Canadian English (also sometimes colloquially called "Canadian" or even "Canajan").
- Abbreviation of Ceará: a state of Brazil.
- Initialism of Common Era, Current Era, or Christian Era. Equivalent of AD. Like other era initialisms, often written in small caps.
- Initialism of Church of England. More commonly, C of E. Used in the names of church schools in England.
- (education) Initialism of Common Entrance.
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- (Canada, US, colloquial) A lumberjack.
- (slang, baseball) A home run.
- (US) A jackrabbit.
- (card games, originally colloquial) The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
- (glassblowing) a tool used in manual production of glass objects (like bottles or wine glasses).
- (countable, now chiefly US) A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
- (slang, chiefly US) Money, cash.
- (colloquial) A sailor.
- Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
- A pike, especially when young.
- The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.
- (India, historical, slang) A sepoy.
- (chiefly US) A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
- (slang) A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
- (apparently does not occur standalone for the genus per se) Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.
- A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
- (games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
- (slang, euphemistic) Nothing, not anything, jack shit.
- Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
- (US) A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
- A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
- A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
- A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
- (colloquial) Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
- (electronics) A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
- (chiefly capitalized) A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
- (Canada, US) A strong alcoholic liquor, especially home-distilled or illicit.
- (colloquial) Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
- (bowls) A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
- (nautical) A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
- Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
- Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
- (slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
- The related tree Mangifera caesia.
- (now historical, regional) A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
- A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
- (cricket, slang) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
- game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks
- a small worthless amount
- small flag indicating a ship's nationality
- male donkey
- any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas
- a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling
- tool for exerting pressure or lifting
- immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
- an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug
- someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
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verb
- (colloquial, vulgar) To jack off, to masturbate.
- (transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
- (intransitive or transitive, informal) To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
- (Memphis African-American slang) To fight.
- (transitive) To raise or increase.
- (intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
- (transitive, colloquial) To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).
- (transitive) To physically raise using a jack.
- To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.
- hunt with a jacklight
- lift with a special device
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adj
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- (Canada) To speak rapid insulting comical banter back and forth; to bicker or argue.
- (intransitive) To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets; to chitter; to twitter.
- (intransitive) To speak in a high-pitched staccato.
- (transitive, radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) To modify (a pulse of signal) so that it sweeps through a band of frequencies throughout its duration.
- sing in modulation
- make high-pitched sounds
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noun
- (Canada, US) A white person.
- (linguistics) A group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region.
- A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.
- (alcoholic beverages, humorous) Synonym of White Russian (“a cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, milk, and vodka”).
- a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere
- a person of European descent with a light-skinned or pale complexion
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- (Canada, US, informal, sometimes derogatory) A Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent.
- (ice hockey) A member of the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.
- (aviation, military, historical) The Avro Canada CF-100 fighter-interceptor aircraft, in use between 1952 and 1981.
- (rare) A thing from Canada.
- (skiing) Chiefly as Crazy Canuck: a member of the Canadian alpine ski team.
- informal term for Canadians in general and French Canadians in particular
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- (chiefly Canada) An interjection used to ascertain the continued attention of someone addressed by the speaker.
- An interjection expressing disapproval.
- (MLE, MTE, regional African-American Vernacular, Chicano) an attention grabber
- In isolation, a request for repetition or clarification of what has just been said.
- (informal, Internet slang) A greeting between friends (typically male) or display of approval.
- (Singlish, usually impolite) Hey, oi; said to get someone's attention.
- In isolation, expressing surprise or confusion
- (with rising pitch) Huh?; expresses confusion.
- (Philippines) Expressing apprehension following or preceding a reasoning or excuse; uh.
- (informal, chiefly Canada, Upper Midwestern US, New Zealand, Australia, UK, Ireland, South Africa, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Commonwealth) Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said.
- Expressing apathy or lack of enthusiasm; meh.
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noun
- (Canada, informal) An English-speaking Quebecer.
- An anglo concertina.
- (Southwestern US, informal, sometimes offensive) A North American, especially a white one (regardless of actual ethnicity), whose native language is English (as opposed to Americans who have another native language).
- (Australia, informal) An Anglo-Australian (as opposed to Australians of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern background)
- An English person or person of English ancestry.
- (nonstandard) A British person or person of British ancestry.
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adj
name
- (informal) The English language (spoken or written) as used in Canada; Canadian English.
- A suburb of the City of Ballarat, central western Victoria, Australia.
- A town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.
- A city, the county seat of Hemphill County, Texas, situated on the Canadian River.
- The Canadian River, a river in New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and Oklahoma in the United States, which is a tributary of the Arkansas River.
noun
- (Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec.
- (music) The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.
- The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
- (rail transport) The part of a railroad overhead wire used to redirect a trolley pole from one wire to another at switches.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) A French person.
- A device used to secure stems in a floral arrangement, also called a flower frog or kenzan.
- (politics, slang, derogatory, Malaysia) Defector: politician who switches to a different political party.
- An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button, toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.
- (fishing) A type of fishing lure that resembles a frog.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Synonym of road; clipping of less common frog and toad.
- Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
- (rail transport) The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).
- An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
- A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
- a decorative loop of braid or cord
- a person of French descent
- any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
verb
- (ambitransitive, slang, mildly vulgar) To have sex with; fuck.
- (intransitive) To lie sprawled out like a frog; sploot.
- To hunt or trap frogs.
- (transitive, biology) To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.
- (ambitransitive) To unravel part of (a knitted garment), either to correct a mistake or to reclaim the thread or yarn.
- (transitive, cooking) To spatchcock (a chicken).
- To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs.
- hunt frogs for food
noun
- (slang, derogatory) A Canadian.
- (Canada, slang) A person (especially a farmer) who siphons gasoline out of a vehicle or piece of equipment.
- (Canada, slang) A clumsy, boorish person, especially an over-eating, beer-drinking man, or a man prone to petty infractions such as taking other people's food or drinks.
- One who operates a hose, e.g. a fire hose or a garden hose.
- (Canada, slang) A person who hoses down a lake after a game of hockey, to return it to a smooth state.
- (slang) One that hoses, i.e. hurts (someone) badly.
noun
- (Canada) A person whose mother tongue is neither English, French, nor (sometimes) an indigenous language.
- A person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority.
- (phonology) Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.
- (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
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name
- The Ottawa language (may be considered a dialect of Ojibwe).
- An Algonquian people closely related to the Ojibwe.
- A river flowing southeast between Ontario and Quebec, Canada into the St. Lawrence River.
- A suburb of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
- A village and former commune of Ivory Coast.
- A town and unincorporated community in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
- A village, the county seat of Putnam County, Ohio.
- A city, the county seat of LaSalle County, Illinois.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Le Sueur County, Minnesota.
- A city, the county seat of Franklin County, Kansas.
- (by synecdoche, metonymic) The federal government of Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Ottawa County, Oklahoma.
- Some other townships, listed under Ottawa Township.
- A city in Ontario, Canada; the capital city of Canada.
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noun
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A lumberjack.
- (slang, baseball) A home run.
- (US) A jackrabbit.
- (card games, originally colloquial) The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
- (glassblowing) a tool used in manual production of glass objects (like bottles or wine glasses).
- (countable, now chiefly US) A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
- (slang, chiefly US) Money, cash.
- (colloquial) A sailor.
- Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
- A pike, especially when young.
- The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.
- (India, historical, slang) A sepoy.
- (chiefly US) A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
- (slang) A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
- (apparently does not occur standalone for the genus per se) Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.
- A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
- (games) A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
- (slang, euphemistic) Nothing, not anything, jack shit.
- Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
- (US) A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
- A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
- A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
- A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
- (colloquial) Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
- (electronics) A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
- (chiefly capitalized) A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
- (Canada, US) A strong alcoholic liquor, especially home-distilled or illicit.
- (colloquial) Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
- (bowls) A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
- (nautical) A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
- Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
- Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
- (slang, Appalachians) A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
- The related tree Mangifera caesia.
- (now historical, regional) A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
- A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
- (cricket, slang) The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
- game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks
- a small worthless amount
- small flag indicating a ship's nationality
- male donkey
- any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas
- a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling
- tool for exerting pressure or lifting
- immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
- an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug
- someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
adj
verb
- (colloquial, vulgar) To jack off, to masturbate.
- (transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
- (intransitive or transitive, informal) To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
- (Memphis African-American slang) To fight.
- (transitive) To raise or increase.
- (intransitive) To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
- (transitive, colloquial) To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).
- (transitive) To physically raise using a jack.
- To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.
- hunt with a jacklight
- lift with a special device
noun
adj
noun
- (Canada, US) A white person.
- (linguistics) A group of languages spoken in the Caucasus region.
- A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus.
- (alcoholic beverages, humorous) Synonym of White Russian (“a cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, milk, and vodka”).
- a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere
- a person of European descent with a light-skinned or pale complexion
adj
noun
- (Canada, US, informal, sometimes derogatory) A Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent.
- (ice hockey) A member of the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.
- (aviation, military, historical) The Avro Canada CF-100 fighter-interceptor aircraft, in use between 1952 and 1981.
- (rare) A thing from Canada.
- (skiing) Chiefly as Crazy Canuck: a member of the Canadian alpine ski team.
- informal term for Canadians in general and French Canadians in particular
adj
name
verb
- (Canada) To speak rapid insulting comical banter back and forth; to bicker or argue.
- (intransitive) To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets; to chitter; to twitter.
- (intransitive) To speak in a high-pitched staccato.
- (transitive, radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) To modify (a pulse of signal) so that it sweeps through a band of frequencies throughout its duration.
- sing in modulation
- make high-pitched sounds
noun
noun
- (Canada) A person whose mother tongue is neither English, French, nor (sometimes) an indigenous language.
- A person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority.
- (phonology) Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.
- (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme