Eva Linehan, Branch, Newfoundland, Word, Customs and Sayings 

Going on a “tear” was the only we described “partying”, lol. Sleeveen is another common word used outside the Avalon Peninsula. We use “scrope” as the past tense of scrape in some towns in Central NF but a lot of people there also used “scrawb” too. Those pieces of ice, we called them pans or copy-pans and people would use sticks to jump copy-pans. My parents always called children “youngsters”, always.

This is mad, you’d swear she lived up in Dublin all her life

All them phrases came over with their ancestors from Ireland, and passed down to them who are living on another island fascinating stuff.

Mother called ants pissmires.

thank you for posting ! Enjoyed listening to this GOD bless Eva delightful

My mother used the word ma-kus as a word to mean a buffoon or a fool.

We called them rashers as well.