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Glossary

  • bakery (baked goods, not a location)
  • bloody (emphatic expression, considered vulgar by some)
  • bush (woodland or forest)
  • choppers (leather mittens with wool liners)
  • chuke or chook (stocking cap without a tassel, from the French tuque or French-Canadian toque)
  • eh (a French-Canadian expletive)
  • holy wha’ (an expression of amazement)
  • juustua (squeaky cheese)
  • korpu (hard cinnamon toast)
  • lad (young boy)
  • make wood (cut firewood)
  • nisu (Finnish sweetbread)
  • pank (to compact material)
  • pannukakku (Finnish custard pancake)
  • pasty (Cornish dish of potato, carrot, turnip, meat, traditionally flank steak and pork, wrapped in a pie crust, usually in a half-moon shape)
  • pork pie (French meat pie popular during the holidays)
  • sauna makkara (ring bologna)
  • sisu (untranslatable, but suggesting uncommon persistence)
  • sled (snowmobile)
  • swale (a dip in the land or a valley)
  • swampers (rubber winter boots with no liners)
  • visku vellia (Finnish fruit soup)
  • what the hey! (as in oh well or whatever)