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- 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)
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