underwear, usually male. Sometimes called
gauch.
I can't find my gauchies!
My gauchies are too tight.
Many residents of Saskatchewan, and in particular, rural residents, use the phrase "up south" instead of 'down south'.
There does not seem to be a distance involved, as in the 'up south' vs. 'deep south' usage in the southern USA.
He's from up south somewhere.
"Where's Beaver Creek?"
"I think it's up south a ways."
underwear, usually male, sometimes called
gauchies
I didn't know she was there, and I came out in my gauch.
Im all out of clean gauch!
Improvised repair or construction using on-hand parts or methods.
"We don't have one of those fasteners, but we can buckshee it with wire."
"That looks like it was bucksheed."
In common usage by RCAF personnel during the 1960s.
Improvised, usually using substituted parts on hand.
We don't have any screws that will fit, but we can buckshee it with wire.
That clamp is buckshee, but it will do until we get the part.
This was common usage in thr RCAF, circa 1960s.
