Bobby Cantelli

The elusive Bobby Cantelli, no one knows where he is, he is traceless, and undetectable. Yet he is out there. There are no explanations for his occurrences. He leaves signs of his appearances, but don't get involved, for no one knows what he is or is not capable of.

Have you heard about Bobby Cantelli?

by He who isnt not maybe January 24, 2010

Cantonese

A language spoken a lot in the south of China as well as around the world (especially in Chinese takeaways). It's roughly as related to Mandarin Chinese as English is to German: A speaker of (only) Cantonese cannot readily understand a speaker of (only) Mandarin Chinese and vice versa. Cantonese is spoken and not written, just as Mandarin Chinese is: Cantonese speakers and Mandarin Chinese speakers write in Written Chinese. It just happens that Mandarin Chinese is closer to the written standard.

If you're from the US or the UK, when you think you hear "Chinese", it's likely Cantonese, especially if your knowledge of "Chinese" is limited to "chicken chow mein".

Mandarin: "Tian bu pa, di bu pa, zhi pa guangdong ren shuo putonghua."
Translation: 'I fear neither heaven nor earth, I only fear Cantonese speakers trying to speak Mandarin'.

Cantonese: "Tin mh geng, deih mh geng ji geng bak fong yahn gong gwong dung wah mh jehng".
Translation: 'I fear neither heaven nor earth, I only fear Mandarin speakers speaking Cantonese so inaccurately'.
(From chinese-lessons.com)

by rent-a-linguist December 28, 2010

Canetoad

An Australianism or Aussieism for someone that resides or is born in Queensland.
Comes originally from a football war between two Australian States, Queensland and New South Wales.
People from New South Wales are also referred to as Cockroaches, also because of the football war.

The Canetoads are gonna kick the Cockroaches ass this State of Origin match.

by Woohzal March 11, 2008

Canterbury High School

Canterbury High School / an Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school near Elmvale and Billings bridge in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The school was opened in 1969, and has over 1400 students. Its sports teams are "The Chargers". Canterbury High School includes a lot of black and Arab immigrants as well as posh white richies in the arts program. Canterbury students are both afraid and are disgusted by the neighbouring Hillcrest students as they are promiscuous. The sports teams in general suck, but do okay in some sports such as swimming. Canterbury has argueably the best arts program in the region (next to the frenchie school DeLaSalle) and it attracts snobby anorexic dancers, obnoxiously loud actors, high visual students, gay vocal students, and random muscians from all over. This is a very white population and about 0.000000006 people in it are not white. The walls are covered with lots of awesome artowrk and the halls are full of crazy people. It's a very friendly environment in general. It's full of gay boys and beautiful girls and is a great place for a straight guy to come and all the girls there are desperate and even a mediocre guy has 3 girls after him. Couples have sex in the hallways sometimes, especially the drama stairwell. A good place in general.

P1. Wow your crazy, which high school do you go to?

Awesome Person: Canterbury High School, nbd. ;)

by CHSmas December 5, 2011

Cantonese

Cantonese is one of the languages spoken in China. It is not a dialect of the invented "Chinese language". It is a language itself, such as Mandarin. The only difference is that Mandarin is the official one, and Cantonese is not.

Luca: Hi, Zeke! what've you been up to?
Ezekiel: Oh, I've been studying a lot for my exam tomorrow
Luca: exam of what?
Ezekiel: Oops, I forgot to tell you that I took up Cantonese, which is a language spoken in China. It is not the official one, though.

by Ezechiel August 16, 2006

Cantoning

To utterly and totally destroy the punchline of a joke so as to make it completely devoid of any sort of humerous value. Often, the act of CantonING (the verb form) is funny, because the person who catoned the joke often is not aware they have done so.

This term comes from the town of Canton in Central Illinois where people have a tendancy, due to life in such a provincial area, to miss high-brow humor and explain simple jokes with what they see as...jokes.

"He totally Cantoned that joke."

Example of Cantoning:
person "A": "This room smells like 15 kinds of ass."
person "B": "Yeah, almost like 20 kinds of ass!"

Example 2:

Person "A": "What's green and flies?"
Person "B": "Superpickle!"
*laughter ensues*
Canton person: "Yeah, hahaha, or super green bell pepper."
*everyone pauses and stares, looking awkwardly at one another*
Canton person: "Sorry, I work at Hy-Vee."

by Matthew & David Richard July 23, 2004

Canterbury Scene

A sub category of progressive rock started by the band The Wilde Flowers. Members of this band went on to form Caravan and The Soft Machine. The style of music mixes whimsical psychadelia with jazz inspired improvisation.

In the Land of Grey and Pink is a great Canterbury Scene album.

by The Ryan May 30, 2006