Break your path

break v To break one's path means to attempt to avoid meeting another person by taking another route. Breaking one's path can be taken as an admission of guilt, if two parties in dispute approach the one who breaks his path firs is in the wrong. I have only heard it used in reference to qu...

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Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published: 1965
Subjects:
English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/11636
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spelling ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/11636 2023-12-31T10:18:54+01:00 Break your path 1965/11/xx image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/11636 eng eng B Ronald Noseworthy November 1965 Grand Bank, F.B. References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 8956 B_8956_break v http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/11636 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript 1965 ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:35Z break v To break one's path means to attempt to avoid meeting another person by taking another route. Breaking one's path can be taken as an admission of guilt, if two parties in dispute approach the one who breaks his path firs is in the wrong. I have only heard it used in reference to quite serious matters. Used I Used I 2 Used I Source appears in DNE I as C 66-13 Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI)
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topic English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
spellingShingle English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
Break your path
topic_facet English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
description break v To break one's path means to attempt to avoid meeting another person by taking another route. Breaking one's path can be taken as an admission of guilt, if two parties in dispute approach the one who breaks his path firs is in the wrong. I have only heard it used in reference to quite serious matters. Used I Used I 2 Used I Source appears in DNE I as C 66-13
format Manuscript
title Break your path
title_short Break your path
title_full Break your path
title_fullStr Break your path
title_full_unstemmed Break your path
title_sort break your path
publishDate 1965
url http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/11636
genre Newfoundland
genre_facet Newfoundland
op_source Department of Folklore
Original held in the Department of Folklore.
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore
op_relation B
Ronald Noseworthy November 1965 Grand Bank, F.B.
References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php
Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database
8956
B_8956_break v
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