quick willies

[David Robertson]

I was looking through "BC Then and Now: Okanagan / Kootenay / Cariboo / 
Volume One" by Roland Morgan (Vancouver: Bodima, 1978).

It's a book with historic and recent photographs of identical scenes in 
various BC places.

The historic photo for Kelowna is of a traditional pit house.  Morgan calls 
these "kekuli houses--known as 'quick willies' to settlers.'"

I've seen this term as an English borrowing with a qu- at the beginning 
(quiggly, I think).  But 'quick willies' is new to me.  Nice regionalism, 
cf. April Wine's song 'Kick Willy Road'.  (They're from Halifax, though.)  

--Dave R

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