Canadian soldier

English

Noun

Canadian soldier (plural Canadian soldiers)

  1. (Ohio) A mayfly.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Canadian,‎ soldier.

References
  • Allan A. Metcalf (2000) How We Talk: American Regional English Today, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 97:
    A number of words are distinctive to Ohio. A person others would call a hillbilly is in parts of Ohio a hilliken, and a railroad of small significance can be called a hoodlebug. In northern and eastern Ohio, the large short-lived insect others call a mayfly is known as a Canadian soldier. And only in Ohio is the syrup you put on ice cream sometimes called dope. Akron and Cleveland in northeastern Ohio speak of the devil's strip.
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