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  • Definitions starting with G
    get
    Answer: Other idioms with get in its common meanings include: get behind somebody to do something [Car.; cf. keep after somebody to do something ...
  • Definitions starting with N
    Nassau
    Answer: [named after Nassau, a former duchy now part of Hesse, Germany; its Dutch line of rulers took the title of ...
  • Definitions starting with G
    go (1), ga, ger, gon, guh
    Answer: /go(n)/ [cf. (to be) going (to do)] preverbal marker, indicates future action: 1978 I gun be on der park (Smith 4). I ...
  • Definitions starting with G
    gone
    Answer: v. [Car.; from gone, going, go on] 1. to be going: 1895 I might as vwell gone too (Edwards 73). Man, I gone! ...
  • Definitions starting with R
    run
    Answer: [OED to flow] adj. (of a liquid consistency) runny: 1966 When that ...
  • Definitions starting with T
    throw
    Answer: /trow/ v. 1. [OED, to shoot, as a missile engine] to shoot (an arrow): 1966 Jack had about three arrow...he ...
  • Definitions starting with S
    stay
    Answer: v. 1. [W Car.; OED, to stop (absolute) obs. → 1777] to halt: Stay! (Nassau). (Gen.) 2. [W Car.; OED idem Scots, ...
  • Definitions starting with D
    do
    Answer: v. 1. [Atlantic, DAS idem] to harm: That bug won't do you nothing (Nassau). (Black) 2. [Car.] to harm by ...
  • Definitions starting with F
    for
    Answer: /fa/ prep. 1. [cf. Cam. fo for, at, to CCD] with, to; in, of : 1940  I don't 'gree fer dat(Dupuch ...
  • Definitions starting with G
    gi, gie, gee
    Answer: /gi/ v. 1. [Atlantic; cf. DJE give "often reduced in dial. (as also in English, Scots, US, etc. dial.) to /gi/] to give: 1936 ...