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  • Abraham cassava
    /éybram kasáva/ [etym?] n. a variety of bitter cassava. (Black)
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  • Abraham bush
    /éybram bush/ [etym?] n. 1. a shrub, Xylophylla epiplzyllanthus: 1920 (Britton 220). = HARD HEAD 3, (Gen.) 2. SWORD BUSH
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  • about, 'bout
    /(a)báwt/ [OED, approximately] prep. 1. replaces at with times: This happen just about 7:02 p.m. (Black)2. after certain verbs: We
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  • abarrass
    /abáras/ [from embarrassed by denasalization of initial vowel] adj. embarrassed: 1970 O how Jessie was abarrass! (Wallace 47).
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  • Abaco
      /ábakow/ [probably Lucayan, but cf. also Spanish ábaco abacus and Twi abako shea-tree (Turner 1949:43)] n. a major island of
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  • aback
    /abák/ [Caribbean; cf. Scots aback of time: ago EDD] adverb, ago: Five years aback. (Black)
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  • a (3)
    indefinite article  1. [Car.; OED, indefinite article; before a vowel-sound an] before vowel sounds: 1918 A apple (Parsons 12). 1936
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  • a (2)
    copula /a/ [W Car. from Proto-Creole copula da or na; cf. Twi na idem (Alleyne 1980:89)] equates two noun phrases.
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  • a (1)
    preverbal progressive marker. Also spelled are. /a/ [Car.; from the covergence of an African preverbal marker (e.g. Ewe a habitual
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