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  • Andros-descent
    [descended from Andros people, who are supposedly irascible] adj. short-tempered: She Andros-descent! (Nassau).
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  • Andros
      /ándrows, ándras/ [cf. quot., also the Greek island Andros] n. the largest island of the Bahamas. Its earliest names include
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  • and those
    /an d(h)owz/ [cf. US dial. South Mr. Smith and those Mr. Smith and the others of his family WSC; hypercorrection
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  • and thing
    /an ting/ [E Car., Gul.; cf. Yoruba ati gbogbo nkan miràn (lit, and all other things) 'etc.' (Oyedeji p.c.)] phr.
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  • and them
    /an dem/ [Car.; cf. AND THOSE] phr. and associates: They forever talking bout the gov'ment corrupt and the ministers and
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  • and see
    /an siy/ [cf. SEEING THAT] phr. because: I put water in dere and see no water was dere. (Black)
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  • and ... not
    phr. without (doing something): You hardly go out and don't make a day's pay. (Black)
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  • and
    /an/ [OED, used to connect the unit numbers with the tens when they precede ... as in one and twenty]
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  • anchobe
    [cf. Sp. anchova anchovy] n. the young of the pilchard, a fish related to the sardine. (Eleu.)
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  • Anancy, Anansi, Annancy, Nansi
    /(a)nánsi/ Also Nanza, Nassy, Nasty [Pan-Creole; cf. Haitian annasi idem TDKF; cf. US Black Ann Nancy ... spin her house
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