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• long cord

  n. the foot-long seed pods of certain native trees. (White)
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• long-belly

  [Car.] adj. gluttonous. (Exuma)
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• long

  adj. 1. [Atlantic; OED idem → 1609 "now rare except in jocular use" but cf. also São Tomé Port Cr.
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• lone

  [OED, only obs. → 1602; alone obs. → 1817] adj. only; nothing but; many: 1979 Lone eyes start turnin' an
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• lolly

  [cf. Trin. lolo penis (Winer); etym. uncertain, but cf. Krio tololi male genitals, from Limba (Hancock p.c.)] n. the female
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• loggerhead

  [OED 1772 → but DJE 1707 →] n. a large, inedible sea turtle, Thalassochelys caretta: 1731 (Catesby II 38). (Gen.)
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• lodging

  [cf. OED lodge a shed or out-house dial.] n. a shed where
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• lock

  [cf. Krio lok baffled, unable to reply (Hancock p.c.); from locked (in); cf. Haitian pran nan lak trapped HCEFD] adj.
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• local

  [probably from expatriate use of local, perhaps influenced by low] adj. 1. humble, lowly : My supervisor never thought that
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• lobster

  [cf. OED lob something pendulous, a lump dial.] n. dried nasal mucus. (White)
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