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  • 'member
    [Atlantic; from remember by aphesis] v. to remember: She ain't member say she put the peas on the fire (Acklins).
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  • mental power
    n. willpower, strength of character: Children who feel that they should not be responsible for their aging parents suffer from
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  • I meet Mama-dem
     (doing this) phr. People have been doing this ever since I can remember: I meet Mama-dem saying it was do
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  • meet
    [also Guy. (Bickerton 1981:113), Gul. (Parsons I923:xvii); OED idem obs.→1772, also Brit. dial. EDD; this may have converged with usage
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  • me and you
    [Car.; US Black (Major); a calque: cf. Twi me ne wo (lit. me and you) idem (Aboagye p.c.)] n. phr. threat
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  • me-acky
     /miyáki/ [cf. ME-ACK + -y forming adj.] adj. (of food) soggy, disgusting. cf. SOBBY (Cat)  
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  • me-ack
    /miyák/ [etym. uncertain, but cf. nautical yak dirt or refuse of any kind DSS, and US slang yuck exclamation of
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  • me (2)
     /miy/ pron. [Pan-Creole; although variously attributed to English me (cf. Brit. dial. Mid me unemphatic form of the nominative EDD),
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  • me (1)
    /mi/ preverbal marker. [cf. W Car. mi, me(n) (Holm 1982:1:5), Jam. min, men (Bailey 1966: 140) idem; from BEEN by
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  • maze
    See MAKE A MAZE.
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