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  • Molly Miller
    [etym?] n. a fish: 1905 Labrisomus nuchipinnis (Shattuck 319). 1968 Blennius cristatus (Bohlke 564). (Inagua, San Sal.)
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  • molest
    /mowles/ [W. Car.; OED item obs. →1726] v. to annoy: If you don't molest my dog, my dog won't molest
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  • mole
    [Atlantic; also Gul. (Parsons 1923:198); cf. OED mould idem, now dial.] n. the fontanelle or soft top of an infant's
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  • molasses
    [OED, syrup obtained from sugar in the process of refining] n. a syrup obtained from boiling down the juice of
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  • mojo
    /mowjow/ [cf. Gul moco idem, from Fula moco'o medicine man (Turner 1949:198); cf. also US Black "mojo: originally 'magic spell,
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  • mois'
    [cf. moist and Scots muist mouldiness CSD] n. mildew. = MICE (San Sal.)
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  • moi-moi
    /mohy mohy/; mai-mai, mi-mi /may-may [cf. Krio maymoy Nigerian bean dish, from Yoruba moimoi idem KED; cf. also Ibo moimoi
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  • modern man
    [cf. US Black mondo man idem; from the name of a magazine] n. a male homosexual (youth slang): 1974 (King
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  • mix-up
    [Car.; from (racially) mixed + up] adj. racially mixed. (Black)
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  • mixtured
    [from (racial) mixture + -ed as in textured but cf. also OED mixture v. obs. rare, refl. to mix or
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