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  • Nango Town
    [cf. NANGO Yoruba, referring to settlers; the tribal name may have become generalized to include all liberated Africans] n. an
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  • Nago Nanga, N'onga, Nungo, Nago
     [Pan-Creole; cf. DJE Nanga, Nago a Yoruba negro, from Ewe anagó idem; also "term of contempt originally applied by Creole
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  • Nancy
    See ANANCY.  
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  • nana
    [also US Black (Stanley 1941:8) and Brit. child's word (Pye p.c.); from banana by aphesis] n. banana (child's word). (Black)
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  • nam-sack
    (Cat); num-sack (Andros) [cf. nam-sack in Gul]. (Writers' Program 1940:15), DJE "blend of nam (cf. nambu field-bag. .. cf. Twi
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  • name
    [Atlantic; by passivization] v. to be named: 1918 You must tell me what I name (Parsons 115). 1954 I name
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  • nalsada
    [etym] n. a small fish (sp?): If you ain't got codliver oil, they got something call nalsada they catch out to
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  • naked-wood
    [DAE different sp. 1837→; from its seeming to lack bark] n. a tree: 1782 Naked-wood (most beautifully veined and marbled)
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  • naked-skin
    [Car.; cf. OED naked destitute of clothing (implying poverty and wretchedness)] adj. naked (as from poverty). (Nassau, Inagua)
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  • naked dance
    [cf. DAS a lewd dance or obscene performance (New Orleans); from its formerly being performed in the nude] n. an
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