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  • nigger(s') man
    [cf. US Black nigger lover a white person who associates with or who relates to black people on a human
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  • nigger-fish
    [OED, W3 different sp.; DJE no sp.; probably from dark color] n. 1. a fish, Bodianus fulvus (punctatus): 1905 (Shattuck
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  • nicky
    cf. SEA TINNICKY idem] n. a small beach crab (sp?). (Nassau)
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  • nickly white
    See NIGLUM VITAE
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  • nicker vine
    [cf. NICKER (BEAN) I] n. a trailing plant (sp?) with reddish-yellow beans and hooked prickles. (Nassau, White)
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  • nicker (bean)
    [DJE idem; OED, (seeds) identified with nicker, a marble] n. 1, a plant, Caesalpinia bonduc: 1889 (Gardner 375). = RED
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  • nicker
    (Eleu.); nickle (Mayag.) [cf. Scots nickle knuckle; to aim with a marble; nickler, nicker marble with which a boy aims
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  • Nicholls Town
    View a map [see quot.] n. a town in North Andros: 1945 The remnant of the black and coloured people
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  • next day eveing
    phr. on the evening of the next day: 1918 (Parsons 19).
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  • next
    /neks/ adj. 1. [Car; influenced by African usage: cf. Yoruba ékejì next, the other, the second of a pair DYL]
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