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  • news
    [by extension] n. gossip: Don't never take news from no one on your wife, because news cause me on this
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  • New Providence
    [see quot.] n. the island on which the Bahamian capital of Nassau is located: 1880 As far as is known,
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  • New Guinea
    [cf. the Guinea Coast of West Africa, the principal source of slaves] n., Obs. name of a settlement of free
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  • never-done food
    n. food said to be not ready as long as unwelcome visitors in hopes of an invitation to eat are
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  • never
    [Atlantic, SA idem; cf. Indo-Portuguese "nunca (lit. never) , para denotar o preterito negativo" (Delgado 1900:42); cf. also Asian Port.
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  • nettle
    [OED, a plant noted for the stinging property of the leaf-hairs; cf. also nettle-fish a stinging jellyfish] n. a jellyfish,
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  • nervous
    [cf. W3 nerves nervous disorganization or collapse, influenced by nervous) n. a case of bad nerves: 1936 He got d'
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  • nelly
    [ evidently from PANELLY or CANELLY via aphesis] n. a swelling from a bump on the head. (Andros)
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  • neither
    [Car.; OED idem q 513] conj. nor; or (followed by noun phrases as well as clauses); I don't like the
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  • negro fish
    [from its dark color?] n. Obs. a fish: 1731 Perca marina puncticulata . the Negro fish (Catesby 7). cf. NIGGER
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