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  • native
    [OED, one born in a place; one of the original or usual inhabitants of a country, as dis-tinguished from strangers
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  • nation
    [Gul. idem (Writers' Program 1940:23); OED idem obs.→1762] n. a great number (especially of persons or animals): You got your
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  • nasty days
    [OED nasty unclean, especially to a disgusting degree] n. period of menstruation. cf. FILTHY DAYS (Eleu.)
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  • nastiness
    [W Car.; OED, moral foulness or impurity; grossness, obscenity] n. sexual perversion: They say the boys-dem do nastiness in that
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  • Nassy, Nasty
    See ANANCY.
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  • Nassauvian
    /nasóhviyan/ (Gen.); /nasúwviyan/ (Eleu.) [from Nassau, by analogy with e.g. Peru, Peruvian] n. a native of Nassau: 1888 Nassauvian (Powles
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  • Nassau roach
    n. the small, one-inch cockroach, Blattella germanica, as opposed to the large DRUMMER ROACH. = AMERICAN ROACH, CHINESE ROACH, HITIAN
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  • Nassau boy or girl, man
    etc. n. Nassauvian; inhabitant of Nassau: 1936 Wen Nassau man reach [to apply for a job], I-lun Mun man bin dere
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  • nary
    [US Black idem ESEA; OED, US and dial. (var. of ne'er a) neither; no; not (a)] negator. Not (one): 1936
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  • Nansi, Nanza
    See ANANCY.
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