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  • onions
    [cf. hernia /(h) óynya/] n. hernia. (Abaco, Inagua)
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  • one two-three
    [cf. Sra. wan toe WST, Krio tu-tri KED, Trin. two tree (Winer), Gul. two-t'ree (Gon-zales 1922:336), all several'; cf. also
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  • one time ago
     adv. phr. 1. a while ago: One time ago she didn't used to speak to people (Nassau). (Black) 2. a
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  • one time
    [Pan-Creole; "abbreviation of at one time" DJE, cf. also Pap. un bez (Hoyer 98) and Fr. Cr. yon fwe both
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  • one-one
    [Pan-Creole; cf. Haitian yun-yun (Sylvain 1936:73); cf. Port. Cr.  (Ivens Ferraz 1979: 59), Yoruba ok'pkan DYL, Bemba u-mo u-mo (Mann
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  • one mind tell me
     [Gul. idem (Writers' Program 1940:62); cf. MY MIND TELL ME and US colloq. "I had a mind to, . ."] n.
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  • one-minded
    adj. 1.[W Car.; by contrast to a phrase such as of two minds] decisive; clear-headed. (Black) 2. unanimous. (Eleu., Nassau)
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  • one day more 'an all
    [Gul. idem (Work 1919:441); cf. also Krio wan de ya idem KED, Cam. some day been de idem (Todd 1979),
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  • one
    [Atlantic] indefinite article a, an (unemphatic): 1918 B'o' Boukee run t'rough de bush, gone, hidin' one hole (Parsons 84). 1936
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  • on-dying
     [cf. OED on formerly frequent in connexions in which a- is now usual.. on loud etc.; cf.a with be: engaged
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