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  • pancake bush
     See POUND-CAKE BUSH
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  • panama
    [from its resemblance to the hat?] n. a kind of shell (sp?) found on the seashore: 1977 Some shells. .
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  • pamolly
    /pamóbli/ (Exuma, San Sal.); pamoley /pamówli/ (Exuma); panelly /panéli/ (Adelaide) [etym?] n. a swelling from a bump on the head;
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  • pammy sickle
     pammy sucker. See DANNY SIN EEL.
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  • pammy gaulinny
     /pámi góhlini/ [cf. pommy sickle and gaulin crab] n. a small crab (sp?). (Andros)
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  • palming
    palming [OED palm to stroke with the palm of the hand] n. masturbation. cf. MISS PALMER (Gen.)
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  • pallitary
     [from palate + -ary forming adj.] adj. delicious. (Acklins, Exuma)
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  • pain-in-back
     [from medicinal use] n, a shrub: 1920 Pain-in-back. . .Trema lamarckiana (Britton 104). 1977 Pain-in-back. . .Bunchosa glandulosa (Patterson 79).
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  • painful
    painful [OED idem, 1612 only] adj. (of persons) suffering pain: 1963 I was very painful for two days (Cottman 123).
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  • pain-a-belly bush
     [cf. PAIN-A-BELLY n. a plant, Aloe Vera, used to relieve intestinal discomfort. = ALOES, BELLY-ACHE PLANT,HEALING PLANT
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