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  • stink
    adj. 1. [Trio. idem (Winer p.c.); cf. US Black You git stink (Writers Program 1940:7); from general tendency of Cr. adj. and
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  • stinging doctor
    [cf. Brit. dial. North doctor horse-fly EDD; from its bite, likened to blood-letting] n. the horse-fly (Tabanus sp.), which has a painful bite:
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  • stinging ants
    n. a small, black ant with a painful bite: When them stinging ants bite you, you wish you bin dead (Nassau). =
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  • stinger
    [from its stinging tail] n. a fish (sp?) resembling the stingray but with a shorter tail: 1782 Breams, ten-pounders, stingers (Bruce 46).
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  • still yet
    [pleonastic] adv. still: My brother, he in the Church of God and still yet he ain' come to we church (Andros).
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  • stiffereen
    /stifaríyn/ [cf. Scots stiffening starch CSD] n. a thick dairy drink produced from powdered milk, butterfat and sugar, usually sold wholesale to
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  • stiff cock
    [cf. OED cock penis; from its purported effectiveness in curing impotence] n. a plant (sp?). (Black)
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  • stiff beard grass
    [from texture] n. a grass, Andropogon semiberbis: 1920 (Britton 13). (Exuma, Mayag.)
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  • sticky weed
    [cf. Sticky¹ ; from prickles] n. a plant, Eschenbachia lyrata: 1920 (Britton 444). (San Sal.)
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  • sticky fish
    [cf. STICKY¹ ; from its quills] n. the porcupine fish, Diodon hystrix. = EDGE HOG (Black)
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