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  • spice
    or spice tea [cf. SPICE allspice + TEA any hot drink; cf. Haitian epis te spices (tea) HCEFD] n. a
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  • sperit passing
    [cf. Krio spirit pas, said when there is a complete silence KED] phr. said when a person is out of
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  • sperit bread
    1. (San Sal.), also sperit hat (Crooked) [cf. SPERIT, but connection uncertain] n. a round loaf of JOHNNY CAKE. = MOON BREAD
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  • sperit bird
    See SPIRIT BIRD.
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  • sperit bean
    (Andros, Exuma); sperit peas (Crooked) [cf. OED duppy peas (Crotolaria sp.)] n. a plant (sp?) with five-inch pods containing white beans.
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  • sperit, speerit, sparit
    /spérit/ [Gul. idem (Hancock 1969:59); cf. OED spirit the disembodied soul of a (deceased) person] n. ghost, often distinguished from Spirit Holy
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  • spell for something
    [cf. Brit. dial. spell (for) to strive to obtain by hints without directly asking EDD] phr. to try to get by
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  • speckle-eye
    (Gen.); speckle-eye hind (San Sal.) n. a fish, Mycteroperca tigris. TIGER GROUPER
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  • spec
    [cf. OED specs spectacles colloq.] n. sing. eye glasses: 1963 There was in the islands a great need for glasses, "a spec"
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  • spark
    [cf. OED spar to box, possibly influenced by spank] v. to punch (a person). (San Sal.)
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