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  • spankcadocious
    See SPOKADOCIOUS.
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  • spank
    [OED, to slap or smack (a person, esp. a child) with the open hand] v. to beat (a drum) loudly. (Black)
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  • Spanish
    [Car.; from lighter-skinned Spanish-speakers being considered RED] adj. of a color from red to tan to gold (in compound words). Spanish calalu
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  • Spaniard wasp
    [cf. Vir. Jack Spaniard wasp, yellowjacket (Seaman)] n. a large brown wasp (sp?). (Andros, San Sal.)
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  • Spaniard
    [cf. SPANISH] n. the Greater Antillean bullfinch, Loxigilla violacea, a black bird with red patches: 1960 (Bond 231). = RED SPANIARD,
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  • span
    or spam: make your span (Exuma); make your spam (Inagua, Mayag.) [cf. US span v. before shooting from a hole in the game
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  • Spain-Spain
    [from its cry] n. a bird, the blue-grey gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea): 1940 (Bond 178, p.c.). = CAT BIRD, CHEW BIRD, COTTON
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  • spacy
    [OED, spacious] adj. having gaps, as between teeth: The chairs was spacy—there was plenty room between them (Nassau). (Black)
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  • sow-fish
    (Andros); sow-grunt (San Sal.); sow-mouth (Cat, Crooked) n. the small-mouth grunt, Haemulon chrysargyreum.
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  • sow
    [cf. OED sow-cat female cat, also US dial. South ADD] n. the female (e.g. of crabs and cats; not used of hogs
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