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  • sook
    [Scots, to suck CSD] n. a bird, the yellow-bellied sap-sucker (sphyrapica varius): 1940 (Bond 147, p.c.)
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  • song service
    n. a church service in which the singing of hymns predominates: 1980 (Major 7).
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  • sometimey
    [US Black idem (Major); cf. sometimish in Trin. (Winer p.c.) and Vir. (Seaman)] adj. (of persons) moody, changeable: Some people
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  • something else
    [DAS idem 1957 →; cf. BDNE I] phr. something extraordinary: 1936 Dis war bizness is sump'n else (Dupuch 32). (Gen.)
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  • something
    /sómting, sompm/ n. 1. [Car.; cf. Sra. sani idem WST] thing: 1918 He see dis somept'in' in de bed like two somebody (Parsons
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  • somebody
    [Car.; Gul. idem ADD; cf. DJE smadi, Sra. soema idem WST] n. a person: 1918 Dey set two sheet, an' fix
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  • Solomon potato
    [etym. unknown, but cf. the equally Biblical ABRAHAM CASSAVA] n. a variety of sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas: 1977 (Albury 20). (Gen.)
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  • solitaire
    [DHS, solitary confinement] n., Obs. a building for keeping slaves in solitary confinement: 1888 Near [his] house is still standing what
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  • soldier wood
    [W3 different sp.] n. a tree, Colubrina elliptica: 1977 (Patterson 57). = SMOOTH SNAKE BARK (Black)
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  • soldier vine, soldier wine, soldier bush
    n. a plant, Tournefortia volumbilis: 1920 (Britton 361). 1978 Soldier vine … a trailing shrub used to "restore a man's manhood"
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