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  • sinkers
    [ DAE, muffins, doughnuts, dumplings; DHS small stodgy cake of doughnut kind, gen. in plural] n. pl. heavy, unleavened dumplings
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  • sink
    [from the marbles' disappearance into the player's pocket] v. to hoard a portion of one's marbles during a game instead
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  • singy
    /sínggi/ [etym?] n. penis (child's word). cf. LINGY <Exuma>
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  • sing out
    v. [OED idem → 1901; Tok Pisin idem (Hall 1943: 117)] to call out: 1895 'E sing out, 'e say
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  • singing tree, singer tree
    [ see 1880 quot.] n. a tree, Albizzia lebbek: 1827 The "music" or "singing tree" (Culmer 45). 1880 Trees... [with]
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  • singer
    [cf. Brit. dial. North sing of animals: to hum, buzz EDD] n. the cicada, Tibicen sp.: Dem singer sure like
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  • sing
     n. [ Atlantic; also US Black (Parsons 19I7a: 169)] a song: 1966 the same sing (Crowley 50). 1974 Songs, termed
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  • since
    prep. [OED followed by time expression] from the time (that I was . . . etc.): I ain't do that
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  • sin
    [W Car.; cf. Scots, Irel. sin blame EDD] n. blame, fault: The sin would fall on you (Nassau). cf. KILL
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  • simple
    [W Car.; OED now dial.] adj. (of people) dull-witted: Boy, I thought you had better sense, but you so simple
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