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  • shoes
    [Atlantic (Hancock 1969:56)] n. sing. or pl. shoe(s): The girl was wearing a blue shoes (Nassau). <Black>  ◊Note a shoes a
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  • shock
    <Black>; shuck <Eleu., Mayag.> [OED shock to impart a physical shock] v. to cause a stabbing pain: My tooth was
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  • shittin's: the shittin's
    [cf. W3 the shits idem] n. diarrhea: He done eat so much till he get the shittin's (Nassau). <Nassau>
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  • shitting squid
    [from its release of ink for defense] n. a variety of squid (Loligo pealii?). <Black>
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  • shitting cloud
    <Eleu.>; shif(t)ing cloud <Black>; shooting cloud <Andros> [W Car shittin' cloud idem; from shitten + cloud (DJE) plus euphemism] n.
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  • shittin'
    [cf. OED shitten (past participle of shit v.) defiled with excrement; contemptible] adj. (of persons) worthless: I go cut he
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  • shipjack
    [cf. OED skipjack name given to various fishes that leap out of the water] n. a fish (sp?) of the
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  • shingling
     [from appearance] n. newspaper or crepe paper cut into broad strips for JUNKANOO costumes, as opposed to the narrow strips
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  • shingles
     [cf. OED shingle wooden house-tile] n. 1. roofing, including tar paper, asbestos, metal, etc.: 1966 (Otterbein 112): My grandmother house
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  • shingle-and-lard
    n. a style of plaiting broad light and dark strips of STRAW1  together: (Bannister display). cf. MIX PLAIT <Andros>
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