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  • sweet bark, sweet wood bark
    [cf. OED sweet wood bark 1846 (Bahamas)] n. the cascarilla bush, Croton eluteria; its bark is used to flavor alcoholic drinks such
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  • sweet
    adj. 1. [Atlantic; cf. OED, having a pleasant taste (but last quot. with meat etc. is 1765); cf. Port. Cr. doši
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  • swee-swy
    /swiy sway/ [cf. Krio sway sound of whip in flogging, and sway sway small whip, esp. for child KED; cf. also
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  • swash
    n. [cf. W3 swash channel a narrow channel of water between a sand bank and the shore] n. a mangrove swamp
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  • swamp bush
    [from habitat] n. a name for several species of shrubs: 1920 Malache scabra (Britton 271). 1977 Pavonia spicata, Dodonea viscosa,
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  • swallow the grunt
    [cf. swallow one's pride and US dial. South gruntle to grumble WSC] v. to resume friendly relations after an argument: 1977
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  • Suzy
    [etym?] n. 1. penis (child's word). (Exuma) 2. also Suzy Q: vagina (child's word). (Black)
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  • surge
    [OED, to cause to move with the waves] v. to submerge: 1889 Jamaica dogwood. . . used for poison by "surging" boughs,
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  • sure
    [cf. OED, to assure or secure, obs. exc. dial., reinforced by the tendency of Cr. adj. to become verbs under the
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  • supprick
    /sóprik/ [etym. uncertain, but probably from SUCK-RIP, by metathesis] v. to limp: He supprickin' (San Sal.) —adv. lamely: He hoppin' supprick (Mayag.)
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