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  • send call
    [Pan-Creole; cf. Papiamentu manda yama (lit, send call) to summon (E. Bendix p.c.) and Haitian voye chache (lit, send search)
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  • semconga
    (Black); samconga (White); sand conga (Eleu.) [etym?] n. a fish, probably the SAND PERCH.
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  • selfish
    [Gul., glum, dour (Gonzales 1922:325); cf. OED, concerned with one's own advantage to the exclusion of regard for others] adj.
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  • self, se'f
    [Atlantic; cf. OED "the Poete selfe" obs. → 1579; cf. Réunion Cr, Fr. mèm idem (Chaudenson 1974:161)] 1. an emphasizer,
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  • seersucker
    [W3 cloth with stripes alternately flat and puckered; from dark and light green venation of leaves] n. a shrub, Pseudocarpidium
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  • seen, scene
    [cf. Jamaican Rastafarian talk "Seen for assent or seen? for question are commonplace in any youth talk" (Pollard 1979:9); from
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  • see-me-no-more
    n. 1. the popular name of a Nassau cemetery. (Gen.) 2. a game of tag around a boat, played by
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  • seeking
    [cf. OED seek to try to find out rare] adj. 1. inquisitive: You're too seeking—you come around poking and seeking
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  • seedy
    adj. 1. [cf. SEED 3] (of hair) very short, tightly curled, and difficult to brush out: Tha's the seediest head
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  • seed
    n. 1. [W Car.; cf. Haitian grenn bwa idem HCEFD] fruit: 1976 In this [almond] seed is a kernel (Eneas
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