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  • sugar tea
    [W Car.; cf. TEA any hot drink] n. a beverage made of brown sugar dissolved in hot water. (San Sal.)
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  • sugar peas
    [cf. US dial. South idem, a variety of pea with edible pods WSC] n. a bean (Phaseolus saccharatus?) resembling the lima bean, but
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  • sugar more than flour
    [etym. uncertain, but cf. Krio wata pas flawa (lit. water more-than flour) Things are becoming too difficult KED] phr. Things are
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  • sugar loaf
    [W3 refined sugar molded into a solid cone, probably alluding to the variety's sweetness; cf. DJE sugar-loaf pine the China pineapple, translated
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  • sugar, honey, ice, tea
    [cf. W3 sugar idem; a euphemism, the initial letters of which form the word shit] intj. an exclamation of annoyance. (Nassau)
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  • sugar dipper
    [from shape] n. a kind of straw cap. (Crooked)
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  • sugar-cane tea
    [cf. TEA any hot drink] n. a hot drink made from sugar cane which is scraped, cut into pieces, pounded, and
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  • sugar bubby
    [cf. BUBBY breast and OED sugar teat idem, also US dial. South WSC] n. a piece of linen containing sugar, used as
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  • sugar bean
    [DJE idem] n. the lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus: 1889 (Gardner 377). cf. SUGAR PEAS (Gen.)
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  • sugar banana
    [from its sweetness] n. a variety of small, sweet banana: We does grow all kind of banana, specially dem sweet sugar
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