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  • sugar-and-water, sugar-water
    [W Car.] n. a beverage made of brown sugar, water, and sometimes lime juice. (Black)
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  • sugar
    [Trin. idem (Winer p.c.); cf. OED sugar disease idem; from the varying blood sugar characteristic of the disease] n. diabetes: She got
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  • suffer
    [cf. PUNISH suffer + hypercorrection, but cf. also OED suffer to inflict pain upon, obs. (→ 1593) exc. dial.; cf. also Twi
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  • sudge
    [from suds by /z/ to /zh/] v. to lather. (Black) —count n. piece of foam: You can see the sudges on the sea
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  • sudden: all a sudden or all in (or on) a sudden
    [cf. W Car. all in a sudden; OED on a sudden arch. and in a sudden obs. → 1560; cf. current
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  • sud
    [cf. OED sudd idem 17th century] n. suds; foam: Rub the bamboo leaves on your clothes till you get sud (Nassau).
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  • sucky
    [from the drawing force of the undercurrent] adj. (of the sea) having an undertow. = DRAWY (Black)
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  • suck teeth
    [Atlantic, US Black (Smiley 1919:378); calque on an African idiom, e.g. Mende yongoi vofoin (lit. teeth suck) (Rickford & Rickford 1976:23) or
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  • suck-suck
    [from SUCK 1 by reduplication] adj. gaunt. cf. SUCK-IN (Black)
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  • suck-rip(s)
    [etym. uncertain, but possibly from suck + ribs from heaving motion, by devoicing of final consonant cluster] v. to limp.
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