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  • suck-jaw
    [cf. SUCK 1 + jaw] n. the mouth and jaw with a sunken look due to malnutrition or loss of teeth,
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  • sucking fish
    [W Cat.; W3 different sp.] n. the Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus maculatus. (Gen.)
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  • suck-in
    [cf. SUCK 1 and Krio sukanka (from Temne) (of persons) old, wrinkled KED] adj. gaunt: He look suck-in (Exuma). = SUCK-SUCK (Black)
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  • suckers
    n. pl. 1. peeled sections of sugar cane, sucked for their sweet juice: 1936 Wen I in de road I can't eat
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  • suck(ed) corn
    n. shriveled maize: 1832 Bracking in Indian Corn . . . got only 4 horse loads of sucked Corn (Farquharson 53).
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  • suck
    [cf. Guy., to cause to waste away (Yansen 41); cf. OED, to draw (moisture, goodness) from, possibly converging with Yoruba sɔ̃ki to
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  • subby
    See SOBBY.
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  • stupidness
    [Car.; OED the quality of being stupid, now rare (i.e. the word)] n. an act of stupidity: He forever doing stupidness – never
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  • stunt
    [Guy. idem (Yansen 26); cf. OED, to bring to an abrupt stand, to nonplus obs. → 1642] v. to stun: 1966 All
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  • stump
    [Car.; cf. OED, to stumble over a tree stump or other obstacle obs. → 1607; US dial. idem ADD] v. to stub
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