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  • Buildings
    Traditionally most DWELVING HOUSES in the Bahamas have been modest. Only wealthy people can afford an UPSTAIRS HOUSE with GABLE-ENDS
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  • Buildings
    Traditionally most DWELVING HOUSES in the Bahamas have been modest. Only wealthy people can afford an UPSTAIRS HOUSE with GABLE-ENDS
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  • Bush Medicine
    Modern DOCTOR MEDICINE was traditionally often difficult to obtain on the more remote Bahamian islands, and it was often prohibitively
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  • Buildings
    Traditionally most DWELVING HOUSES in the Bahamas have been modest. Only wealthy people can afford an UPSTAIRS HOUSE with GABLE-ENDS
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  • by-talk
    [cf. OED by-talk 1. small talk; 2. obs. → 1579 by-word, pet phrase] n. 1. a piece of information by
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  • by-(and)-by
    /bay(m)bay/ [Atlantic; cf. DJE bambai, Brit. dial. West bamby EDD, US dial. South bimeby WEA] adv. later; in a little
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  • by (2)
    [from use as prep, introducing non-embedded participial phrases; NYC idem (Hunter student essays)] participial phrase marker: By him allowing her
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  • by (1)
    [also Bajan (Collymore 25), Gul. ADD] conj. since: 1966 By you's the man, I'll let you go (Crowley 113). (Black)
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  • butt up
    [hypercorrection of BUCK UP] v.phr. to encounter: 1918 You goin' to butt up again' a lot o' trouble (Parsons 34).
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  • butter hamlet
    n. a fish, Hypoplectrus puella: 1968 (Böhlke 274). (Black)
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