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  • breads
    [cf. US Black bread money (Major); cf. BDNE I bread idem] n. money (street talk): 1974 (King 26). (Black)
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  • bread biscuit
    [cf. Sra. bredeboeskoetoe biscuit from bread WST; US dial. South bread biscuit ADD, Black biscuit bread (Dillard 1977:103); perhaps to
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  • bread
    [Car.; OED, a /oaf; a roll obs. → 1643] n. I. a loaf of bread; 1918 De nex' boy asked
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  • braziletto
    See BRASSLITER.
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  • brazen girl (potato)
    /breyzan gyal/ [etym?] n. a variety of sweet potato. (Andros, Nassau)
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  • brazen
    [Krio idem (Hancock p.c.); OED, shame-less] adj. (of girls) sexually precocious; promiscuous: These little girls too brazen—stead of doing the
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  • brawn
    /brohn/ n. 1. [W3 calloused skin obs.; OED idem not obs.] calloused skin on the foot. (Mayag.) 2. [OED flesh
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  • brass-wood
    [DAE idem, no sp.] n. a shrub, Anastraphia northropiana: 1905 (Shattuck 266). (White)
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  • brassly
    See BASSLY.
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  • brassliter
    /braslíyta/ [cf. Jam. /brazilíta/ D.TE; cf. OED braziletto and 17th century brasiletta from Sp., Port. brasilete Jamaica wood, diminutive of
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