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  • bomb-chest
    /bohm ches/; boom-chest /burn ches/ [probably from collision with chest] n. a children's game in which a handful of pebbles
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  • bomb
    /bohm/; boum /bum/ [cf. Haitian bobo from Fr, bonbon confection] n. a kind of coco-nut tart: Coconut bomb: 30 cents
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  • bold
    [Car.; OED, audacious] adj. aggressively rude. (Gen.)
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  • boil your pot
    [cf. US dial. South boil the pot to cook a vegetable dinner WEA] phr. to be financially able to eat:
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  • Boiling hole
    [cf. BOIL 2] n. a deep hole in the sea floor with surging fresh water: 1910 The boiling hole was
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  • boil fish
    [boil could derive from boiled (cf. FRY FISH) or be a n. adjunct (cf. BOIL 1)] n. a Bahamian dish,
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  • boil
    /boyl, borl/ n. 1. [W Car.; cf. OED, that which is boiled 1755; Scots, meat for boiling CSD] a stew;
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  • bogus
    n. [cf. colloq. Brit. boagy, , Scots boakie, US booger idem] nasal mucus. = BOO, BOOBOO, BOOBY, BOOGIE (Exuma)
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  • bogus
    /bówgas/ adj. [cf. US Black bogart a bully; a physically aggressive person (Claerbaut)] aggressive; outspoken. (Nassau)
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  • Bogue, Boague
    /bowg/ [ W Car.; cf. Brit: dial. North bog /bowg/ + Sp. boca river mouth DJE, also US dial. South
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