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  • bog, borg
    /bohg/ [Gul. idem (Writers' Program 1940:62); cf. OED bog v.i. to sink and stick in a bog obs.  → 1800]
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  • bodooda
    /badúwda/ [etym?] n. a small red and black land crab. = JUNJO, SHAGGO (Mayag.)
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  • bobo: go bobo
    [cf. BOSTON] phr. to get nearly all the tricks in playing whist: We gone bobo on them—they didn't even get
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  • bobo
    /bówbow/ [cf. Atlantic bumbo idem; "cf. Temne a-bómbo labia, Zulu -búmbu pubic region, Xhosa -bhombo vagina" (Hancock 1969:71), Kongo bumbu
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  • bob
    [cf. OED, a rounded mass at the end of a rod, etc.; a knob obs. → 1659] n. a round lump,
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  • boat lily
    n. a plant, Rhoeo discolor: 1920 (Britton 68). = PURPLE LILY
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  • boassy
    (Black); boasty (White) [Car.; cf. OED boasty boastful obs.] adj. boastful; conceited.
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  • boassin
    /bówsin/ (Gen.); boastin' /bówstin/ (Berry) [Atlantic; cf. Krio bosin hernia KED; Guy. son swollen testicles (Rickford 1976:8); Jam. buosan "(cf.
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  • boarwood, boa wood
     n. a tree, Diospyros crassinervis, with round black fruit: 1920 (Britton 326). = FEATHERBED, OLD MAN 2 (San Sal.)
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  • boar top, bow top
    [cf. TOP palm] n. a variety of palm tree, Coccothrinax sp.: To make a broom: look for about ten leaves
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