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  • bight
    [MCC idem; OED, an indentation in a coastline ... a bay, but cf. DAE quot. "Two small bights of land
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  • biggy
    [from big, but cf. -RE, -Y suffix and Sra. bigi idem WST] adj., Obs? big: 1895 See dis biggy, biggy
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  • big-gut
    n. a swelling of the belly from malnutrition. = BELLY-SWELL, GAS GUT, SWELL-BELLY (Black)
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  • biggity, bigge(r)ty
    /bígati/ [Gul. idem (Rhame 1933:41); cf. Scots biggit wealthy CSD; US dial. South, Mid. biggity "prob. big + -ity quality,
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  • Big Georgie Lackwood
    [cf. BIG GEORGE] n. a variety of sweet potato. (Mayag.)
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  • Big George
    n. a variety of bitter cassava used to make cassava bread after grating and wringing out the poisonous juice. (Andros,
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  • big-foot
    [cf. Sra. bigi-foetoe elephantiasis WST, and possible influence from an earlier form parallel to Jam. bufutu big, clumsy DJE or
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  • big finger
    [Atlantic; "by analogy with big toe or contrast with little finger" DJE] n. the thumb: I cut my big finger
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  • big-eye stargazer
    [from appearance of staring upwards] n. a fish, Dactyloscopus crossotus: 1968 (Böhlke 496). (Black)
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  • big-eye porgie
    n. a fish, a kind of porgie (sp?): 1936 A big-eye porgie on won side uv 'im an' wun lobster
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