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  • beside: get beside yourself with somebody
    [Car.] phr. to become insubordinate; to forget one's place: Child: "You can't tell me what to do!" Adult: "You want
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  • Bermooda
    /bamúwda/ [named after the Sp. explorer Bermudez /bermtiwdhes/ but Bermudians call themselves 'Mudians /myúwjanz/ (Ayres 1933 :3)] n. Bermuda: ca.
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  • ber
    See B'.
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  • be on
    [cf. W Car. de pan idem] v. phr, to be engaged in an activity: 1966 The man been one day
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  • Benson line
    [cf. Plimsoll line load-line markings on a cargo ship W3] n. (in playing marbles) the line behind which one must
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  • benny cake
    n. sesame seed candy: 1934 Benny cake: made from seeds and boiled sugar cane, is allowed to harden and is
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  • benny
    [Atlantic; from Wolof bεnε., Bambara bene sesame (Turner 1949:191)] n. the sesame seed: 1835 Sesamum indicum ... Benny (Journal 28).
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  • Ben Giant
    [perhaps from bent-joint (Cassidy p.c.); cf. DJE jointer bush . . . black giant... /jaint/ joint] n. a kind of
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  • below
    See RICE BELOW.
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  • belong
    (White); blonks (Black) v. 1. [cf. Krio blant idem KED, Gul. blonx belong (Gonzales 1922: 290); from Brit. dial. North,
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