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  • beg
    /beg, beyg/ [W Car.; cf. OED to beg bread] v.t. to ask (a person for a thing): 1918 His wife
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  • before-time, before-days
    [Car.; cf. OED before-times adv..- 1647] n. an earlier period: Before-time was better than now (Nassau). (Black) —adj. pertaining to
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  • been gone
    [cf. US Black gone crazy (Major); OED gone of persons ... undone] adj. phr. insane: He been gone a long
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  • been an'
    [Gul. idem (Parsons 1923:96); cf. BEEN] preverbal marker of anterior time: 1966 He been an eat the three pumpkins (Crowley
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  • been-a
    [Car.; from BEEN 1 + A1]  preverbal marker of anterior progressive, Obs? 1918 You see what I bin a-do? (Parsons
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  • been, bin
    /bin/ [Atlantic; form derived from Brit. dial. South been and marking past EDD, but its semantic and syntactic source probably
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  • beeg
    /biyg/ [cf. Jam. "/ii/ can replace /i/: /iin/ in, /hiiich/ itch" DJE:xlv; perhaps a survival of 17th century Eng. or
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  • beefwood
    [OED, DJE different sp., from the reddish color] n. a tree, variously identified: 1889 Casuarina equisetifolia ... beefwood (Gardner 404).
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  • beef-of-the-sea
    [in reference to its meat] n. the loggerhead turtle. cf. MUTTON-OF-THE-SEA, VEAL-OF-THE-SEA (Adelaide)
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  • beef bush
    [DJE different sp.; from the reddish color of its wood] n. a shrub: 1910 Beef bush . . . Tecoma
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