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  • bay bean
    bay bean n. a plant, Canavalia bahamensis, which grows on the seashore and bears reddish-brown beans: 1885 The bay bean
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  • bay arrangia
    /bey aréynja/ [from BAY GERINA by metathesis?] n. a vine (sp?) with small leaves. cf. BAY GERANIUM (Eleu.)
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  • bay
    [Car.; from bay coastal recess, by semantic broadening possibly influenced by Port. beira shore] n. 1. beach: 1708 Amber-Greece is
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  • batty-hole
    [Belize idem (Dayley 1979); from BATTY + hole] n. anus. (Nassau)
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  • batty
    /báti/ [Atlantic; from bottom buttocks] n. the buttocks. (Eleu., Inagua)
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  • batter
    n. [cf. BATTER (UP)] a board used to batten up windows before a hurricane: the batters or shutters. (Nassau, San Sal.)
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  • bath suit
    /baht suwt/ [also Vir. (Roy 1974) and Belize idem (Dayley 1979] n. a bathing suit. (Nassau)
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  • bathe your skin
    /beyd yu skin/ [Car.; cf. SKIN as quasi reflexive] v. phr. to take a bath or shower: 1918 My ol'
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  • bateau
    /bátow/ [Car.; from Fr. bateau boat] n. 1. a kind of flat-bottomed boat. (Gen.)  2. any small boat, up to about
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  • batata
    /bateyta/ [cf. Sp., Port. batata sweet potato (from Taino)] n. potato. (Gen.)
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