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  • bungy
    See BOUNGY
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  • bunday
    /bondéy/ [etym. uncertain; Crowley (1966:20) suggests Port. bom dia good day, or Fr. bon Dieu the good Lord; S. Norton
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  • bunch
    [W Car.] n. a banana stem with nine or more HANDS or clusters. (Gen.)
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  • bun-bun
    [Atlantic; BUN + reduplication] n. burnt food on the bottom of the pot (considered a delicacy). = POTCAKE I, SWINGE
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  • bun
    /bon/ [cf. Cam. bɔ:n-am to roast CCD, US Black burn to cook food (Major)] v. to fry (not necessarily to
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  • bump
    v. [W3 bump breast] to begin to develop breasts: She bumpin'. (Black) bump up phr. I. (of peanuts and potatoes)
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  • bump
    n. [W3, a swelling of tissue usually resulting from a bump; cf. Brit. colloq. bumps acne] a swelling caused by
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  • bumble-fly
    [cf. BOOMBA FLY, influence by bumble, to buzz, as a fly OED] n. an insect (sp?) resembling a gnat which
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  • bully rim
    n. the circular wire frame which supports the BULLY NET: You hang the bully-rim on the staff (Andros). 
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  • bully (net)
    [cf. Gul. "net (bullet all aroun')" (Parsons 1923:167) from use of lead shot to weight net?; cf. also OED bully
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