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  • bad hair
    [Car.; cf. Car. Sp. "pelo calificado de malo de negro" (Alvarez Nazario 1974:358); from obsolete value system in which things
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  • badge
    /baj/ n. I. [from barge /bahj/?] a sea pen for keeping conchs alive.= CRAWL (Grand Bah., San Sal.) 2. [from
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  • bad feeling(s)
    [Car.] n. 1. nausea, especially with a headache and cold sweat and general malaise. 2. the bad feeling(s) morning sickness:
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  • bad enough
    /bad nof/ [Car.] adj. phr. dangerously ill: From what I see she bad 'nuff—she was just coughing and sneezing up
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  • badder
    [Car.; cf. BAD; OED, obs. comparative of bad, US dial. idem ADD] adj. worse: He badder dan you, boy (Nassau).
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  • bad blood
    n. 1. [from association with the Wasser-man blood test] syphilis (Dupuch p.c.) 2. [cf. Ibo mea jonjo (lit. blood bad)
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  • bad-belly
    [Car.; a calque; cf. Yoruba inu mi kò dara (lit. belly my not good) My stomach is upset (Oyedeji p.c.)] n.
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  • bad-behaving
    adj. of children: unruly. (Black)
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  • bad-bad
    [W Car.; from bad + reduplication cf. Yoruba burukuburuku (lit. bad-bad) very bad(ly) (Oyedeji p.c.)] adj. very bad; of the
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  • bad
    adv. [Atlantic; an African calque: cf. Mandingo A ka nyi ko-jugu (lit. It is good badly) It is very good
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