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  • buggy
    (Crooked); wheel buggy (Cat) [OED buggy a light one-horse vehicle but cf. DAS Irish (baby) buggy a wheelbarrow] n. a
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  • bugaman, buggaman
    See BOUGAMAN
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  • buffy
    [etym?; cf. TOFFY idem] n. dried coconut. (Andros)
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  • buffalo
    /bófala/ [convergence with the seman-tically unrelated Eng. word seems coincidental; the phonological shape probably derives from an African form such
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  • bud pepper
    See BIRD PEPPER
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  • bud grass
    [from BIRD GRASS, BUR GRASS] n. 1. bird grass, Cenchrus echinatus, a grass with burs (older pronunciation). = BIRD GRASS,
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  • bud
    v. [OED, to begin to grow] to begin to develop breasts: She buddin'. cf. SPUDDIN' (POTATOES) (Exuma)
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  • bud (2)
     [W3, something likened to a bud, esp. in shape] n. an individual clump of hair forming a braid (usually in
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  • bud (1)
    /bod/ [cf. Guy. bud-bud, birdie penis of a small boy (Rickford 1976:8); cf. Common Bantu *-bódò penis (Carter); note also
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  • buck-up
    [cf. BUCK (UP)] n. (of cars, etc.). a collision (Gen.) all buck-up go: anything goes: 1936 (Dupuch 121). All that
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