Content in Definitions starting with B

Page 9 out of 63 Pages

• buck (up)

  [Atlantic; OED dial. & US (?corruption of butt); possible convergence with Wolof baŋ ke to collide with (Turner 1949:60)] v.
  641 views
• buckra sweet potato

  [cf. BUCKRA and DJE backra yam a fine or delicate variety of yam] n. a variety of sweet potato with
  495 views
• buckra

  /bókra/ [Atlantic; US dial. South idem ADD; cf. lbo, Efik mbakára white man; he who surrounds or governs (Turner 1949:191)]
  471 views
• bucko

  n. important man: He was one of the buckos in there next to the manager (White)
  419 views
• buckly whitey

  [from lignum vitae] n. 1. the lignum vitae tree, Guiacum officinale. = LIGDUM VITAE, NIGLUM VITAE (Andros) 2. a tree
  507 views
• buck

  [OED, a gay dashing fellow ... used also as a form of familiar address ... vulgarly applied to a nego
  447 views
• bubby

  /bóbi/ [Atlantic; OED obs. or dial. 1725; cf. also Scots bubbies CSD, W3 bobby, booby idem] n. 1. a woman's
  550 views
• bubu

  See BOOBOO.
  377 views
• bubba

  /bóba/ [Gul. idem (Gonzales 1922:291) or younger brother; cf. Krio bobo little boy (Hancock p.c.); cf. US dial. bub, bubby,
  560 views
• brush

  See TAR BRUSH.
  445 views

• ⇤
  
• ←
  
• 1
  
• 2
  
• 3
  
• 4
  
• …
  
• 7
  
• 8
  
• 9
  
• 10
  
• 11
  
• …
  
• 60
  
• 61
  
• 62
  
• 63
  
• →
  
• ⇥

one category up