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  • tie-y
    /tayiy/ [cf. TIE UP, TARTY] adj. 1. (of fruit) tart, astringent; causing the mouth to pucker: Sea grapes too tie-y.
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  • tie (up)
    [DJE pursed, tight-drawn; Trin. idem (Winer); cf. Gul. "Tie up 'e mout'...held his... speech" (Gonzales 1922:333); cf. TIE-TONGUE adj., n.]
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  • tie-tongue
    n. [cf. TIE (UP), from its tart fruit] a tree, Coccolobis diversifolia: 1920 (Britton 118). cf. PIGEON PLUM <Exuma, Inagua>
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  • tie-tongue
    adj. [Car.; cf. OED tongue-tied and US dial. South tie-tongued ADD] having defective speech: He tie-tongue bad, na. You can't
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  • tie somebody loose
    [also US dial. Mid ADD, Bermuda (Parsons 1925:264)] phr. to untie a person: I had to shout tell him tie
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  • ti-es
    /táy es/ [etym. uncertain, but cf. TEE-ESSIE the MAMMEE SAPOTA tree or its fruit (Calocarpurn rnamosum)] n. a plant, Lucuma
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  • tider wave
    /táyda weyv/ [from reanalysis of vocalic /-I/ in tidal as -er agent suffix] n. tidal wave: We had a tider
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  • tide low
     [cf. OED in low water impoverished; cf. DRY 4] phr. There is not enough money right, now.
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  • tickning
     [cf, OED ticking material for making bedticks (pillow or mattress covers), taken as a stem + -ing; cf. FISHNING ]
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  • tickler
     [cf. TICKLE + -er agent suffix] n. a long staff with a wire probe used to prod fish or lobster
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