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  • tease-tease
    [Car.; from tease by reduplication to suggest repetition, an African feature as in Mandinka kée-kee keep on doing, from ke
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  • tear-up
    [Car.; from torn up, with stem replacing past participle] adj. (of clothes) torn; ragged: 1895 Her husban' come wid a whole
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  • tear-coat
    [from the damage done by its thorns] n. a shrub: 1977 Securinega acidoron (Patterson 19); Pithecellobium unguiscati or P. bahamense
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  • tea
    n. 1. [Car.; cf. LA Fr. dite kako (du the' cacao) hot cocoa DJE] any hot drink: 1976 Any hot
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  • taw, tar
    /tah/ [OED, W3 idem; US Black idem (Walker 1956:346); cf. 1811 DVT "taw a school boy's game, played with... marbles"]
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  • taste
    : I'll slap the taste right out of your mouth phr. a threat of a vigorous blow to the mouth
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  • tassel plant
    n.  a plant, Alvaradoa amorphoides: 1889 (Gardner 371). = WILD MADEIRA <Eleu.>
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  • task
    /tas/ [Pan-Creole; cf. Réunion Cr. Fr. tas idem (Chaudenson 1974:193); cf; DAE, an amount of work formerly demanded of a
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  • tarty
    ; tatty ; tarry [cf. Belize taatish tasting not quite right (Dayley); cf. OED tart sour and -y
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  • tarpum
    /táhpam/ ; tarpoon /tahpúwn/ [cf. DJE tarpum "prob. from Miskito tapam"] n. the tarpon, a large fish (Megalops atlanticus):
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