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  • whistling bean
    [from the sound of its pods rat-tling in the wind] n. a tree, Albizia lebbeck: 1920 (Britton 157). = MUSIC
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  • whirlwind
    (Eleu.), whirlwind puff (Andros) [cf. OED whirlwind a rotating wind, often violent and destructive; whirl-puff idem obs.→ 1637] n. a
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  • whippry
    /wípri/, whipper [W Car.; cf. OED whip-ray and whipperee US1 n. a fish, the manta ray (Manta birostris): 1941 They
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  • whips
    [OED whip an object resembling a whip] n. the antenna of a crawfish: When you look through the glass, you
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  • whip
    [etym. uncertain; cf. US Black nail a male person (Claerbaut)] n. (among young males) a good friend: my whip (Exuma).
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  • whilks
    [Car.; OED whilk variant of whelk] n. sing. or pl. an edible shellfish, Cittarium pica, resemb-ling a small snail: 1782
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  • while:a good little while
    [cf. OED good qualifying a definite statement of quantity, to indicate an amount not less, and usually greater, than what
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  • which side
    [Pan-Creole; cf. Cr. Fr. ki kote (lit. which side) where? (Taylor 1977:171; Baker 1972:124); probably an African calque; see SIDE,
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  • which part
    [Car.; cf, also Krio uspat idem (Han-cock 1969:66); cf. Port. Cr. ke šitu (lit, what place) idem (Ivens Ferraz 1979:72);
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  • whichin
    [also Guy. (Hancock 1969:67), Gul. (Gonzales 1922:338)] pron. which. (Black)
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