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  • water bottom
    [W Car.] n. the ocean floor. (Black)
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  • water banana
    [etym. uncertain, but cf. DJE white-house banana] n. a variety of banana. = HOG BANANA
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  • watch your stitches, watch your ass
    [cf. DHS watch out idem; cf. ASS as quasi reflexive] v. phr. to be careful: 1973 Dey better watch their
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  • watch
    [cf. Krio wachpοt 'watch pot' to sit around a pot on the fire, hoping to receive some of the meal
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  • waste moon
    [cf. OED waste (of the moon) to wane obs.→ 1600; but see quot. for folk etym.] n. the waning moon:
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  • waste
    [by passivization] vi. 1. to be wasted; to go to waste: 1925 Better for belly burst than good victual waste
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  • wass, wasses
    /wahs, wahsiz/ [cf. W Car, was wasp; cf. US dial. South wassies wasps ADD; from simplification of final consonant cluster
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  • wash your skin
    [Atlantic; cf. SKIN body, or quasi reflexive] v. phr. to wash (oneself or another): 1918 Mommer, come wash my skin
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  • washwoman's bush
    [possibly from use as soap substitute] n. a prickly shrub, Datura stramonium: 1920 (Britton 386). = THORNY APPLE cf. WOMAN
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  • wash-tub bass
    [cf. TIN-TUB BASS for description] n. a musical instrument. (Eleu.) cf.
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