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  • wash-off
    [US dial. South, a bath ADD.] n. a bath with a wash cloth without a tub or shower: Catch a
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  • wash-hand
     [cf. OED wash-hand stand wash stand] n. the act of washing the hands: I could have a wash-hand? [i.e. May
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  • washerwoman
    [possibly from use as soap substitute; cf. WOMAN WASH BUSH] n. a plant, Achyranthes repens: 1920 (Britton 127). (Exuma)
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  • was
    INV Car.; cf. US dial. "I wasn't done it" ADD; from was in past progressive, but influenced semantically by African
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  • war wife
    n. an Englishwoman, often with children, evacuated to the Bahamas for safety during World War II (Dupuch p.c.). cf. VACKY 1371.
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  • warm belly
    [cf. OED warm eager, impatient + Cr. belly as seat of emotions, e.g. MCC, Krio good-belly goodheartedness KED] adj. greedy.
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  • waposta
    /wapówsta/ [cf. OED impostume a purulent swelling obs? →1842] n. a large boil. (Andros)
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  • want
    [OED idem obs. -1684; also US NYC dial.] v., absolute to desire: 1966 The boy want. (Crowley 121). (Gen.)
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  • wampus, wampers
    See WUMPERS.
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  • wamper
     [possibly from vampire, alluding to its sucking of blood] n. a mosquito. (San Sal.)
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