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  • wood-packer
    [cf. /e, a/ alternation in DREG drag, DRAGS dregs, etc.] n, the woodpecker. cf. WOODY-PECKER (Eleu., Andros)
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  • wood-gather
    [cf. OED wool-gathering indulging in wandering thoughts or idle fancies; influenced by wood] adj. absentminded: My head get all wood-gather
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  • wood dove
    /wúdav, wúdow/ [OED different sp.; cf. Scots wood-doo stock dove CSD] n. a large dove, Zenaida amabilis: 1880 (Cory 138).
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  • Wong
    [from a Chinese surname well known in Nassau] n. a Chinese person (slang). cf. LEEKIE (Black)
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  • woman wash bush
    [from its use as a soap substitute] n. a shrub (sp?). cf. WASHWOMAN'S BUSH (Mayag.)
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  • woman's tongue
    [Car.; DJE 1909→] n. a tree, Albizzia lebbek: 1880 Trees ... [with] seeds like the bean, in pods... about eight
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  • woman head: have woman head on her body
    phr. (of a woman) to have mature judment: 1974 Her pa een no good and she ma een gat no
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  • woman
    /wúman, úman/ [Pan-Creole; cf. Port. cf. bwe mwala cow (from Port. bol ox + mulher woman) (Ivens Ferraz 1979: 60),
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  • wobble
    [OED to move from side to side] v. to walk with a limp. (Eleu., Exuma)
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  • with pickin
    [cf. with child and PICKIN', PICKANINNY child] phr. pregnant (old term). (Eleu.)
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