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  • wine purp
     [cf. OED wind pipe, with the alternate pronunciation /waynd payp/, via simplification of the final consonant cluster of /waynd/ and hypercorrection
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  • Windward Islands
    [cf. the prevailing Bah. winds out of the southeast; elsewhere the term refers to the southern group of the Lesser Antilles] n.
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  • winding bakimba
    See BAKIMBA
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  • wind at somebody
    /wayn/ [cf. WIND 1] v. to gyrate the hips at somebody insultingly or provocatively. cf. BAKIMBA (Andros)
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  • wind
    /win(d)/ [OED, to deprive of breath] v. to let the air out of a deepwater fish: When you pull it
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  • wind
    /wayn/ [Car.; OED wind to writhe, wriggle obs. except dial.] v. 1. to gyrate the hips provoc­atively in walking or
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  • wine
     [W Car.; cf. DSS wine dark navy rum, nauti­cal] n. rum. (Black)
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  • wild yam
    [W Car., various sp.; from their edible tubers) n. a plant: 1889 Rajania hastata (Gardner 357); Cissus sicyoides (ibid 373). 1905 Mauran­dia
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  • wild wormwood
    [DJE idem] n. a plant, Parrhenium hysterophorus: 1889 (Gardner 388).= POUND-CAKE BUSH 1, WHITE-HEAD 2 (Exuma)
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  • wild white sage
    n. a plant, Lantana involucrata, used medicinally: 1978 (Higgs 23). = BIG SAGE, WHITE SAGE, WILD SAGE (Black)
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