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  • yiddy
    [cf. DJE yiti idem; W3 itty-bitty tiny (prob. from baby talk for little bit)] adj. little: 1918 I only p'int
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  • yeye
    /yay/ [Atlantic (Hancock 1969:60); cf. OED yie eye abs. →16th century; "by palatalization of initial vowel: cf. Engl., Scots, US
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  • yet
    [cf. OED not yet still not] adv. still: 1918 An' he went, an' he meet no rabbit yet (Parsons 11),
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  • yesterday-day-before
    adv, phr. the day before yesterday: 1918 Yesterday day befo' b'o' Long-Tus' (Parsons 143). (Gen.)
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  • yerry
    [Atlantic (Hancock 1969:38); cf. Brit. dial. North, West year hear (EDD) + -EE, pidgin suf- fix] v., Obs. to hear:
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  • yellow-wing jack
    (Black); yellow-fin jack (Eleu.) n. a fish, probably Caranx hippos.
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  • yellow-wing
    [cf. WING I fin] n. a fish, a variety of grunt (Haemulon sp.). (Mayag.)
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  • yellow vine
    n. 1. a plant, Urechites lutea, with a twining stem and a yellow flower: 1971 (Rabley 9). 2. a parasitic
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  • yellow-tail stripe
    n. a style of plaiting broad strips of light and dark STRAW1 together to form a pat-tern of dashes (Bannister
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  • yellow tail snapper
    n. 1.a fish, Ocyurus chrysurus: 1968 (Böhlke 358). = YELLOW-TAIL (Eleu.) 2. [Car.] another fish, Messoprian chrysurus: The yellow-tail has
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