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  • yard toilet
    n. a outside privy: Yinna so bad off till y'all got yard toilet (Nassau). (Gen.)
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  • yard boy
    [for working in the YARD] n. work clothes: They mussy dead poor, cause I see her does wear her yard
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  • youth boy
    [ Atlantic (Collymore,CCD); also US dial. South (Brown 1976:36); cf. also Haitian gason lakou (lit. boy + yard) idem TDKF]
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  • yard
    [Car.; OED, a barnyard; an enclosed area with grass and trees adjoining a house (now dial. and US)] n. 1.
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  • Yankee
    [OED, applied occasionally to a ship) n. a cargo vessel from the United States: 1977 American cargo vessels, known as
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  • yaller
    /yála/ adj. 1. [Atlantic (Hancock 1969:46); a dial, pronunciation in Brit. (EDD) and US (ADD)] yellow: 1936 D' yeller house
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  • yam
    See NYAM
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  • yakee
    [cf. AKEE] n. a fruit, probably AKEE : 1966 Put on the boiler, boil a little yakee (Crowley 69). (Nassau) 39.
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  • Yabby
    [probably from RABBY ] n. 1. a folk-tale character: 1895 O, B' Yabby, knock dis ting fah me (Edwards 88).
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  • ya, yare, yere
    [Atlantic (Hancock 1969:64); from here by regular loss of /h/ and /r/; the /y/ is found in 17th century Brit.
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