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  • conversate
    [W Car.; back-formation from conversation] v. to converse; to have a conversation; You can't push the trolley because someone would
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  • convenient
    [from convenience, construed as a plural] n. convenience: 1918 The were houses and gardens and all kinds of convenient (Parsons
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  • contract time
    [from work contract] n. the 1940's, when many Bahamians went to the US to pick crops as migrant laborers. (Eleu.)
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  • contes
    /kantés/ [perhaps influenced by stress pattern of verb] n. a contest: 1966 (Crowley 101). (Black)
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  • consumpted
    [cf. Scots consumpt consumption OED] adj. tubercular; having tuberculosis: He was so consumpted till when he cough, people used to
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  • constructor
    [Belize idem (Young); influence by construction] n. the constrictor (snake). (Eleu.)
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  • conky-bine
    [cf. Car. concubine lover (man or woman) DJE; Gul. conkywine idem (Gonzales 1922: 293); cf. OED concubine as applied to
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  • conky, conchy, conchi
    /kóhngki/ n. 1. Obs? [cf. CONCH + -y (diminutive)] a white or near-white Bahamian: 1929 Conchies ... (half-breed white people
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  • conk
    [cf. US Black conk pomade for the hair (Major); DAS conk (of Negroes) to apply a mix­ture containing lye to
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  • conjessy (mouth)
     [Pan-Creole; cf. Trin. Cr. Fr. congosal quarrelsome (Thomas 32), DJE kon­kongsa deceitful (person) from Twi nkonkonsá deceit, hypocrisy] n. a prying
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