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  • comical
    [W. Car.; Gui. idem (Gonzales 1922:293); cf. OED dial, peculiar, difficult to deal with] adj. fussy; cantankerous: Everybody is be
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  • comforter
     [DJE idem] adj. more comfortable. (Black)
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  • come before
    [cf. come before a judge] v. phr. to concern (usually after a negative): This don't come before you. (Black)
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  • come back
    v. phr. to have a bowel movement: My child have tight bowels; he can't come back (Nassau). (Black)
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  • come
    v. 1. [Atlantic; DJE "from become or perh. come as abbr. of come to be" but cf. OED come 24a
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  • combruction
    [cf. DHS, Vir. ruction uproar (Roy 1974)] n. commotion. (Gen.)
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  • coloured
    [OED, having skin other than "white"; esp. wholly or partly of the negro or "coloured" race; in the US this
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  • comallomy
    See GUM ELEMI
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  • colly
    n. 1. also pot colly [OED idem obs. exc. dial.; also Bermuda, US dial. South ADD] soot. (Gen.) 2. [cf.
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  • Collins Wall
    [originally the western boundary of the estate of Tom Collins, for whom the drink is named] n. the name of
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