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  • claps: the claps
    [cf. OED clap obs. in polite use, gonorrhoea: "Claps at Court" 1645] n. gonorrhea (considered vuglar): He get the claps
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  • clampsy
    [cf. OED clabber milk naturally curdled] adj. sour (of milk, cream). = CLODDY (Andros, San Sal.)
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  • clampers
    (Mayag.); clamps (Gen.) [cf. Brit. dial. clamper a clamp OED; Scots claams a shoemaker's pincers CSD] n. a crab's large
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  • clad
    See CLOD.
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  • city boy, city girl
    n. a native of Nassau. cf. ISLAND BOY (Black)
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  • cipher
    /sáyfa/ [cf. Krio sayfa an insignificant or useless person KED; cf. also Krio, Guy. sayfa think (Hancock 1969: 42); cf.
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  • cinnecord
    /sínikohd/ (Gen.); Cindy Carter /síni káhta/ (Mayag.) [etym?] n. a tree, Acacia choriophylla, with small yellow flowers and thick brown
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  • Cigillian
    /sigíliyan/ [cf. Cigaoo, although the popular derivation is from St. Georgian (Byrle Patterson p.c.)] n. the nickname for a native
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  • Cigatoo, Ciguatea
    [cf. Taino cigua sea snail (Taylor 1977:21); Cuban Sp. idem WFF] n. Obs. a former name of Eleuthera, a major
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  • churchyard rose
    n. a plant, Vinca rosea (Rabley p.c.); Churchyard rose. You go in the churchyard and that's the white one and
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