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  • chickchanny, chickcharney
     /chikchá(h)ni/; Also chincharny, chickanny [etym. uncertain; Craton suggests Arabic shitani devil (1966:18), whence also Krio setani, shaytani spirit of evil (cf. Mandinka,
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  • chew-tobacco
    [Belize idem (Dayley 1979)] n. chewing tobacco. (Nassau)
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  • chewstick, chawstick
    [Atlantic; from the chewing of its twigs to clean the teeth] n. a shrub, Gouania domingensis: 1889 chewstick (Gardner 373);
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  • chew-bird
    n. the blue-gray gnatcatcher, Polioptila coerulea: 1960 (Bond 178). = CAT BIRD, COTTON BIRD, SPAIN-SPAIN
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  • chest-bone
    [Belize idem (Dayley 1979)] n. breast bone: When somebody's hear stops, you suppose to press down on their chest-bone (Nasau).
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  • cherry
    [Trin. idem (Winer); from the appearance of its red fruit] n. the Surinam cherry, Malpighia glabra. = JAMAICA CHERRY, NATIVE
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  • chenille bug
    /sheníyl bog/ [from Fr. or Haitian chenille caterpillar] n. the larva of an insect (sp?), a caterpillar which eats cotton
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  • cheese bush
    n. the jacaranda tree, Jacaranda coerulea;= CANCER BUSH, CLOCK BUSH, HORSE BUSH 4, WHAT O'CLOCK (Andros, White)
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  • cheers
    [cf. OED cheer shout of approbation] n. (at a fund-raising church CONCERT) rhythmic applause by the choir and congregation for a generous
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  • cheeks
    [cf. OED cheek idem] n. impertinence: Don't give me no cheeks! (Gen.)
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