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  • care: ain' care
    [W Car.; cf. Belize no kee (Dayley 1979), Jam, no kya DJE; Krio adoke no matter if KED] phr. it doesn't
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  • care, caar, cah
    /k(y)ah/ [Atlantic; probably a hypercorrection of carry by analogy with yerry hear] v. to carry: 1817 I am thankfull to heare
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  • card
    [DJE idem] n. a domino. (Black)
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  • caracas
    (Exuma); crackers (Eleu.) /k(a)rákaz/ [from maracas dried gourds containing pebbles, used as musical instruments; influenced by Caracas (Venezuela), crackers] n. dried poinciana
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  • capsize
    [Atlantic; OED, to upset, overturn (esp. on the water) . . . a sailor's expression; but cf. 1811 DVT He capsized
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  • capoonkle, kerpunkle
    /kapú(w)ngkal/, catoonkle /katú(w)ngkal/ [etym?] adj. usually capoonkle up, etc. 1. confused : Why everything so capoonkle up? (Nassau). (Black) 2.
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  • capnit
    [US dial. North idem ADD; from catnip by metathesis] n. catnip, a fragrant herb (Nepeta catarta).= WHITE CATNIP 1 (Black)
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  • caper tree
    [OED, W3 C. spinosa] n. a pod-bearing shrub, Capparis flexuosa: 1835 A bottle of Capers, produced and pickled in Nassau (Journal 40); 1977 (Patterson
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  • capable
    [OED, competent, but cf. Krio ebul: A ebul am I am a match for him KED] adj. able to cope with or
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  • cap
    [from its circular shape] n. the operculum or horny lid of the whelk or other gastropods, which closes the shell when the foot
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