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  • calaboose, calaboosh
    /kálabuws(h)/ [Trim idem (Winer); OED Negro French of Louisiana cala­bouse jail (also Haitian) from Sp. calabozo dungeon; cf. W3 idem dial.] n.
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  • cake
    /keyk/ [cf. DIE keke idem, also KUNKA ; cf. DAS cake female genitalia (Negro); US Black "sexual double entendre of.
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  • Caicos
    /kéykas, káykas/ [perhaps from Sp. icaco from Taino hikako cocoplum (see quot.)] n. several islands to the southeast of the
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  • caca
    /káka/ n. [Pan-Creole; "Kaka or variants of it occurs in English, Dutch, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Polish, etc." (Hancock 1969:71); also
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  • caboose
    [W Car.; OED, fireplace on a vessel; DARE, cookhouse on a vessel ... any small, cramped building] n. 1. a
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  • Cable Beach
    [terminus of the telegraph cable from Florida installed in 1904] n. an area west of Nassau.
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  • cabbage palm
    [OED 1772-84 (pub. 1790); DAB 1835 →] n. the fan-leaved palm, Sabal palmetto, or others with edible terminal buds: 1783-84
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  • cabbage
    [Car.; OED 1638 → DJE 1725 →; DAB 1879 →] n. the tender terminal bud of palm trees, eaten as
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