electronic Dictionary of Bahamian English v3 - Definitions starting with C

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cup grease
n. lard from meat drippings, kept in a cup: 1973 He walked around naked, slicked down in cup grease (Missick
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cup
n. sweet, flavored water frozen in a small paper cup with a stick: Dis summer you could make plenty money sellin'
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cunny-hole
[cf. OEDS II cunny, prob. dim, of cunt but cf. cony] n. (vulgar) vulva. (Black)
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cultivator
[W Car.] n. a small farmer raising market crops. (Black)
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Cuffey
/kófi/ Coffee /kóhfi/ [cf. US Black Cuffee black person (Major); US dial. South idem (familiar or humorous) ADD; DJE, from Twi Kòfi
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cudgniy
See SCONCHER KNEE
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cud
[cf. US dial. South lose the cud: when a cow stops ruminating she is said to have lost her cud. "Not a
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cuckoo soup
[perhaps related to cuckoo owl, also associated with obeah; cf. Gul. "Conjure is another name for hoodoo, voodoo, coocoo" (Writers' Program 1940:97); cf.
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cuckoo-rookoo
/kùwku rukúw/ [Atlantic; cf. kukukuku in Gul. (Parsons 1923:78), US Black (Fauset 1927:239); cf. Scots cocka-roora-koo CSD, Sp. quiquiriqui, idem (Oyedeji pc.)
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cuckoo mack-eye
/kúwkuw makáy/ (Mayag., Cat); coco-macock /kówkow makák/ (Inagua) [Car.; cf. DJE coco-macca /kaomaka...kitkumakyak/ from Car. Sp. coco macaco or Fr. coca-macaque,
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