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  • dooder
    /dúwda/ [pl. dooders; cf. DOADUS] n. a woman's breast. (Andros, Long, White)
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  • don't-care, don't-care-'f-I, donkeyfy
    dóhngki(fay)/ [cf. Atlantic don't-care casual (Hancock 1969: 44); cf. Sra. donkedonke unconcerned WST, Bajan dontcarish (Collymore 40), Guy. doan-kay-damn (Rickford
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  • don't
    [Car.; cf. US Black don't supposed to, don't got, etc.; also "We don' on nat chapter" (Loman 1967:94); an invariant
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  • donkey years
    ; donkey days [cf. YEARS ear; a pun on the long ears of donkeys and the idiom LONG YEARS; the
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  • donkey weed
    [DJE idem "like thyme, good for tea"] n. a plant used as a medicine for foot sores by drinking or
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  • donkey thistle
    n. a plant, Argemone mexicana, with oragne or yellow flowers: 1920 (Britton 145). =THISTLE
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  • done-grow
    [completive DONE + grow] adj.  short of stature; runty: He twenty-nine an' four foot nine, so errybody say he done-grow
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  • done-done
    [completive DONE + DONE v. 3] adj. overcooked: This fish taste stink. It mussy done-done (Nassau).
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  • done
    /don/ preverbal marker. [Atlantic; this form probably derives from an African completive marker such as Mandingo tun (Dalby 1972:180) converging
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  • doll bush
    n. a shrub, Fagara flava: 1905 (Shattuck 256). cf. SATINWOOD
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