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  • dog
    See DUG.
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  • does
    /doz, az, z/ [Car.; this form probably derives from an African habitual marker such as Ewe a WES or Yoruba
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  • dodge
    [W Car., OED, to follow stealthily, and with shifts to avoid discovery] v. to duck out of sight: 1918  When
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  • docy
    /dówsi/ [etym] n. a woman's breast. = DOADUS, DOODER
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  • doctor snake
    [etym?] n. a snake: Doctor snake will pitch on you.  (Andros, Crooked)
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  • doctor shop
    [Car,;cf. Brit. dial. North doctor shop a surgery EDD] n. a pharmacy: 1978 Missa George Cole doctor shop (Dupuch 31).
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  • doctor shark
    [perhaps by association with nurse] n. a variety of NUSS.
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  • doctor's gum
    [DJE idem; from medicinal use] n. a tree, Rhus metopium, with acrid sap: 1889 (Gardner 374). = FALSE HOG GUM
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  • doctor medicine
    [Krio idem KED] n. remedies prescribed by a licensed physician, as opposed to BUSH MEDICINE: 1978 It is an old
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  • doctor fly
    [W Car.; cf. Brit. dial. North doctor horse-fly "Children used to catch a cleg and hold it on the back
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