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  • doctor fish
    [Car.; cf. Sra. datra idem WST, LA Fr. chirurgien idem (Jourdain 33); DJE "from the pair of sharp spines (likened
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  • doctor bush
    [in reference to its medicinal use] n. a plant, Plumbago scandens: 1920 (Britton 319).
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  • doctor bird
    [Car.; DJE "from the bird's dark plumage and from its habit of 'lancing' flowers with its long beak] n. the
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  • doctor
    [W CAR.] n. an OBEAH man: The doctor live next to City Market...put bottles in his tree [as a guard]
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  • doadus
    /dówdas/ ; doady /dówdi/ [etym. uncertain but cf. 1811 DVT diddleys a woman's breasts] n. sing. breast (a family word):
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  • do
    v. 1. [Atlantic, DAS idem] to harm: That bug won't do you nothing (Nassau). (Black) 2. [Car.] to harm by
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  • dividement
    [divide + -ment] n. 1. a division (into portions): 1966 make dividement of each of the food (Crowley 121). 2.
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  • dive conch
    [cf. DIVE (UP), from the downward nodding of the head; cf. LA Fr. plongè Iambi (lit. dive conch) somnoler en
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  • dive, dive up
    [Car.] v. 1. to dive into the water and bring something up: 1895 T'row de bunch o' bananas overboar' an
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  • ditty
    [OED, any composition in verse, obs.→1614; cf, also Scots ditty a story CSD] n. a story: 1895 So dat's de
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