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  • dismiss
    [by passivization] v. (of schools) to be dismissed. School dismiss at three o' clock (Nassau). <Black>
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  • diskiver
    [cf. kiver cover] v. to discover: 1966 They diskiver (discover) the butter they left (Crowley 83).
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  • discouraging
    [W Car] adj. discouraged. I was very discouraging when I did not pass the BJC [Bah. Junior Certificate exam] (COB).
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  • disagreeable
    [OED, not in agreement obs.→1766] adj. in disagreement: 1966 The four sons was disagreeable. None wasn't agree with how their daddy
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  • dirty
    /dóti, dóyti/ [Atlantic; DJE "dutty...fr. Twi dçtè soil, earth, clay mud; infl. by Engl. dirt, dirty"; it is unclear if
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  • dirt-house
      [W Car.; cf. Haitian kay te idem (Gaujean p.c.)] n. a house with an earthen floor. (Black)    
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  • dirt-eating
    [W Car,;US dial. South idem WEA] n. geophagy, or the habitual eating of clay from melancholia or malnutrition. <Eleu.,Mayag.>
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  • dirt
    [Car.; DJE "corrected" from dutty (soil, earth) n. soil; earth but no implication of filth: You need good black dirt
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  • dipner
    /dípna/ [cf. Brit. dial, North, Mid dip a sweet sauce, usually eaten with ouddings EDD; US dial. South idem ADD]
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  • dingy
    /dìnji/ [cf. US dial. dingy a negro ADD; US Black dinge idem (Eliason 1938:152); DHS dingy Christian a mulatto; anyone
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