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  • dust
    [cf. US dial. South dust-dark idem ADD; from dusk, with simplification of final consonant cluster to dus', "corrected" to dust]
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  • during the while
    [W Car.] conj. while. (Mayag., White)
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  • durgon
    [cf. Brit. dial. North, West durgin a stupid fellow EDD; US dial. durgen a rustic ADD] n. 1. a person
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  • duppy needle
    [DJE ideal] n. a plant, Bidens pilosa, used medicinally. = SEARCHING NEEDLE, SHEPHERD NEEDLE (Andros, Exuma)
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  • dup, duppy
    n. [Car.; cf. Bube dupe ghost DJE] a ghost: 1918 B'o' Devil come dere dat day, call(ed) one-foot dup (Parsons
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  • dunny
    [cf. dinny idem] n. female genitals. (Mayag.)
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  • duncy
    (Black); dunce (Inagua, Mayag.) [Car.; cf. US dial. duncy stupid ADD] adj. stupid: He very dunce (Mayag.). a duncy boy
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  • dump
    [DAE, to throw or let (a person) fall unceremoniously; colloq.] v. to trip a person in wrestling so that he
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  • dumb bread
    [Car.; Vir., a heavy Johnny cake (Seaman), Prov. an unsweetened comcake (Washa-baugh 1974:160); cf. DUMB] n. 1. a heavy, sweet
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  • dumb-batty
    [cf. W3 dumb betty a primitive mechanical household contrivance (as a washing machine), influenced by bat] n. a heavy weighted
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