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  • dead dress
    [cf. dead adv. + dress dressed up; cf. Gul. dress to det (Writers' Program 1940:16)] phr. extravagantly dressed; dressed to kill: 1966
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  • dead out
    [W Car.] phr. to die (off): I could remember some of um now. . .plenty of de ole one, dey
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  • dead
    adv. [Atlantic; Brit. dial. idem EDD] extremely: 1966 I dead hungry (Crowley 110). Dead high.. .dead hungry (Exuma). That old woman
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  • day clean, day clear
    [Pan-Creole; "cf. Fr. Cr. ju netyé jour nettoyé (D. Taylor). Daybreak" DJE; a calque on an African idiom, e.g. Wolof
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  • day: in the day
    phr. during the day; in the day-time: She does sew straw bags in the day (Nassau). (Gen.)
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  • daughter
    [cf. Jam. Rasta "dawta, daughta: girlfriend, girl; woman, female companion; wife; name given to any young woman" (Pollard 1980: 18)]
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  • dash
    [DJE "In common use in Jamaica where throw, fling and other words would be preferred elsewhere] v. 1. to throw:
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  • da's
    See THA'S.
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  • darling plum
    /dáhlin plom/ (Gen.); dorlin or dolling plum/dóhlin plum! (Andros) [cf. OED darling apple obs. —>1586] n. a tree, Reynosia septentrionalis,
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  • dark water
    [cf. Cam, blæk wata deep pool CCD] n. deep water. cf. WHITE WATER (Black)
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