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  • eye-winker
    [Scots idem CSD; US dial. North, Mid DARE] n. eyelash: 1919 Eye-vinker never fall in your eye (Parsons 440). 1925
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  • eye-water
    [Pan-Creole; OED idem →1845, but this may be a loan translation: cf. Igbo ana-mmiri, Mandinka ngaya (Turner 90, 234), Malinke
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  • eye-skin
    [Pan-Creole; cf. Haitian po je (lit, skin eye) idem FICEED; cf. Krio yay-skin idem (Hancock p.c.); cf. lbo anya ahu
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  • eyes
    [Car.; cf. DJE yai, yaiz eye, eyes (in the folk speech inflectional distinction between sg. and plur. is lost: each
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  • eye-opener
    [OED, US: a draught of strong liquor, esp. one taken in the morning] n. a stimulant drug; speed: 1971 (McCartney
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  • eye-man
    [cf. OED eye-doctor idem] n. optometrist: 1977 Plenty of them who the eye-man test they eye he ain't do much
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  • eye-docity
    /aydóhsiti/ (cf. Belize aidasiti audacity (Dayley)] n. audacity. (Exuma)
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  • eye catch fire for something
    [Car.; cf. it caught my eye and CATCH 10 to set on fire] phr. to get a sudden craving for
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  • Exuma
      [from Lucayan; see quot.] n. a major Bahamian island group: 1500 Yumey (Juan de la Cosa map, quoted by Ilunte
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  • extray
    [W Car.; from x-ray, influenced by extra; cf. also US dial. extry extra ADD] n. x-ray. (Black)
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