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  • flowering aloe
    n. the maguey plant, Agave ameri­cana: 1889 (Gardner 356). = SPIKED ALOE, LILY TREE (Exuma, San Sal.)
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  • flour tea
    [cf. TEA any hot drink] n. a beverage re­sembling hot chocolate, made from flour browned in a pot and mixed with
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  • flour pap
    n. flour and water boiled and eaten as a hot cereal with sugar and milk: Old people does eat flour pap to
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  • flour cake
    n. a sweet pastry made of flour, water, sugar: Mama-dem use to bake flour cake (Cat).
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  • flour biscuit
    [probably to distinguish them from sweet biscuits (Brit.)] n. biscuit (US); scone (Brit.): Flour biscuit... mix them up, cut them
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  • flour-bag (panty, robin)
    [from their being made of used flour bags] n. underwear; diaper: 1976 I know dis young man when he wuz
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  • floor bed
    [Car.] n. a bed or mattress on the floor. (Black)
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  • flog
    [OED, to chastise with repeated blows; cf. Haitian taye to cut, to whip, to make love to HCEFD] v. to
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  • float
    [Vir., boat or bateau (Seaman); Scots, a raft EDD; DAE, a small boat or scow] n. a floating cage between
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  • flitters
    [W Car, fried fishcake; cf. US dial, flitter fritter, pancake ADD; from fritters by /I, r/ alter­nation] n. sing. or pl.
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