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  • fowl
    [Atlantic; OED, domestic cock or hen; much more frequent than in US, where chicken is usually applied to mature birds as well]
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  • four-man-strength
    (Gen); four-month-strength (Andros) [from its use as a tonic] n. a plant (Peteveria alliacea?) used medicinally. cf. POOR­-MAN-STRENGTH, POND BUSH, GARLIC WEED, OBEAH
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  • foster wife
    [cf. OED foster guardianship] n. 1. [perhaps influenced by fos(t) first + -er (com­parative)] a first wife; the woman to whom
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  • forty-fin
    [cf. OED forty-legs a popular or dialectal name of the centipede; cf. FIN leg (of insect, etc.); cf. also Scots Jack forty-feet centipede
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  • fortune teller
    [OED, one who tells fortunes] n. an object used to tell one's fortune: 1918 "I'm gwoin' to tell you story from
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  • Fortune Island
    n. Obs, the former name of Long Cay, off Crooked Island: Long Cay used to name Fortune Island long years ago
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  • fortify
    [OED, to strengthen, reinforce with addi­tional resources obs. → 1725] adj. wealthy: 1918 He became fortifi [rich] (Parsons 66). (Black)
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  • fork
    [from shape] n. a wide-toothed comb for Afro hair styles. =   PICK (Eleu., Andros)
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  • forget: not forget somebody
    [Car.] phr. not fail to settle a score with somebody. (Gen.)
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  • foreparents
    [also Bermuda (Ayres 1933:9); cf. OED 1526 "Our fore parentes Adam and Eue"] n. forefathers; ancestors: 1966 (Crowley 46). (Gen.)
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