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  • fore-day
    [Pan-Creole; also Gul., US Black (Han­cock p.c.); cf. Scots fore-day the day between breakfast and noon CSD, reinterpreted as (be
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  • force
    [Car.] v. to insist; press. (Gen.)
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  • forbidden fruit
    [OED, W3, C. decumana only] n. the small shaddock (Citrus decumana) or the sweet orange (C. aurantium): 1889 (Gardner 370).
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  • for
    /fa/ prep. 1. [cf. Cam. fo for, at, to CCD] with, to; in, of : 1940  I don't 'gree fer dat(Dupuch
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  • for, fa, fe, fer, fo
    /fa/ complementiser. [Atlantic (Hancock 1969:66), also Hawaiian Pidgin, Pit­caintese, Norfolkese (ibid 72); cf. Brit. dial. South, West "I came for to see",
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  • foot-track
    [W Car. idem; OED, foot path] n. foot­print: We follow the foot-tracks in the sand (Nassau), (Gen.)
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  • foot-to-foot
    [cf. Car. foot-and-foot idem DJE) adv. step for step: He following him foot-to-foot (Exuma). (Black) v. phr. foot to foot to follow
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  • foots
    [US Black idem (Hancock p.c.)) n. feet: 1966 The man take B' Rabby and pull him up by he foots (Crowley
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  • foot grass
    [from use for scraping feet] n. grass that grows by the threshold of a house: 1980. A preg­nant woman should drink tea
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  • foot bottom
    [Car.; cf. Krio batam fut idem (Hancock p.c.)] n. sole of the foot: My foot-bottom dead hard cause I walk barefoot all
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