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  • greedy worm
     n. 1. [OED, obs. 1585 "If the little nerve under Whelp's tongue (commonly called the greedy worm) be taken away,
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  • gree, agree
    [ Atlantic; cf. OED agree, also aphetized as gree to live or act together harmoniously] v. to live in harmony;
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  • great thatch
    [cf. THATCH 2; from its height] n., Obs? a palm tree (sp?): 1788 Among the indigenous palms the inhabitants distinguish
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  • great hog!
    [probably a euphemism for great God!] intj. an exclamation of surprise. (Black)
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  • Great Bahama
    [cf. OED Great prefixed to names to distinguish them from places having identical names with the prefix Little; cf. Great
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  • great
    [W Car.; from great-grandparents] n. ancestors: All their great did that (Nassau). (Black)
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  • greasy man
    [cf. Belize griisimán thief (Dayley); the Bah. figure is supposedly based on the ac-tivities of an actual criminal] n. a
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  • greasy bush
    [WE idem (sp?)] n. a shrub (sp?) whose leaves act as a detergent: 1976 Water from the "lye barrel" mixed
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  • grease
    v. [cf. Scots greaser a thrashing CSD] to beat a person with an instrument; to cane (at school): 1978 Let's
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  • grease
    n. [W Car.] hair cream: [at a drug store] Give me a can of grease, please (Nassau). (Black) ◊ ln
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