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  • grains
    /greynz/ (Mayag., Inagua, White); grainse /greyns/ (Eleu., San Sal.); grange /greynj/ (Exuma) [cf. W Car, grange idem; cf. OED grain a prong
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  • grain
    [W Car.; cf. Krio fo gren nef only four knives KED; cf. OED grain the smallest possible quan­tity, US dial, grain a bit
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  • graft
    See GARF
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  • grace the meal, grace the table
    [cf. OED grace to say "grace" over (a meal) obs. → 1644] v. phr. to say grace: You shouldn't eat without you
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  • grace
    [OED, to honour; cf. W3 honor your partner to salute with a bow in a square dance] v.t. to bow (to one's
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  • grabilicious, gravilicious
    [W Car.; "evidently from grabble" DJE; Bahamians derive this from grabby + avaricious] adj. greedy: 1977 (Jones 19). That gravilicious boy
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  • grab hoe
    See GRUB HOE.
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  • gra-a-ade
    /greyd/ [US Black idem ESEA;cf.great!] intj. an exclamation of approval (Exuma, Andros) ◊The normal pronunciation is with a drawn-out vowel,
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  • governor cassava
    /góbna kasáva/ [cf. DJE governor cane "the name probably implies superior qual­ity"] n. a variety of cassava described as "hard-hard". (Andros)
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  • Governor Bailey
    [cf. Charles Bayley, Governor of the Bahamas 1857-64 (Craton 1962)] n. a shrub, Clerodendron sp., with red flowers: 1956 (Higgs 28). Governor Bailey, that
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