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  • gnaw up
    [OED, to bite persistently] v. to cut (lumber) leaving a rough or crooked edge. cf. GIN UP, JACK UP 2 (San Sal.)
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  • glove sponge
    [OED idem 1885→; from its shape] n. a soft, inferior commercial sponge: 1836 Glove sponge ... from the western side of Andros
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  • gloves
    [cf. Krio wan an glovs (one hand gloves) one of a pair of gloves KED, and Prov. glubz glove (Washabaugh 1974:161)] is., sing.
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  • glove bush
    [etym?] n. a shrub (sp?), used to make a bitter medicinal infusion. = LIMBERTING (Andros)
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  • glassy sweeper
    n. a fish, Pempheris schomburgki: 1968 (Böhlke 311). (Exuma, Inagua)
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  • glass-eye snapper
    (Gen.); glassy-eye snapper (San Sal.) [from its large eyes] n. a fish, Priacanthus cruentatus: 1968 (BöhIke 308), cf. SHINE-EYE SNAPPER
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  • glass bottle
    (Gen.); grass bottle (Eleu.) [Car.; cf. DJE grass bottle idem] n, pieces of broken glass: 1928 [riddle) Ol' England dead
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  • glass
    n. 1. [OED, a pane of glass, esp. the window of a coach etc.] count n. a pane of glass:
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  • givey: feel givey
    /gi'vi/ [cf. Scots give to thaw CSD; cf. US dial. South givey moist (of earth), humid (of weather) ADD] phr.
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  • give
    See GI'. Also in the following idioms: give a hell [cf. US Black "Ah don't give a dam pity hell"
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