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  • gunwood
    (Inagua); goal-wood (Andros) [etym?] n. a tree, Tabebuia bahamensis: 1920 (Britton 396).
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  • gun-barrel pants
    [cf. GUN] n. trousers with narrow legs that are rather too short. (White)
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  • gun
    [cf. W Car. gun-foot long, narrow trousers DJE; cf. Krio gonmot (gun mouth) very slim and tightfitting trousers KED; cf.
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  • gummy, gammy
    adj, 1. [cf. OED gummy sticky, soiled obs. → 17201 sticky, such as the hands, after eating candy: Don't let
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  • gumma bush
    [etym?] n. a shrub (sp?) up to three feet in height with broad green leaves. (Andros, San Sal.)
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  • gumma
    [cf. US colloq. gimme. Scots gimma give me] v. phr. 1. give me: Gumma someting sweet (Cat). (Black) 2. give her.
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  • gum-elemi, gumallamy
    /gamálamiy/; camallomee /kamálamiy/ [from gum elerni] n. the gum elemi tree, Bursera simaruba, whose aromatic leaves are used in medicinal
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  • gumbay
    See GOOMBAY.
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  • Gulumbanasi
    See ANANCY
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  • gully
    [from gull + -y (diminutive)] n. 1. the sea gull: 1936 Shark eat half an gully eat d' yes' (Dupuch 84).
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