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  • girl days
    [cf. Scots lassie-days girlhood CSD) n. childhood, youth (of girls): In my girl-days. cf. BOY DAYS (Black)
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  • girl-child, gyal-chil'
    [Pan-Creole; cf. Pap. mucha muhe (lit, child woman) idem (Loftman 1953: 29); possibly a calque; cf. Bambara den-muso (lit, child-woman)
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  • girl, gyirl, gyal, gal
    /goyl, gyol, gyal, gal/ n. 1. [cf. Car. gyal; cf. Brit. dial, gal girl EDD; "The palatalized /ky/ and /gy/
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  • ginger grass
    [Car.;name from "width of the leaves" DJE] n. a kind of grass, Panicum glutinosum with wide, prickly blades. (Black)
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  • ginger bush
    [from its fragrance; not Zingiber sp.] n. a shrub, Alpinia nutans: 1889 (Gardner 353). = SHELL PLANT (Gen.)
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  • ginep
    See GUINEP.
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  • gin and coconut water
    n. an alcoholic beverage of gin and the liquid from a young coconut, often with the addition of sweetened condensed
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  • gin or gin up
    /jin/ [cf. Krio kot-εn-joyn (cut and join)to cut cloth and sew a dress badly or roughly KED; cf. OED gin
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  • gilly
    [cf. Scots gilly-gaukie to spend time idly and foolishly; gillie-gascon an empty, talkative vapourer CSD ] v. to pick up
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  • gillembo
    /gílembow/ (Berry); gellabo /gélabow/ (Nassau) [W Car.; cf. MCC gilamba Prov. gálembo (Washabaugh 1974:161), Belize gilanbór (Dayley), all (blue) parrot
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