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  • gill
    [DJE, the extensible bright-colored dewlap or "fan" under a lizard's throat; OED, the wattles or dewlap of a fowl, —> 1785] n.
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  • Gilator
    [possibly from a misreading of CIGATOO or ELEUTHERA] n. former name of an Island, perhaps Eleuthera: A [1627] grant of ... Abaco,
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  • gig
    [US Black "originally a jazzman's job; later it came to mean any kind of job" (Major); cf. Scots gig anything that whirls;
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  • giant wasp
    /jáyan wahs/ n. a two-inch long, yellow wasp (sp?) with a bad sting. = KING WASP (Nassau)
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  • giant milkweed
    n. a shrub, Calotropis procera: 1920 (Britton 341). = WILD DOWN (Black)
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  • giant lizard
    [from its size (some ten inches in length) as opposed to that of other species] n. a lizard, Ameiva auberi, with stripes. =
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  • gi, give
    prep. 0bs? [Pan-Creole; cf. Sra. gi, Haitian ba, Port. Cr. da (Ivens Ferraz 1979:108) etc.; a calque on the second element
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  • gi, gie, gee
    /gi/ v. 1. [Atlantic; cf. DJE give "often reduced in dial. (as also in English, Scots, US, etc. dial.) to /gi/] to give: 1936
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  • gether
    /géda/ [Atlantic; also Scots CSD, US dial. ADD] v. gather: 1918 What do you do to help me gether as much money
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  • get
    Other idioms with get in its common meanings include: get behind somebody to do something [Car.; cf. keep after somebody to do something
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