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  • gulf
    n. golf: 1936 (Dupuch 125). (Black)
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  • gulcher pants
    [cf. BDNE I gauchos baggy trousers usually reaching, and often gathered at, the ankles.. .] n. knee-length trousers with wide
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  • guitart
    [from guitar by hypercorrection] n. guitar. (Exuma)
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  • guinep, gunnap, kinep, canep
    /ginép, kinép/ [cf. Car. /kinép/ DJE; OED and W3 erroneously derive genip from "Sp. genipa. . from Guarani"; cf. American
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  • guinea row
    See GUINEA-CORN ROW.
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  • guinea pepper
    [Car.] n. a variety of chili pepper, Capsicum annum: 1889 (Gardner 395). They say you could work witch with the
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  • guinea-hen weed
    [DJE idem] n. a plant, Petiveria ailiacea, used medicinally: 1889 (Gardner 401). = STRONG MAN'S WEED (Black)
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  • guinea-hen bush
    [from speckled appearance?] n. a plant, Perisicaria portoricensis: 1978 Guinea-hen bush. . .a weed with attractive foliage and tiny star-like
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  • guinea grass
    [Car.; "introduced from Africa or Guinea" DJE] n. a tall, cutting grass (Parricum maximum) used for fodder: 1832 (Farquharson v). Goat-food—that's jumbey,
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  • guinea-corn row, guinea row, corn row
    (cf. Belize kaan ruo idem (Dayley), Krio konrol idem KED, US Black corn row DAS, Vir. Guinea plait idem (Highfield p.c.); from the
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