[Car.; also US Black and dial, in Brit., US South (Hancock p.c.)] phr. there is (are, was, were): 1895 'T
intj. [probably a softening of bitch!] an ex-clamation of surprise or pain or an incitement to fight. = ETCH (Black)
[cf. HE, HIM, he, she, it, her, they] pron. 1 . her: 1966 He take out the King daughter, and
[cf. ISLAND 1] adj. unsophisticated; naive ; boorish: 1940 Dey get too islandish (Dupuch 68). (Black)
1336. island
[from the hand-grinding of corn typical on the outer islands] n. a yellowish, coarse, and very flavorful kind of hominy
[cf. ISLAND] 1. n. a Bahamian from any island except New Providence (connotes a rustic): 1935 Havin' mo' fun dan
n. a pod-bearing plant, Dolichos insularis: 1920 (Britton 195). (Black)
n. 1. [by abbreviation of OUT ISLAND] any Bahamian island except New Providence (con-sidered too sophisticated to be an island).
/iz, z/ preverbal marker. [Car.; probably a reduced form of DOES identified with the English auxiliary is; cf. Gul. "Why
/is/ introducer 1. [Atlantic; although lexically derived from a contraction of it is, the source of the syntactic function is