da(2)
[Car.] prep. (of location or direction) to, at, in, on. (Nassau) ...
da(3)
[Car.; DJE: "prob. fr. de to be (located) + a introducer, but cf. Twi da lie, be situated...A word introducing statements and giving them emphasis: ...
dada
/dáda/ [Vir. da idem (Highfield); OED, child's word for father, but cf. also Fon dada grandfather (Turner 1949:70)] n. a term of address more often ...
daddy
[W Car.; Gul. idem (Gonzales 1922:284)] n. a title or term of address for a respected, older man (not related): I seen Daddy Thompson walking ...
damson plum
[Car.; DJE "fr. the resemblance of the fruit to a damson plum" (Prunus insititia)] n. a tree, Chrysophyllum oliviforme, or its fruit: 1889 (Gardner 390). ...
dan-dan
[Car.; DJE "prob. fr. dandy by iteration of first syllable, but cf. Yoruba dãdã good, beautiful"] n. a child's dress. (Abaco) ...
dander
(Eleu., White); danders (Mayag.); dandrus (Black) [cf. Krio danda dandruff (Hancock p.c.); cf. Brit. dial. North, West dander slight scurf on the skin EDD; dandro ...
Danish
(Black); Daney starch (San Sal.) [etym. unknown, but cf. Daney nickname for a Danish-American (James Holm p.c.)] n. a plant, Echites echites, with potato-like roots ...
dark water
[cf. Cam, blæk wata deep pool CCD] n. deep water. cf. WHITE WATER (Black) ...
darling plum
/dáhlin plom/ (Gen.); dorlin or dolling plum/dóhlin plum! (Andros) [cf. OED darling apple obs. —>1586] n. a tree, Reynosia septentrionalis, having edible black fruit with ...
dash
[DJE "In common use in Jamaica where throw, fling and other words would be preferred elsewhere] v.
1. to throw: 1895 She dash anudder hegg ...
daughter
[cf. Jam. Rasta "dawta, daughta: girlfriend, girl; woman, female companion; wife; name given to any young woman" (Pollard 1980: 18)] n. a term of address ...
day: in the day
phr. during the day; in the day-time: She does sew straw bags in the day (Nassau). (Gen.) ...
day clean, day clear
[Pan-Creole; "cf. Fr. Cr. ju netyé jour nettoyé (D. Taylor). Daybreak" DJE; a calque on an African idiom, e.g. Wolof ber bu sεt dawn (lit. ...
dead
adv. [Atlantic; Brit. dial. idem EDD] extremely: 1966 I dead hungry (Crowley 110). Dead high.. .dead hungry (Exuma). That old woman skin dead stretchy (Nassau). (Black) ...
dead out
[W Car.] phr. to die (off): I could remember some of um now. . .plenty of de ole one, dey dead out (Long). (Black) ...
dead dress
[cf. dead adv. + dress dressed up; cf. Gul. dress to det (Writers' Program 1940:16)] phr. extravagantly dressed; dressed to kill: 1966 (Crowley 102). (Black) ...
dead house
[Atlantic; Brit. dial. North idem EDD] n.
1. a morgue: After that they take the dead to the dead house (Andros). (Gen.)
2. a house ...
dead limb
[Car.] n. a fruit-tree branch which does not bear although it may be alive. (Mayag., White) ...
dead man
[cf. nautical dead men rope ends hanging over the side of a boat DSS] n.
1. mucus running from the nose. (Adelaide, Rum Cay)
2. ...
dead-man-get-up
[alluding to efficacy] n. a medicinal plant. ...
dead-man-strength
[from supposed power to raise the dead, or from a form like FOUR-MAN-STRENGTH plant sp.; cf. also Brit. dial. North dead man's grief a plant ...
dead-people bird
[said to inhabit cemeteries; it is an omen of a death in the family for one to land in the yard] n. the smooth-billed ani, ...
dead-people flowers
[cf. FLOWERS flower; from use on graves] n.
1. bougainvillea.
2. oleander.
3. baby's breath.
4. a plant with purple flowers and thick leaves: Dey dead-people ...
dead skin
[from resemblance to dead human skin?] n. the white layer under the peel of citrus fruits. = DEAD MAN ...
Death
"SEND FOR FEALY!" (a Nassau undertaker) is a humorous cry when someone gets sick or faints. If the SICK is actually ON DYING, however, the ...
death bird
[see quot.] n. 1. a bird, Antrostomus carolensis: 1880 Death bird. . .My guide stated that a few months before, the bird had appeared to ...
death make no promise
[i.e. appointment] n. phr.death can strike at any time. <Nassau> ...
death messenger
[from belief that it foretells death] n. a black bird. cf. DEAD-PEOPLE BIRD, DEATH BIRD, GRAVEYARD BIRD, SPIRIT BIRD. ...
decide your mind
v. phr. to make a decision: So I decide my mind to sell them that (Andros). ...
deep
adj.
1. [Pan-Creole; cf. Krio dip "of language: supposedly pure, unadulterated, original" KED; Port. Cr. of Guine-Bissau "un creole dit fundu (profond)" (Kihm 14) cf. ...
deep English
[Car,;cf. DEEP 1] n. standard English: Some talk like deep English and some talks just similar to how I talk (White). ...
deep-hole grass
n. a grass used medicinally: These grass grow in hole and we call it deep-hole grass. Give him two draught of that or three-cough gone! ...
deep sounding
[cf. W3 sounding measurement of depth, as by line and plummet] n. the water beyond the drop-off dividing shallow from deep water. cf. EDGE OF THE ...
deer grouper
n. a fish, a variety of whitish GROUPER found out on banks. ...
devil dance
[W Car.; cf. US Black devil dancing dancing as an expression of animal spirits vs. holy dancing WSC; probably an old term: cf. Brit. dial. ...
devil shoestring
; devil('s) vine [cf. US Black devil's shoestring idem (Dillard 1977:116)] n. a plant, Tephrosia virginiana, with a strong, wiry root running like a ...
devil('s) plum
n. a plant, Solanum havanense, with berries said to be poisonous: (Shattuck 263). = OLD MAN'S PLUM ...
devil('s) potato (root)
n. a vine, Echites umbellata or E. echites, with spongy tubers used for laundry starch: 1910 (Northrop 175). = DANISH, RUBBER VINE, WILD POTATO ...
devil('s) pumpkin
n. a kind of passion flower, Passiflora cupraea: 1920 (Britton 289). = WILD WATERMELON ...
devil('s) tail, devil('s) whip
[cf. DJE devil('s) horse (or riding) whip, Achryanthes indica or A. aspera] n.a plant with long branches and barbed leaves, used medicinally. ...
devil umbrella
[cf. MCC devil cup idem; cf. LA Fr. paresol djab, Pap. parasol di diabo, CA Sp. paragüitas del diablo, all 'mushroom' (Thompson 1958)] n. mushroom = ...
Dickens potato
[possibly related to digging; cf. WHAT THE DIGGIN'S] n. a reddish-orange variety of sweet potato. ...
dicky
n. 1. [cf. DHS dick membrum virile + -y (diminutive suffix)] penis (word used by older children).
2. [etym] a variety of squirrelfish, Epinephelus punctatus. CONEY ...
dicty
[US dial. South idem "Proud, haughty. Urban Negroes apply this term to bright mulattoes who try to pass for white" WSC; "well dressed, elegant, snobbish, ...
did, di
[Car.; from did as auxiliary verb converging with African anterior marker(s) of similar form, e.g. Yoruba ti (Rowlands 1969a:169) which, like Bah. did and Haitian ...
different
[Prov. idem (Washabaugh 1980:29); from difference, construed as a pl.] n. difference: 1966 The king don't know the different of the gold from ivory (Crowley ...
dig
[OED, to obtain by excavation] v. to dig up: 1918 He will return back to big a bag of money (Parsons 133). <Gen.> ...
dig your mouth
[cf. PICK YOUR MOUTH idem] phr. to extract information by engaging a person in conversation. ...
dilders
[etym; perhaps related to dildo cactus by similarity of pinch to thorn prick] n. a small black crab. =GAULIN CRAB, JUMBY CRAB, PAMMY GAULINY ...
Dinah
[from the name] n. a stupid, promiscuous girl. ...
dill-seed
[OED dill...cultivated for its carminative fruits or "seeds"] n. dill, an herb (Anethum graveolens): 1910 (Northrop 173). ...
dinny
[cf. Kongo nzini vagina (Carter)] n. female genitals (child's word). = DUNNY ...
dip
[Car.] v. to meddle: 1963 I don' want non o' yinna dippin' in muh private affairs (Dupuch 53). <Gen.> ...
dilly
[from SAPODILLA, from Sp. zapotillo, diminutive of zapote, from Nahuagl tzapotl W3] n. the sapodilla tree, Achras zapota, and its fruit: 1966 When he get ...
dildo, doldo
[cf. DJE dildo "two sp. of cactus so named for their phallic shape (Cereus peruvianus and C. gracilis)"] n. a cactus: 1889 Dildo...Cereus swartzii (Gardner 384). 1905 ...
dingy
/dìnji/ [cf. US dial. dingy a negro ADD; US Black dinge idem (Eliason 1938:152); DHS dingy Christian a mulatto; anyone with some Negro blood vs. ...
dipner
/dípna/ [cf. Brit. dial, North, Mid dip a sweet sauce, usually eaten with ouddings EDD; US dial. South idem ADD] n. a kind of gruel. ...
dirt
[Car.; DJE "corrected" from dutty (soil, earth) n. soil; earth but no implication of filth: You need good black dirt for tomatoes (Nassau). <Gen.>
...
dirt-eating
[W Car,;US dial. South idem WEA] n. geophagy, or the habitual eating of clay from melancholia or malnutrition. <Eleu.,Mayag.> ...
dirt-house
[W Car.; cf. Haitian kay te idem (Gaujean p.c.)] n. a house with an earthen floor. (Black)
...
dirty
/dóti, dóyti/ [Atlantic; DJE "dutty...fr. Twi dçtè soil, earth, clay mud; infl. by Engl. dirt, dirty"; it is unclear if last refers also to the ...
disagreeable
[OED, not in agreement obs.→1766] adj. in disagreement: 1966 The four sons was disagreeable. None wasn't agree with how their daddy share their land (Crowley 120). ...
discouraging
[W Car] adj. discouraged. I was very discouraging when I did not pass the BJC [Bah. Junior Certificate exam] (COB). <San Sal., Mayag.> ...
diskiver
[cf. kiver cover] v. to discover: 1966 They diskiver (discover) the butter they left (Crowley 83). ...
dismiss
[by passivization] v. (of schools) to be dismissed. School dismiss at three o' clock (Nassau). <Black> ...
ditty
[OED, any composition in verse, obs.→1614; cf, also Scots ditty a story CSD] n. a story: 1895 So dat's de end o' dat ditty [referring ...
dive, dive up
[Car.] v. 1. to dive into the water and bring something up: 1895 T'row de bunch o' bananas overboar' an den who could dive de ...
dive conch
[cf. DIVE (UP), from the downward nodding of the head; cf. LA Fr. plongè Iambi (lit. dive conch) somnoler en oscillant de la ttte (Germain ...
dividement
[divide + -ment] n. 1. a division (into portions): 1966 make dividement of each of the food (Crowley 121).
2. something serving to divide: A ...
do
v. 1. [Atlantic, DAS idem] to harm: That bug won't do you nothing (Nassau). (Black)
2. [Car.] to harm by witchcraft: Somebody do me so ...
doadus
/dówdas/ ; doady /dówdi/ [etym. uncertain but cf. 1811 DVT diddleys a woman's breasts] n. sing. breast (a family word): My right doadus (Exuma). cf. ...
doctor
[W CAR.] n. an OBEAH man: The doctor live next to City Market...put bottles in his tree [as a guard] (Nassau). cf. BUSH DOCTOR ...
doctor bird
[Car.; DJE "from the bird's dark plumage and from its habit of 'lancing' flowers with its long beak] n. the humming bird: 1960 (Bond 133). ...
doctor bush
[in reference to its medicinal use] n. a plant, Plumbago scandens: 1920 (Britton 319). ...
doctor fish
[Car.; cf. Sra. datra idem WST, LA Fr. chirurgien idem (Jourdain 33); DJE "from the pair of sharp spines (likened to the doctor's lance) at ...
doctor fly
[W Car.; cf. Brit. dial. North doctor horse-fly "Children used to catch a cleg and hold it on the back of the hand until it ...
doctor medicine
[Krio idem KED] n. remedies prescribed by a licensed physician, as opposed to BUSH MEDICINE: 1978 It is an old Bahamian belief that there is ...
doctor's gum
[DJE idem; from medicinal use] n. a tree, Rhus metopium, with acrid sap: 1889 (Gardner 374). = FALSE HOG GUM ...
doctor shark
[perhaps by association with nurse] n. a variety of NUSS. ...
doctor shop
[Car,;cf. Brit. dial. North doctor shop a surgery EDD] n. a pharmacy: 1978 Missa George Cole doctor shop (Dupuch 31). <Mayag.> ...
doctor snake
[etym?] n. a snake: Doctor snake will pitch on you. (Andros, Crooked) ...
docy
/dówsi/ [etym] n. a woman's breast. = DOADUS, DOODER ...
dodge
[W Car., OED, to follow stealthily, and with shifts to avoid discovery] v. to duck out of sight: 1918 When dey see de boy, de ...
does
/doz, az, z/ [Car.; this form probably derives from an African habitual marker such as Ewe a WES or Yoruba maa (Rowlands 1969a:61), becoming a ...
dog-bed
n. a child's security blanket, especially one that has become soiled or smells of urine. <Exuma> ...
dog-bush
n. a plant, Baccharis angustifolia: 1889 (Gardner 387). <San Sal> ...
dog-drink-water
[etym] n. a plant, Tillandsia fasciculata: 1910 (Northrop 144). <Inagua, Mayag.> ...
doggy
[cf. US Black puppy small penis (Folb)] n. penis (child's word; considered naughty): All them girls get crabby but they does ack like they get ...
doggy after someone
[cf. W3 dog v. follow indefatigably] v. phr. to follow someone about constantly: That child always doggyin' after his daddy (Nassau). <Black> ...
dog-teeth snapper
[cf. DJE idem "from its having teeth like those of dogs (Messoprion cynodon, Lutjanus jocu)"; US dog-snapper same sp. (Allyn 1967:66)] n. a fish. <Black> ...
dog up under someone
[cf. doggy after, and the ingratiating tactics of a dog; also US dog up to roll a marble to a more advantageous position (Harder 1955:16) ...
dogwood
[W Car,; OED, W3 different sp.] n. a tree, Piscidia piscipula, with pinkish-white flowers and brown pods: 1977 (Patterson 105). <Gen.> ...
dollar
[cf. Brit. dial. North, Mid dollar a five-shilling piece EDD] n. a four-shilling banknote: 1788 A Spanish dollar is worth. . .4 sh. 8 d. ...
doll-baby
[Atlantic; US dial. South idem ADD; n. a doll: I still keep an old doll-baby on my bed (COB). <Gen.> ...
doll bush
n. a shrub, Fagara flava: 1905 (Shattuck 256). cf. SATINWOOD ...
done
/don/ preverbal marker. [Atlantic; this form probably derives from an African completive marker such as Mandingo tun (Dalby 1972:180) converging with English done; cf. OED ...
done-done
[completive DONE + DONE v. 3] adj. overcooked: This fish taste stink. It mussy done-done (Nassau). ...
done-grow
[completive DONE + grow] adj. short of stature; runty: He twenty-nine an' four foot nine, so errybody say he done-grow (Nassau). You done-grown bitch! (Nassau). ...
donkey thistle
n. a plant, Argemone mexicana, with oragne or yellow flowers: 1920 (Britton 145). =THISTLE ...
donkey weed
[DJE idem "like thyme, good for tea"] n. a plant used as a medicine for foot sores by drinking or direct application. ...
donkey years
; donkey days [cf. YEARS ear; a pun on the long ears of donkeys and the idiom LONG YEARS; the link is no longer apparent ...
don't
[Car.; cf. US Black don't supposed to, don't got, etc.; also "We don' on nat chapter" (Loman 1967:94); an invariant negator masking NA, No] negator, ...
don't-care, don't-care-'f-I, donkeyfy
dóhngki(fay)/ [cf. Atlantic don't-care casual (Hancock 1969: 44); cf. Sra. donkedonke unconcerned WST, Bajan dontcarish (Collymore 40), Guy. doan-kay-damn (Rickford 1976:12); also US dial. South ...
dooder
/dúwda/ [pl. dooders; cf. DOADUS] n. a woman's breast. (Andros, Long, White) ...
doody
/dúwdi/ [cf. Car. duudu idem, also Brit. DJE; cf. US Black do-do (Walker 1956: 117); NYC doody idem (from Do your duty?) in doody-head etc. (M. Klein p.c.)] ...
doof
/duwf/ [from dwarf] n. a short person: A person who short we could call a little short doof (Nassau). ...
doorkeeper
[cf. doorman, gatekeeper] n. door-man; attendant at doors, as at a supermarket: That door-keeper like look at people hard (Nassau). ...
door-mouth
[Atlantic; an African calque: cf, Yoruba enu ìloro (lit, mouth porch) threshold (Oyedeji p.c.), Hausa baki mouth, entrance DIE; cf. also Mandinka bonda, Bambara da, ...
die
[by hypercorrection of DEAD to die] adj. dead: 1918 If you ever eat one of dem fruit, you be die (Parsons 1480. (Black) ...
dinghy
/dinggi/ (San Sal.); ding-a-ling (Black) [cf. TING-A-LING; cf. US dial. South ding-a-ling idem (. Northam p.c.); DHS dingle-dangle idem] n. penis (child's word). ...
de (1)
/de/; dere, there copula [Atlantic; DJE "from there, DE,
which takes the place of the omitted verb to be—poss. also
with coincidental influence from some African word ...
de (2)
/de/; dere, da, dare preverbal progressive marker [Atlantic; cf. DE1and African aspect markers
such as Twi progressive "formed with the prefix re (originally de, to
be)" (Christaller ...
dose
[i.e. of BUSH MEDICINE; cf. also Haitian this Potion TDKF] n. an evil spell: Put a dose
on him (Nassau). (Black) ...
dot
[probably
from dirt] n. excrement. (Andros, San Sal.)
—v. to defecate. (Andros, San Sal.) ...
double bank
[Car.; cf.
nautical double bank to row two men on a thwart of a boat; to double-bank a watch is to put two men on it ...
double clutch
v. phr. 1. [cf. clutch mechanism for shifting gears in driving a car;
DAS "doubleclutcher a (truck) driver skilled enough to shift gears
by double-clutching: = MOTHER ...
double family
[cf. FAMILY
relative and Scots double-sib
related both by father and mother CSD]
n. kinsmen tracing their genealogical connection through two routes: 1966 (Otterbem 127). (Black) ...
double luck
n. term of praise for a man who fathers a child every year: 1966 (Otterbein 57).
(Eleu., Mayag.) ...
double tap, double wracking
[cf. OEDS II double time double the time specified or previously used (jazz)] n. a (drum) rhythm with two beats in
the time of one; a ...
dough-boys
/dówbohyz/, dobies /dówbiz/, doughs /dowz/ [cf. Krio dombay (Mende domba,dombei ditto, Vai dumbai cassava balls), ...a
dish of boiled mashed cassava or coco-yam KED all probably ...
douse
[Brit, slang idem (Hancock p.c.); W3, to extinguish (a candle)] v. to put out (an electric light). (Andros, White) ...
down
[E Car.,
Gul. down away from the source point of the prevailing wind (Roy 1977:69); US to
the south, but US dial. North down "in a northerly ...
downfall
[OED, ruin] n. an unmarried girl's first pregnancy: 1929 My mudder. .got her downfall in her mudder's house. She had two chillen. . die cause
my ...
down so
[cf. Sra. djaso here on the spot WST] adv. phr. there
(with a gesture): That man down so, he real mean and hoggish when we go
past ...
draffy
[cf. Gul draffy drafty (Writers' Program 1940:57); cf. draft and OED draughty abounding in currents of air] adj. 1. (of nights) humid, with dew: Last ...
draft
/draf/ [Vir. idem (Seaman); OED draught current of air, esp, in a confined place; def. 1 seems to derive from sitting in a draft, but ...
drags
[cf. DREG to drag; probably by hypercorrection (Hancock p.c.); cf. Bermuda draggy full of dregs ADD] n. dregs. = DRAINS, DRAMS, DRUGS (Eleu., Andros) ...
drain
/dreyn/; drean, dreen /driyn/ [W Car., Gul. idem ADD; cf. Brit. dial. dreen to drip EDD; OED drain let fall in drops strained out obs. ...
drains
(Eleu., San Sal.); drams (Inagua, Mayag.) n. dregs. = DRAGS, DRUGS ...
draw (1)
[Atlantic; Brit. dial. South draw brew (tea) (Orton L42); GED, to extract by infusion] v. to make (tea, coffee, chocolate): She say she goin' draw ...
draw (2)
[cf. v.t. to draw (lots) + passivization] v.i. (of ASUE) to become due; to be a participant's turn: My asue draw this week (Nassau).
...
draw down
[cf. OED draw to withdraw to one side] v. phr. to move over on a bench to make room for someone else to sit down. ...
drawers
/drohz/ [OED, a term of low origin, which has risen into general use; in US usually considered merely archaic or rustic] n. underpants (current term). ...
draw hand
[W Car.] v. phr. to make a leading or beckoning gesture: He draw his hand to the bush. (Nassau, Mayag.) ...
Drawing Spirit
[said to draw one closer to God] n. the Holy Ghost: When you see the Drawing Spirit on you; he put on—you can't get away ...
draws
/drohz/ [cf. Brit. dial. North draw curling term: to make a careful throw or shot EDD; probably based on third person sing. form] v. to ...
drawy
[from draw pull + -y forming adj.] adj. (of the sea) having an undercurrent. = SUCKY (Andros) ...
dread
/dred/ adj. [cf. Jam. Rastafarian talk "dread: true Rasta man; one who believes in Rasta religion; bad" (Pollard 1980:18); the term also refers to the ...
dread locks
[Car.; cf. Jam. Rastafarian talk "dread locks. . the strands of a Rasta's hair" (Pollard 1980:19); cf. BDNE II dreadlocks idem] n. a man's Rastafarian-style ...
dream book
[Cam. idem CCD; US Black idem (Dillard 1977:93)] n. a book translating dreamt images into lucky lottery numbers. cf. RING TUT (Black) ...
dream off
v. phr, to doze off; to be almost asleep. (Black> ...
dreg
[Krio idem (Hancock p.c.); cf. DRAGS dregs] v. to drag: 1895 The spirits would dreg him away (Edwards 87). (San Sal., Mayag.) ...
dress (1)
[OED, to prepare for use as food] v. to prepare (food): 1966 She dress a pot-a-full of fish (Crowley 106). (Inagua, San Sal., White) ...
dress (2)
[OED, to cultivate (a field)] v. to protect (crops) with a magic charm: 1918 Fixin' or dressin' fields against thieves (Parsons 13). = FIX (Black) ...
dress down
[Gul. idem (Writers' Program 1940:16); cf. interchangeability of particles in other Eng. v. phr., e.g. slow up/down, burn up/down] v. phr. to put on one's ...
dress down/up
[Car.; DJE "transf. from military use (an order to a line of drilling men to move sidewise until each has space enough)"] v. phr. to ...
dressing
[Krio idem KED] n. attire: Hitian dressing. (Nassau) ...
driffs
[from drift] n. flotsam; useful articles washed up on the beach (Fernander 1980). (San Sal.) ...
drift lumber
n. drift wood used for construction: 1977 (Albury 17). (Gen.) ...
drink
v. 1. [MCC, SA idem; cf. Bemba ukunwa umuti to take (lit, drink) medicine (M. Mann p.c.)] to take (medicine, pills, etc.). (Exuma, Mayag.)
2. ...
drissle
[cf. Krio drisul drizzle, light rain KED] v. to drizzle (rain): It wanna rain—it fair drisslin' (Eleu.) ...
drive
[Car.; cf. Krio drab idem (Hancock p.c.)] v.t. to drive away: 1918 You gwine see one or cat. Don't drive um (Parsons 19). (Black) ...
driver
[from slave driver] n. 1. Obs. [Car.] a slave driver: 1800. A Negro man who has for many years been a driver on a Cotton ...
drogue
/drowg/ [cf. OED, (related to drag?) "a hooped canvas bag towed at the stern of a boat to prevent it from broaching to"] v. to ...
drop
n. [from v. drop (a line, net)] an area good for fishing: 1918 He went from drop to drop, and he could not catch any ...
drop-cord
[W3, an electric-light cord used to suspend a lamp, usu. from an overhead outlet] n. any extension cord: Mind you don't trip over that drop-cord ...
droplet
[cf, dropper dumpling + droplet small drop] n. small dumpling. (San Sal.) ...
droppers
[from dropping dough into broth] n. small, unleavened dumplings in a stew. = SLIDERS (Black) ...
drossel
[cf. W3 throstle song thrush, German Drossel thrush] n. Obs. a bird (sp?): 1782 Their wild fowl and birds are. . .galdings, drossels, mocking-birds (Bruce ...
drownded
[W Car.; cf. Brit. dial. North, Mid drownd EDD, US dial. idem ADD, + -ed past participle] v. to drown: 1929 Does be plenty gets ...
drudge
[W Car.; cf. Brit. dial. West, Irel. idem EDD, also US dial. ADD] n. a dredge. (Gen.)
—v. to dredge. (Gen.)
...
drug man
n. a man, especially a young man, taking drugs or selling them on the street. (Black) ...
drugs
[W Car.; Brit. dial. West EDD, US ADD] n. dregs. = DRAGS, DRAINS, DRAMS (Gen) ...
drummer
[derivation from drum unclear, but cf. Krio droma (archaic) a drum, as a musical instrument KED] n. a storage drum, such as for corn, etc.: ...
drummer roach
[cf. DJE drummer idem; OED drummer the large West Indian cockroach (Blat-ta gigantea) which makes a noise at night by knocking its head against the ...
drunk, drunken
[cf. DJE drunk v. idem; OED drunken v.i., to drink to excess obs.→ 1697] v.t. (of intoxicants) to make drunk: The seven-year-apple, eat too much ...
drunker
[cf. Krio dronko-man, Sra. drongo-man idem (Hancock p.c.); OED idem obs.→1608] n. drunkard. (San Sal., Mayag.) ...
drunky
[Belize idem (Dayley)] adj. like a drunk. (Nassau, Abaco) ...
dry; dry up
[cf. OED dry barren, sterile, unfruitful obs. → 1680, probably influenced semantically by an African partial equivalent, e,g. Lamso yumeer dry, thin (Todd 1969:186)] v. ...
dry balls
[cf. OEDS II balls the testicles vulg.]
n. 1. an aching of the testicles caused by sexual frustration. (Eleu.)
2. an itching or chafing of the scrotum, ...
dry down
[cf. cook down] phr. [of liquid in cooking] to evaporate; to become dry: 1980 The fire is turned low after the water dries down (Watson ...
dry-eye
[Atlantic; cf. OED dry-eyed tearless; cf. Haitian je chèch brazen (e.g. a liar) (Gaujean p.c.)] phr. withholding any emotional response; brazen or shameless: 1966 If ...
dry gas
[cf. OED gas vapour generated in the stomach or intestines] n. flatulence. (Eleu., Mayag.)
...
dry row
[cf. dry-eye] n. an argument in which there is no display of emotion: 19401 witness d' dryest row in history (Dupuch 5). (San Sal.) ...
duck
v. 1. [DAE, to get out of sight; to get away from; DAUL duck to dodge or to avoid] to avoid (a person or thing): ...
duck crab
[etym?] n. a small beach crab (sp?). (Long)
...
duck-dodger
n, a small yellow and gray bird (sp?). (Andros)
...
dude
[DJE, very smart clothes; US duded up foppishly dressed ADD; OED dude a man affecting an exaggerated fastidiousness in dress, speech and deportment] adj. ...
dud; dude blood
[US Black dude a regular man or boy (Claerbaut); US slang "any male...extended from the original sense of a city slicker" BDNE III n. a ...
duff
[W Car.; DJE, one of the nautical words that came ashore in Jamaica; OED, a flour pudding boiled in a bag (originally a northern pronunciation ...
dug, dog
/do(h)g/ [DHS dugs a woman's breasts or nipples.. .vulg.; from appearance: cf. CONCH BURRY idem] n. the small black protrusions on the soft body ...
dulfer's ham
[ etym. uncertain, but cf. DHS duffer a person of no ability, a poor man having to savor his food with herbs instead of ...
dumb
[OED, lacking some property.. normally belonging to things of the name; cf. DUMB BREAD] adj. (of baked goods): unrisen: 1940 Shud I trow one ...
dumb-batty
[cf. W3 dumb betty a primitive mechanical household contrivance (as a washing machine), influenced by bat] n. a heavy weighted pole used to tamp down ...
dumb bread
[Car.; Vir., a heavy Johnny cake (Seaman), Prov. an unsweetened comcake (Washa-baugh 1974:160); cf. DUMB] n. 1. a heavy, sweet unleavened cake with raisins. (Gen.) ...
dump
[DAE, to throw or let (a person) fall unceremoniously; colloq.] v. to trip a person in wrestling so that he falls down. (Black) ...
duncy
(Black); dunce (Inagua, Mayag.) [Car.; cf. US dial. duncy stupid ADD] adj. stupid: He very dunce (Mayag.). a duncy boy (Exuma). ...
dunny
[cf. dinny idem] n. female genitals. (Mayag.) ...
dup, duppy
n. [Car.; cf. Bube dupe ghost DJE] a ghost: 1918 B'o' Devil come dere dat day, call(ed) one-foot dup (Parsons 142). When we pass the ...
duppy needle
[DJE ideal] n. a plant, Bidens pilosa, used medicinally. = SEARCHING NEEDLE, SHEPHERD NEEDLE (Andros, Exuma) ...
durgon
[cf. Brit. dial. North, West durgin a stupid fellow EDD; US dial. durgen a rustic ADD] n. 1. a person from a particular area: a ...
dust
[cf. US dial. South dust-dark idem ADD; from dusk, with simplification of final consonant cluster to dus', "corrected" to dust] n. dusk: at dust (White). ...
dusty, dustee
[probably from dusky, influenced by mustee] n., Obs a person of mixed white and black ancestry: 1801 Mr. Rose baptized 14 Whites and 24 "Blacks, ...
dut
[cf. Scots dirt term of contempt for useless persons and things; dut a stupid fellow CSD] n. a term of contempt for persons. (Exuma, Mayag) ...
dutty
[cf. Brit. dial. North dirty contemptible, mean EDD; cf. DUT] adj. base, immoral: Dem sex film ZNS shown' dutty (Nassau). ...
dutty dog, dutty pup
[cf. DJE dog muma, dutty mama children's games] n. a game played by children in which they mix mud in a bowl and pretend to ...
dwelving house
(White); dwelving home (Eleu.) [cf. OED dwelling-house dwelling + hypercorrection by analogy with TWELL twelve] n. 1. a dwelling; a house. (White)
2. [cf. "Let ...
dye straw
[cf dry straw idem (Eleu.)] n. dyed or undyed strips of dried coconut frond for plaiting. (Black) ...
dying for hungry
[cf. Cam, day hungri to starve CCD and colloq. Eng. dying of hunger; cf. HUNGRY hunger] v. phr. very hungry: I ain' eat nuttin' fa ...
Death
"SEND FOR FEALY!" (a Nassau undertaker) is a humorous cry when someone gets sick or faints. If the SICK is actually ON DYING, however, the ...