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  • Games
    Bahamian boys love to play marbles, and for their many variations on this game they have developed an elaborate and
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  • Games
    Bahamian boys love to play marbles, and for their many variations on this game they have developed an elaborate and
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  • gutless
    (Black); gutlish (Andros); gutlin' (Exuma) [cf. Vir. glus ravenous (Roy 1974), Gul. gútlin greedy (Hancock 1969: 45); cf. OED gutling
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  • gyal-chile
    See GIRL-CHILD.
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  • gyal
    See GIRL.
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  • gwine, gwoin'
    /gwayn/ [Car. "an archaic pronunciation, preserved also in the US" DJE; US dial. idem ADD] v. going: 1880 Mitchell isn't
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  • guts
    [cf. OED gut narrow passage or lange] n. the line behid which one must stand while throwing marbles into the
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  • gut: my gut pickin' (or bitin') me
    phr. I'm hungry. cf. GULLY PICKING (Black)
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  • gurry
    [OED, fish offal, chiefly US; cf. Scots goorie the garbage of salmon; cf. US dial. gurry offal from a fish
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  • gurgy
    [possibly akin to OED gurgitate to swallow obs. → 1656] adj. (of fruit) astringent. cf. GUMMY (White)
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