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  • Death
    "SEND FOR FEALY!" (a Nassau undertaker) is a humorous cry when someone gets sick or faints. If the SICK is
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  • Cooking
    Traditionally, Bahamian methods of cooking were determined not only by the raw material available (see FISHING, CONCH, AGRICULTURE), but also
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  • Death
    "SEND FOR FEALY!" (a Nassau undertaker) is a humorous cry when someone gets sick or faints. If the SICK is
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  • dying for hungry
    [cf. Cam, day hungri to starve CCD and colloq. Eng. dying of hunger; cf. HUNGRY hunger] v. phr. very hungry:
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  • dye straw
    [cf dry straw idem (Eleu.)] n. dyed or undyed strips of dried coconut frond for plaiting. (Black)
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  • dwelving house
    (White); dwelving home (Eleu.) [cf. OED dwelling-house dwelling + hypercorrection by analogy with TWELL twelve] n. 1. a dwelling; a
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  • 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
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  • dutty
    [cf. Brit. dial. North dirty contemptible, mean EDD; cf. DUT] adj. base, immoral: Dem sex film ZNS shown' dutty (Nassau).
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  • dut
    [cf. Scots dirt term of contempt for useless persons and things; dut a stupid fellow CSD] n. a term of
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  • dusty, dustee
    [probably from dusky, influenced by mustee] n., Obs a person of mixed white and black ancestry: 1801 Mr. Rose baptized
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