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  • Hairstyles
    Outmoded attitudes are preserved in the term BAD HAIR for hair which is TIGHT, with a lot of
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  • Music
    Today young Bahamians JAM and BOOGIE to the disco, rock and reggae music heard from New York to Kingston. The
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  • Marriage and Courtship
    The formalities of old-fashioned COURTENING have largely been replaced by a more casual approach. Instead of sitting with a girl
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  • myrtle bush, muckle bush
    /mókl/ [cf. Gul. mukkle myrtle (Gonzales 1922:314); note medial /kl/ corresponding to standard /tl/ in Jam. and Brit. dial. (DJE:lix)
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  • my-owns
    [cf. Gul. my-own idem ADD, and MINES mine] pron. mine. cf. OWN (Eleu ) 
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  • my goody!
    [cf. my God! weakened to goody intj. used especially by children to express delight W3, influenced by my goodness! and
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  • my dear, muh dear
    [cf. Brit. any dear fellow (upper-class Victorian)] phr. an affectionate term of address used between men. (Mayag., Inagua)
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  • mutton pepper
    [cf. MUTTON goat's meat ] n, goat pepper (Capsicum sp.) with roundish, yellow, hot fruit. (Adelaide)
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  • mutton-of-the-sea
    [from supposed resemblance of its meat to mutton] n. the hawksbill turtle or its meat: 1977 Hawksbill. . meat, known
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  • mutton
     [cf. Vir. idem (Roy 1974), Jam, goat mutton idem (Cassidy p.c.); OED mutton the flesh of sheep used as food]
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