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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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  • 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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  • Household Articles
    Bahamian homes were traditionally furnished simply with many homemade items since goods of foreign manufacture were difficult to obtain. These
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  • Handicrafts
     For many years most Bahamians had to make for themselves everything from houses and boats to household articles. While a
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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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  • head: have a straight head
    [Car.; cf. OED straight (of a person) steady] phr. to be level-headed or emotionally stable. (Gen.)
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  • huss
    [from OED husk to remove the husk from, by simplification of final consonant cluster] v. to winnow. (Black) —n. husk;
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  • hush your mouth!
    [US Black idem ESEA; also US dial, South ADD] v. phr. an expression of surprise: You don't say! (usually used
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  • hush
    [OED, to silence (a speaker)] v. to stop (talking): 1895 Hush talkin' you' nonsense, boy! (Edwards 94). (Gen.)
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  • hurt your head
    [cf. WORRY YOUR HEAD] phr. to worry, fret: Don't hurt your head about it (Nassau). (Black) 2. to make a
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