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- oars
- obeah
- Obeah
- Obeah bush
- Obeah man
- Obeah People
- Obeah snake
- Obeah trap
- Obeah woman
- occurrent to
- ocean
- ocean durgon
- ocean hole
- ocean jack
- ocean surgeon
- ocean turbot (Black); ocean tally (Andros, Nassau); ocean durgon (Eleu.)
- off
- off side
- off-black
- offer
- oily (nut), early nut
- okay, O.K.
- okra, ochra
- old lady
- old lady mangrove
- old maid
- old mama
- old man
- old man('s) beard
- old man('s) plum
- old sour
- old wife
- old woman
- old(er) heads
- old-day, olden-days, olden-time
- old-story
- oleander moth
- olive bark
- olive plum
- olivewood
- on (1)
- on (2)
- on the coast
- on the hill
- on-dying
- ona
- onaself
- one
- one day more 'an all
- one mind tell me
- one time
- one time ago
- one two-three
- one-minded
- one-one
- onions
- onliest
- ooman
- oon.
- open teeth
- operate
- orange apple
- orchard
- orchid tree
- oreenge
- other
- otherwise
- oughta coulda
- Our Father Prays (Praise, Prayer)
- out
- out island
- out out
- out rider
- out somebody's light
- out something off
- out the way
- out toilet
- out town
- out-islander
- outdoors
- outen
- outside
- outside child
- outside closet
- outside relative
- oven
- over
- over back
- over the hill
- overcast
- overnight food
- oversleep yourself
- own
- own personal self
- own something to somebody
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Definitions starting with O
one time
[Pan-Creole; "abbreviation of at one time" DJE, cf. also Pap. un bez (Hoyer 98) and Fr. Cr. yon fwe both (lit. one time) immediately (Loftman 1953:60); but cf. also Twi ye no préko (lit, do it one time) do it at once (Herskovits 288)] adv, now, once and for all; all at once; simultaneously: 1918 The tiger sprang out of the hole an killed two thousand men dead one time (Parsons 38). 1949 Man can't whistle and smoke one time (Peek). (Black)
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Last update: 2010-11-09 04:56
Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.1
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