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- 's
- peas(e) and rice
- S.E.C.'s
- sabby
- saboy
- Sabye
- safe
- saffron, sappin
- sage
- sago
- sail bag
- sailor button
- sailor wasp
- salt
- salt and pepper
- salt beef
- salt bush
- salt raking
- salt-water bush
- salve bush
- salve leaf
- sambo (1)
- sambo conch
- Sambo, sambo (2)
- samconga
- sampire
- San Salvador, San Sal
- san(d)y apple, sammy apple
- sand dove
- sand fish
- sand perch
- sand pie
- sand spur
- sandfly bush
- sandwich
- sane-guy
- sang-eye
- Sankey
- sanky
- sapeery
- saplata, saplatter
- sapodilla, sapodilly
- sappin
- saracee
- sassies: give sassies
- sassing
- satinwood
- satisfy
- Saturday('s) allowance
- sauce: the sauce
- sausage
- saw brier
- saw tapping
- say
- say if
- say what?
- Sayles Island
- scaff, scarf
- scale-fish
- scalipee
- scank, skank
- scantling
- scarlet
- scarlet plum, sky-lip plum, scatter plum
- scavillion jack
- scheme with a girl
- school
- science
- scissors
- scissors-tail
- sconcher knee
- scoonchy-loonchy
- scopcher
- scope
- scorch
- scorch(ed) conch
- scorchie picker
- score weight
- scorgin' needle, scourger kneel
- scorn-the-ground
- scornful
- scorpion tail
- scow
- scramble
- scrambles
- scrap gang or band
- scrap: go scrapping
- scratch
- scratch boom
- scratch broom, scratchy broom
- scratch my neck
- scraunch
- scrawled sole
- scream wire
- screw
- screw conch
- screw the glass
- scrimps
- scrubber
- scrubby, scrubby black
- scrubs
- scruff
- scruff
- scrumbs
- scudger knee
- scull
- sculling oars
- scurb
- scuttle
- sea bush
- sea cock
- sea crawler
- sea gulf
- sea hawk
- sea needle
- sea nit
- sea pippie
- sea pussy
- sea rut
- sea star
- sea tinnicky
- sea wasp
- sea whips
- sea-grass eel
- sea-pie
- sea-weed
- searching light
- searching needle
- seasick
- seaside bean
- seaside plum
- season someone's ass
- secure
- see-me-no-more
- see: have nothing to see with something
- seed
- seedy
- seeking
- seen, scene
- seersucker
- self, se'f
- selfish
- semconga
- send call
- send for Fealy
- sensamean
- sent
- serasee
- serenade
- serious
- set
- set
- set up
- set-up
- setting up
- settle his behind
- settlement
- seven o' clock bush
- seven sisters
- seven stars
- Seven-Day people
- seven-finger
- seven-year apple
- sex
- shack
- shack house
- shad
- shade
- shades
- shadow
- shaggo
- shaggy
- shake
- shaker
- shaker tree
- shakry
- shallow
- shallow sounding
- shame
- shank
- shank bone
- shanks
- share
- shark teeth
- Shark, Shark-Eater
- sharp
- sharp-nose shark
- she
- shedder
- sheep-runner
- sheeps
- shell
- shell orchid
- shell plant
- shell-fish
- shepherd(s) needle
- shet
- shifting cloud, shiffing cloud
- shimmy, shimmy-tail
- shine
- shine-eye snapper
- shine-head
- shingle
- shingle-and-lard
- shingles
- shingling
- shipjack
- shittin'
- shittin's: the shittin's
- shitting cloud
- shitting squid
- shock
- shoes
- shoot-for-take
- shooting cloud
- shooting star
- shop
- short eddy
- short of patient
- short wind: the short wind
- short-leaf wild fig
- shortage
- shortie
- should, shoulda
- shoulder basket
- shout
- shouter
- shouting meeting
- show from you
- Sho’ ‘nuff
- Shrimps
- shub
- shuck
- shuffle
- shy-go.
- sich
- sick
- side
- side
- side lamp
- sifer
- siff wire
- siffer
- sifter face
- sight
- sight glasses
- silent
- silk manella
- silker
- silky shark
- silver thatch
- silver-leaf palmetto
- silver-top braid
- simple
- sin
- since
- sing
- sing out
- singer
- singing tree, singer tree
- singy
- sink
- sinkers
- sinnit
- sip-sip
- sireen
- sisi
- sissy
- sister
- sistern
- sit right in your mouth
- six rock
- skank
- skeet, skeetch
- skiff
- skill
- skin
- skin cat
- Skin Color
- skin soap
- skinch up
- skinny-skinny
- skrimp
- sky-lip plum
- slake go
- slam-bam
- slang
- Slavery
- slavery-time
- sleep
- slender friar
- slick
- slide
- sliders
- sling, sling your lizard
- slip
- slippers
- slippery dick
- sloop
- sloop
- sloops
- sloopy
- slop
- slow commotion
- smack and smooth
- small
- small cane
- small copper
- small reef sponge
- small white sage
- small-bush land
- small-leaf
- small-mouth grunt
- small-scale thread-fin
- small-talking
- smart
- smell: you must be smell yourself
- smile with
- smoke
- smokey
- smooth
- smooth black
- smoothening iron, smooth iron
- snake bark
- snake berry
- snake plum
- snake root
- snake skin
- snake wood
- snap
- sneaky-man
- sniper
- snook
- snout seahorse
- so
- so far
- so-till
- soady
- soak
- soak it on him
- soap bush
- soap tree
- sob bush, sobby bush
- sobby
- sobby yobby
- society steward
- socks
- soft
- sog rice
- soldier
- soldier berry
- soldier bird
- Soldier Crab
- soldier vine, soldier wine, soldier bush
- soldier wood
- soldier('s) tassel
- solitaire
- Solomon potato
- somebody
- somebody traveling
- something
- something else
- sometimey
- song service
- sook
- sooky
- soon
- soon peas
- sorasee
- sore bush
- sorey
- soso
- sou(th)side
- sound
- sounding
- sounding rod
- sour
- sour bush
- sour orange
- sour plum
- sour tree
- soury
- souse water
- south'ard
- sow
- sow-fish
- spacy
- spacy
- Spain-Spain
- span
- Spaniard
- Spaniard wasp
- Spanish
- spank
- spankcadocious
- spark
- spec
- speckle-eye
- spell for something
- sperit bean
- sperit bird
- sperit bread
- sperit passing
- sperit, speerit, sparit
- spice
- spice tree
- spicket, spricket
- spider lily
- spider web
- spike down
- spiked aloe
- spilligate
- spinach
- spiny bur
- spiny milk berry
- spirit bird, sperit bird
- spirit can't agree
- spirit take to someone
- Spirit: in the Spirit
- spitty nor'easter
- spliff
- spokadocious
- sponge
- Sponging
- spoogie
- spoon wood
- spot-fin hagfish
- spotted soapfish
- sprat jack
- spread (out)
- spricket
- sprickles
- sprig
- spring chicken
- sprizzle
- sprizzle
- sprogie
- sprogue
- sprout-weed
- spry
- spudding (potatoes)
- spur
- spy glass
- squall
- square
- squares
- squawk
- squeege
- squib
- squill lily
- squinch up, skinch up
- squinchy
- squinch²
- squinch¹
- sree
- srimps
- stain bark
- stall (up)
- stanch, stench
- stand
- stand-foots
- standing polices
- staple
- star
- starvation
- station
- stay
- steadfast
- stealing the bride
- steam conch, steam fish
- steam down
- steel wood
- stenchen
- step off
- step-mother
- step-people
- stew
- stew fish
- stick
- stick beef
- stick like white on rice
- stick-to-the-ribs
- sticks
- Sticky
- sticky fish
- sticky weed
- sticky²
- sticky¹
- stiff beard grass
- stiff cock
- stiffereen
- still yet
- stinger
- stinging ants
- stinging doctor
- stink
- stink ants, stinking ants
- stink sore
- stinking pea
- stinking weed, stinking wood
- stinking-pea root
- stirry
- stock-weeds
- stoke
- stool (up)
- stoop low
- stope
- stopper
- stove
- stove baker
- stow
- stow-weed
- straight
- straight nose
- straight up
- straight-tail (lizard)
- straighten
- strainer vine
- strangle
- strap boat
- stratting
- straw bag
- straw leaf
- straw work
- strawberry rockfish
- strawny
- straw², straw-bed
- straw¹
- street talk
- street-girl tomato
- stretchy²
- stretchy¹
- strick
- strick on
- stride
- strike
- strimps
- string
- stringy briar
- strip
- strip
- strip-me-naked
- strive
- strive: make strive
- strong back
- strong heart: have a strong heart
- strong man's weed
- strongness
- strut
- stud
- study
- study
- stuff
- stuff: have no stuff for something
- stuffs
- stuffy
- stump
- stunt
- stupidness
- subby
- suck
- suck teeth
- suck(ed) corn
- suck-in
- suck-jaw
- suck-rip(s)
- suck-suck
- suckers
- sucking fish
- sucky
- sud
- sudden: all a sudden or all in (or on) a sudden
- sudge
- suffer
- sugar
- sugar banana
- sugar bean
- sugar bubby
- sugar dipper
- sugar loaf
- sugar more than flour
- sugar peas
- sugar tea
- sugar wasp
- sugar, honey, ice, tea
- sugar-and-water, sugar-water
- sugar-cane tea
- Sukie, Sookie
- summer billy
- summer duck
- sun shark, sunshine shark
- sun-hot
- sun: when the sun and moon fight
- Sunday school
- supply: in supply of
- suppose
- supprick
- sure
- surge
- Suzy
- swallow the grunt
- swamp bush
- swash
- swee-swy
- sweet
- sweet bark, sweet wood bark
- sweet lemon
- sweet margaret
- sweet mary-go
- sweet orange
- sweet pine
- sweet plum
- sweet potato bugs
- sweet potato pone
- sweet rose
- sweet sage
- sweet sop
- sweet spice
- sweet tambran
- sweet torch (wood)
- sweet william
- sweet-bread and butter, come for supper
- sweet-mouth
- sweet-mouth
- sweet-talk
- sweeten
- sweeten yourself
- sweetened beans
- sweetening
- sweetheart
- sweetwood bark
- swell-belly
- swell-gut
- sweller
- swelly
- swidgel
- swidger
- swimp
- swinge
- swinging in the head
- switch
- switcher
- switching-neck
- sword bush
- swordfish
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Sponging
Catching sponges for export was a major industry in the Bahamas until the 1930's. Many varieties of these marine animals were found on the shallow banks of THE MUD west of Andros. The most valuable for export was the VELVET SPONGE; in descending order of value, other vari-eties of sponge included the WOOL (or CHECKERBOARD), YELLOW, REEF, GLOVE, HARD-HEAD and GRASS SPONGE. These were gathered from a small dinghy or BATEAU operated from a larger SLOOP. There were two men on each dinghy: the BOWMAN (or HOOKER), who would watch the sea floor for sponges through a GLASS, and the TENDER, who propelled the boat with a SCULLING OARS. On spotting a suitable sponge, the hooker would HOOK it with a long GRAINS to detach it from the sea floor, unless it was already a loose ROLLER. The sponges were left on the deck of the mother ship to die, and then were placed in a CRAWL on the BAY. After the sponges had soaked there for several days, men would go in with BRUISERS to beat the black GURRY out of them. Their soft skeletons were left to dry in the sun, and then they were trimmed and ready for sale. Despite the folk song Sponger Money Never Done, most of the profits went to the Nassau merchants who bought the sponges and resold them for export. This ended abruptly in 1938, when disease killed over 90% of Bahamian sponges within a few months. Although some varieties of sponge are growing again, the valuable VELVET SPONGE is believed to be extinct. Moreover, the modern preference for synthetic substitutes makes the resurgence of a profitable sponging industry unlikely. See Albury 1975:188 ff.
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Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
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