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- wabby
- waif
- wait on
- walk
- walk about
- walk good
- walk here
- walk on your mouth
- walk sloppy
- walking sticks
- walking: somebody walking
- waller
- wamper
- wampus, wampers
- want
- waposta
- war wife
- warm belly
- was
- wash your skin
- wash-hand
- wash-off
- wash-tub bass
- washerwoman
- washwoman's bush
- wass, wasses
- waste
- waste moon
- watch
- watch your stitches, watch your ass
- water banana
- water bottom
- water pussley
- water top
- water-head baby
- watergate
- Watling's Island
- wattle tree
- wattles
- waxinate
- way
- way: he ways on
- wayside bean
- we
- weak back:have (or got) weak back
- weak head
- weak heart: have a weak heart
- wealthy off
- weather, wedder
- wectation
- wedding husband
- well
- well done!
- well shack
- well-bredded
- went
- west'ard
- wet or wet up
- wha's
- what
- what o'clock
- what side
- what's happening
- wheel
- wheel-of-the-sea
- When you see so
- whenever time
- where, whey, way
- whether
- whether if
- whey
- which
- which part
- which side
- whichin
- while:a good little while
- whilks
- whip
- whippry
- whips
- whirlwind
- whistling bean
- white beefwood
- white bell
- white bird
- white bob
- white cane
- white catnip
- white crab
- white elder
- white flamingo
- white gaulin
- white land
- white malt
- white on rice
- white pussley
- white roach
- white sage
- white spinach
- white stopper
- white stopper
- white torch
- white town
- white water
- white-head
- white-shield coot
- white-skin cassava
- white-stick (cassava)
- whitey
- who
- who and you?
- who want buy?
- who-all
- whole step of the way
- wholesale
- whop
- whop-up
- whore's nest
- wicky
- widge
- wife
- wiggle
- wigs
- wild
- wild avocado
- wild balsam apple
- wild bamboo
- wild basil, wild bassly
- wild bush bean
- wild cane
- wild canella
- wild cassada, wild cassava
- wild cherry
- wild coco
- wild coffee
- wild custard apple
- wild dilly
- wild down
- wild eddy
- wild fig
- wild geranium
- wild ginger
- wild grape
- wild guava
- wild hibiscus
- wild licorice, wild liquorice
- wild madeira
- wild mammee
- wild manilla
- wild mulberry
- wild mustard
- wild oak
- wild okra
- wild olive
- wild onion
- wild orange
- wild pear
- wild pigeon
- wild pine, wild pineapple
- wild pussley
- wild saffron
- wild sage
- wild salve
- wild sapodilla, wild dilly
- wild sisal
- wild spice
- wild star-apple
- wild tamarind
- wild thyme
- wild thyme
- wild tobacco
- wild watermelon
- wild white sage
- wild wormwood
- wild yam
- wild: go wild in the bush
- wind
- wind
- wind at somebody
- winding bakimba
- Windward Islands
- wine
- wine purp
- wing
- wing-worm
- winge
- wingey
- winter('s) cherry
- wipe off
- wipe-off
- wire weed
- wire-peg
- wise woman
- witch
- witch bush
- witch-woman
- witchcraft
- witchman
- witchy
- with
- with pickin
- wither-up
- withery
- within myself
- wobble
- woman
- woman head: have woman head on her body
- woman head: have woman head on her body
- woman wash bush
- woman's tongue
- Wong
- wood dove
- wood skin
- wood-gather
- wood-packer
- woods
- woody pecker, woody woodpecker
- work
- work field
- work out
- work witch
- work your head
- worm
- worm-da-fuse
- wormwood, wormvine
- worrum
- worry
- worry
- worser
- worsest
- worth
- would, woulda
- wrack
- wracking
- wrastle, rassle
- wreck
- wriggle
- write
- wrong
- wrong side
- wrop
- wumpers, wampus, wampers
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witch
[OED idem →1801; from the attributive n.] adj. bewitched: 1918 It was a witch cocoanut (Parsons 96). (Inagua, San Sal.)
-n. in the phrase: work witch (US Black idem (Smiley 1919:382)) to do magic; to practice witchcraft: 1918 They "work witch" at Nassau (Parsons x). He gota be verkin Hitian vitch (Brown 33). They say you could work witch with the guinea pepper (Nassau). (Black)
Tags: adjective, noun, Obeah, phrase
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Last update: 2010-11-26 04:24
Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
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