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- cabbage
- cabbage palm
- Cable Beach
- caboose
- caca
- Caicos
- cake
- calaboose, calaboosh
- calalu, callalou
- call
- calm head
- camallamee
- camally
- camp
- can
- can cream, cream
- can lamp
- can't
- cancer-tree, cancer-bush, cancer-plant
- candle bush, candle tree
- candle-berry
- cane grass
- cane tea
- canelly
- canep
- canes
- canimo
- cankerberry
- cap
- capable
- caper tree
- capnit
- capoonkle, kerpunkle
- capsize
- car-garage
- caracas
- card
- care, caar, cah
- care: ain' care
- careful
- carl
- carrion crow, carryin' crow, carrin' crow
- carry
- cascate
- case: get (or jump) on someone's case
- cashia
- cassada
- cassava bark
- cassava bread
- cassava head
- cassava pie, cassava crust
- cassava stick
- cassava trash
- cassava wood, cassada wood
- cat
- cat boil
- Cat Island
- cat mint
- cat('s) paw
- cat-bird
- cat-eyes
- cat-gut(s)
- cat-tongue
- cat-wash
- catacoo
- catajean
- catchers
- catchers' kisses
- catnip
- catoonkle
- cattles
- catty-corner
- cave earth, cave dirt
- cave-bat
- cave-hole
- cay, key
- caya
- cedar
- ceement
- ceiling
- Celia cassava
- centipee
- cerasee
- chack
- chain moray
- chain of love
- chairman
- chalk: that's chalk
- chamber pot
- chance
- chance: take chance for chance
- chancilla
- chaney vine
- change
- change on somebody
- chap
- charcoal
- Charles Town
- chat-chat
- chatty
- chaw
- cheap
- Cheap John Stirrup
- check (1)
- check (2) or cheque
- checkerboard
- chee-chee
- cheek somebody up
- cheeks
- cheers
- cheese bush
- chenille bug
- cherry
- chest-bone
- chew-bird
- chew-tobacco
- chewstick, chawstick
- chich or chinch up
- chick-chick
- chick-of-the-village
- chickchanny, chickcharney
- chicken fight
- chicken gizzard
- chicken peas
- chicken toe
- chicken-toe potato
- chickereely
- chiefer
- child
- child, please!
- children
- chillun, chi'ren
- chilly bin
- chim-chim
- chime
- chimley, chimlay
- chimmy, chimper
- chin-chin
- china closet
- chinas
- chinchary
- chinchy
- Chine
- Chinee shop
- Chinee, Chiny
- Chinese roach
- chinker
- chinny briar, chinny bush
- chip-chip
- chirone
- chiss
- chock, chack, chuck, jock
- chocolate tea
- chocolate-brown
- choosy
- chop, chap
- chow-chow
- Christ
- Christmas bush
- Christmas candlesticks
- Christmas daisy
- Christmas flower
- Christmas okra
- Christmas rose
- Christmas tree
- chuck
- chucking in the bag
- church
- churchyard rose
- Cigatoo, Ciguatea
- Cigillian
- cinnecord
- cipher
- city boy, city girl
- clad
- clampers
- clampsy
- clap somebody up
- clap your hip
- claps: the claps
- claver
- claws: a round o' claws
- clean
- clear
- clear, clare
- cleavers
- cline
- clip out
- clipso
- cloak
- clock bush
- clod, clud
- cloddy, cluddy
- clog, cloggy
- close
- cloth
- cloud, cloudy
- clower
- club
- club in
- club-stick
- clud, cluddy
- clut, clutty
- co
- coal
- coal of fire
- coal pot
- coast
- coby
- cock up
- cock-eye
- cocker-roach, cockaroach
- cockroach berry, roach berry
- cockspur prickle
- cocktail
- cocky ball
- cocky pilot
- coco plum
- coco, cocoa, coca, koka
- coco-macock
- coco-six
- cocoa tea
- cocoa-pease
- cocobey
- coconut bird
- coconut bomb
- coconut bread
- coconut bugs
- coconut cake
- coconut cream
- coconut doughby
- coconut duff
- coconut jelly
- coconut jimmy
- coconut milk
- coconut pearl-edge
- coconut rush
- coconut tart
- coconut trifle
- coconut water
- cod-pepper
- coffee-tea
- cokay
- cold
- cold
- cold in the arm, eye, hand, etc.
- collection box
- colleesion: in colleesion
- Collins Wall
- colly
- coloured
- comallomy
- combruction
- come
- come back
- come before
- comforter
- comical
- coming moon
- commandant
- commerce
- commissioner
- commonage land, common edge land, communist land
- company
- con
- concert
- concertine
- Conch
- Conch
- conch bubby
- conch fish
- conch jack
- conch-breaker
- conch-eye
- conch-killer
- conch-shell
- Conchy Joe
- coney (1), cony
- coney (2), cony
- coney(fish)
- confuddle up
- confuse
- confusion
- Congo
- Congo drum
- Congo tea
- Congo Town
- Congo worm
- Conian
- conjessy (mouth)
- conk
- Conky Joe, Conchy Joe
- conky, conchy, conchi
- conky-bine
- constructor
- consumpted
- contes
- contract time
- convenient
- conversate
- coob
- Coobians
- cooda
- cook kitchen, cooking kitchen
- cooker
- Cooking
- cool (it) out
- cool drink
- cool hutch
- cool off
- cooling board
- coontie sago, country sago
- coony
- coop
- coot
- copper
- copper-bread
- coppet
- coppice Joewood
- copple
- corb
- cork up
- corkscrew
- corkwood
- corn
- corn
- corn fish
- corn husk
- corn row
- corn soup
- corn stick
- corn yuck
- corner
- corner-boy
- corrupt
- corruption
- corunten lizard
- cotch
- cotton bird
- cotton tree
- cotton-wick
- cough bush
- could
- count
- Counter Bottom, Counter Butter
- country almond
- country marks
- country people
- country sago
- country-born
- couple
- courage
- courage bush
- courage conch
- courtening
- cousins
- cover
- cow bush, cow bean
- cow-fish
- cow-fly
- cow-grass
- cow-meat
- cow-milk
- cow-peas
- cow-tongue
- cow-wasp
- coward
- cowboy
- Crab
- crab
- crab back
- crab basket
- crab bush
- crab hawk
- crab stick
- crab-and-dough
- crab-basket plait
- Crab-catcher
- crabbening
- crabbish
- crabby
- crabfat-and-dough
- crabwood
- crack rock
- crack(ed) conch
- cracker
- cracker dust
- crackers
- crane
- crane crow
- cranky
- crawfish
- crawfisherman
- crawl, craw, kraal
- crawler
- craziness
- crazy
- crazy hill
- crease
- credit: give credit to
- creek
- creeping Charlie
- creeter, creatur
- creole
- crew
- criard
- crib
- crimlin slips
- crimp edge
- crimps
- crispy
- crispy-wood
- crocus
- crocus bag, crocus sack
- Cromanty
- Cronie Cadunta
- crook
- crop season
- crop-basket
- crop-time
- cross
- cross and cross: to go cross and cross
- cross-cut
- cross-road dirt
- cross-step
- crotch
- crow
- crow('s) broom
- crumbles
- crutchet
- cry
- cry-well
- crying
- cub
- cub
- Cuba
- cubbyu
- Cubian, Coobian
- cubie
- Cuckero, cockero
- cuckoo (bird)
- cuckoo mack-eye
- cuckoo soup
- cuckoo-rookoo
- cud
- cudgniy
- Cuffey
- cultivator
- cunny-hole
- cup
- cup grease
- cupshell
- curb
- cure-for-all
- curly-tail
- currant tree
- currency
- current
- curry
- curry-favor (for) somebody
- cursing
- curve
- curved accent: have a curved accent
- cush-cush
- Cushie
- cushy
- cuss-cuss
- custard apple
- cut
- cut
- cut breast
- cut bush
- cut down
- cut road
- cut somebody
- cut tail
- cut up with somebody
- cut your ass (or behind, hip, skin, tail)
- cut your grass
- cut-ass, cut-skin
- cut-eye
- cut-out
- cut-thatch, cutting top-palm
- cut-up
- cute
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chickchanny, chickcharney
/chikchá(h)ni/; Also chincharny, chickanny [etym. uncertain; Craton suggests Arabic shitani devil (1966:18), whence also Krio setani, shaytani spirit of evil (cf. Mandinka, Susu setani, Temne sethani, Hausa saitsaami) KED; cf. also DJE chicaney (perhaps from chicanery) trick(y)] n. 1. a mythical creature: 1934 Yarns about "chin charnies" (Bell 144). 1940 Chickannies, fairies peculiar to Andros (Forbes 194). 1966 Chickchannies are large, magical birds looking like flamingoes, but rapidly changing color through all shades of the rainbow, They live in miniature "trash" (thatch) houses built in a nest, created by pulling together the branches of a large pine tree. They are extremely dangerous if "mocked" and can cause paralysis and death, but can also cure (Crowley 18). 1975 Chickcharney, a three-toed, three-fingered, human-faced elf which lives in pine trees (Albury 245). 1979 Andros Legendary Chic-Charnies (title of Junkanoo float with birdlike creature, Sept. 11 Tribune). He buck a chickcharney and he laugh at 'im... and he swell right up (Andros). cf. LITTLE RED MEN (Gen.)
2. [cf. CHICKCHARNEY 1] the giant barn owl, Tyto pollens, about three feet tall, which is now extinct but probably survived into historic times: 197811 may have been the inspiration for the chickcharney, that bird-bodied, red-eyed and three-toed mythical beast of Andros. Being the largest island in the Bahamas, Andros probably supported the giant barn owl longer than the other islands after the sea returned and reclaimed the land. The mythical duppies of Cayman and Jamaica bear a fascinating resemblance to the chickeharney (Campbell 25). cf. CHINCHARY
Tags: animal, bird, folktales, noun
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Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.1
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