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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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come
v. 1. [Atlantic; DJE "from become or perh. come as abbr. of come to be" but cf. OED come 24a to become (e.g. come true, come untied, etc); cf. also vini 'come, become' in all Fr. Cr. (Goodman 1964:60)] to become: 1918 (Magic) pot come full o' pease an rice (Parsons 141). Corn come blight (Exuma). (Black)
2. [DJE idem] come in! (said to someone knock-ing outside). (Nassau.)
come do [cf. DJE come "before another verb with the effect of preparing for it, thus giving it prominence or greater force"; cf. come as serial verb in creole and African languages (Alleyne 1980:91, 171)] phr. to approach doing something: Every vessel what go out come bring in all dead sponge (Shilling 1977). (Black)
come down phr. to take one's turn at playing marbles: I comin' down second and I goin' get all them marbles out that ring (Nassau).
come 'shore [Rama Cay Cr. idem (Holm 1978); nautical] phr. to return home. (Black)
Tags: grammar, idiom, phrase, verb
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Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
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