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- dark water
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- day clean, day clear
- day: in the day
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- dead
- dead dress
- dead house
- dead limb
- dead man
- dead out
- dead skin
- dead-man-get-up
- dead-man-strength
- dead-people bird
- dead-people flowers
- Death
- death bird
- death make no promise
- death messenger
- decide your mind
- deep
- deep English
- deep sounding
- deep-hole grass
- deer grouper
- dem
- devil dance
- devil shoestring
- devil umbrella
- devil('s) plum
- devil('s) potato (root)
- devil('s) pumpkin
- devil('s) tail, devil('s) whip
- Dickens potato
- dicky
- dicty
- did, di
- die
- different
- dig
- dig your mouth
- diggin's: what the diggins
- dilders
- dildo, doldo
- dill-seed
- dilly
- Dinah
- dinghy
- dingy
- dinny
- dip
- dipner
- dirt
- dirt-eating
- dirt-house
- dirty
- disagreeable
- discouraging
- diskiver
- dismiss
- ditty
- dive conch
- dive, dive up
- dividement
- do
- doadus
- doctor
- doctor bird
- doctor bush
- doctor fish
- doctor fly
- doctor medicine
- doctor shark
- doctor shop
- doctor snake
- doctor's gum
- docy
- dodge
- does
- dog
- dog up under someone
- dog-bed
- dog-bush
- dog-drink-water
- dog-teeth snapper
- doggy
- doggy after someone
- dogwood
- doll bush
- doll-baby
- dollar
- don't
- don't-care, don't-care-'f-I, donkeyfy
- done
- done-done
- done-grow
- donkey thistle
- donkey weed
- donkey years
- dooder
- doody
- doof
- door-mouth
- doorkeeper
- dose
- dot
- double bank
- double clutch
- double family
- double luck
- double tap, double wracking
- dough-boys
- douse
- down
- down so
- downfall
- draffy
- draft
- drags
- drain
- drains
- draw (1)
- draw (2)
- draw down
- draw hand
- drawers
- Drawing Spirit
- draws
- drawy
- dread
- dread locks
- dream book
- dream off
- drean, dreen
- dreg
- dress (1)
- dress (2)
- dress down
- dress down/up
- dressing
- driffs
- drift lumber
- drink
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- drive
- driver
- drogue
- drop
- drop-cord
- droplet
- droppers
- drossel
- drownded
- drudge
- drug man
- drugs
- drummer
- drummer roach
- drunk, drunken
- drunker
- drunky
- dry balls
- dry down
- dry gas
- dry row
- dry-eye
- dry; dry up
- duck
- duck crab
- duck-dodger
- dud; dude blood
- dude
- duff
- dug, dog
- dulfer's ham
- dumb
- dumb bread
- dumb-batty
- dump
- duncy
- dunny
- dup, duppy
- duppy needle
- durgon
- during the while
- dust
- dusty, dustee
- dut
- dutty
- dutty dog, dutty pup
- dwelving house
- dye straw
- dying for hungry
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Definitions starting with D
down
[E Car., Gul. down away from the source point of the prevailing wind (Roy 1977:69); US to the south, but US dial. North down "in a northerly direction, contrary to the usual up. Esp. down (in) Maine" DARE; OED, to some place in the direction with the wind: 1769 "up to leeward, down to windward"I
adv. 1. toward the north: down along (Cat); down the cays (Albury 1977:157); down through (White); down the line (Eleu). cf. UP (Gen.)
2. towards: Come down by me [i.e. come up to me] (Nassau).
3. [OED, from an earlier to a later time obs. → 18161 later on: They won't be ready till down in February (Long).
down in years phr. of an advanced age: He down in years now and his body don't work like how it used to when he was younger (Nassau). (Black)
fry down phr. to cook until tender. (Black)
give somebody down the country [cf. US dial. South idem "give (one) hell.. .joc." DARE; US Black idem (Walker 1956:121)] phr. to speak one's mind; to call to account; to scold: When I see her, I gon give her down the country [for neglecting her father] (Nassau). (Gen.)
go down: to become thoroughly cooked: When the crab go down (Andros). (Black)
Tags: adverb, idiom, phrase, time
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Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.1
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