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- day clean, day clear
- day: in the day
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- dead
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- 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
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- drags
- drain
- drains
- draw (1)
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- draw down
- draw hand
- drawers
- Drawing Spirit
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- drawy
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- dread locks
- dream book
- dream off
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- dreg
- dress (1)
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- dress down
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- dressing
- driffs
- drift lumber
- drink
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- driver
- drogue
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- 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
did, di
[Car.; from did as auxiliary verb converging with African anterior marker(s) of similar form, e.g. Yoruba ti (Rowlands 1969a:169) which, like Bah. did and Haitian te, marks both anterior and contrary-to-fact] preverbal marker.
1. of anterior time: 1895 De worrum swallow 'im down. . .de boy met whole lot o' people vwat de worrum did swallow (Edwards 72). 1936 He mussy did feel bad (Dupuch 51). 1966 He did need the water anyway cause he was choke (Crowley 103). 1973 One woman get de Holy Ghos' in de middle o' my bench, an' when she did done shake me up, ma funeral clothes was drench (Wallace 41). cf. BEEN, WAS (Black)
2. corresponding to Eng. was/were; have/had been (before adj., a subcategory of verbs): She did sick. She bin to Jamaica doctor and all (Andros).
3. contrary to fact: 1977 If I did meet him here when I come from there, I woulda beat him. But I didn't meet him; he did done gone (Shilling).
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Last update: 2012-01-17 10:31
Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.2
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