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- dada
- daddy
- damson plum
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- dander
- Danish
- dar
- dark water
- darling plum
- dash
- daughter
- day clean, day clear
- day: in the day
- de (1)
- de (2)
- 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
- drissle
- 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
do
v. 1. [Atlantic, DAS idem] to harm: That bug won't do you nothing (Nassau). (Black)
2. [Car.] to harm by witchcraft: Somebody do me so (Nassau). cf. CARRY DOWN, CROSS, FIX
3. to play (a trick): 1966 I wouldn't do you a trick like that (Crowley 82). (Black)
4. to say (grace): 1966 We does grace before we eat (Crowley 121). (Black)
5. to participate (in a savings club): do asue (Adelaide).
6. to prepare (herbal remedies): do bush medicine (Andros).
7. [Car.; cf. DJE do: "/a néva du mi han so/ I never put my arm up like that"; US Black "He couldn't walk, he couldn't sit up, he couldn't do no way" (Parsons 1917a:173); cf. Brit. dial. North do to put, to place: "I wonder where he has done your pencils" EDD] to be or move in a certain position: His legs do out (Nassau). (Black)
8. [Atlantic; OED "do, the imperative, was used absolutely, as a word of encouragement or excitement" obs.→1610; US dial. South idem ADD] please!: 1895 Do, B' Rabby, doan' poin'. . .Do, B' Man, spare my life (Edwards 64, 66). (Black)
9. [cf. def. 8] please don't; please leave me alone. (Exuma)
10. used absolutely: [of a crab's climbing] Crab can't do with the shingle, but you see 'e could do with the thatch leaf (Nassau). cf. DID, DOES, DONE
11. [by passivization] to be done: The plait do with a fine-fine string (Ragged).
do for more; do for too much [Car.] phr. to overdo; to be unreasonable: 1969 Dese peepul does do fer mo'. I dunno what dey gon link of nex' (Dupuch 11).
do sense phr. to make sense: I hope I did some sense (Long). (Black)
Tags: grammar, phrase, verb, verb phrase
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Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.2
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