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- fa
- face
- face
- face-basin, face-bowl, face-pan
- fainty
- fair, fear
- fair-skin
- fairly well
- fall
- fall
- fall away
- fall ill and shameful
- fall out
- falling crop
- false
- false boxwood
- false hog gum
- false pear
- fambly, family
- Family Islands
- family wood
- fan
- fan rake
- fanner grass
- fanner, fenno
- far as
- farm
- farrer
- farrer
- fast
- fast
- fat pine
- fat pork
- father
- Father!
- father-giver
- father-in-law
- fathom
- favour
- fe
- feared
- feather
- featherbed
- Feberary
- feed
- feeding tree
- feeg
- feel
- feen bush
- fence
- fenno
- fer
- ferruffle
- fertilize
- festation
- fester
- Festivals
- fetch
- fetch in, fetch up
- fever
- fever bush
- fever grass
- field bed
- fig tobacco
- fig tree, feeg tree
- fight somebody to do something
- fight yourself up (doing something)
- fighter
- file
- fillim
- fillimadick
- fillimingo
- fillimingo wait-man
- filthiness
- filthy days
- fin
- fin
- find yourself
- fine
- fine-fine
- finger
- finger banana
- finger pepper
- fingle
- finish
- fire
- fire engine
- fire hearth
- fire log
- fire place
- Fire-Bug
- fire-bun, fire-bum
- fire-chip
- fire-dance
- fire-fire
- fire-food
- fire-kitchen
- first
- first face cousin
- first name
- first picker
- first-time
- fish
- fish gill
- fish knife
- fish pot
- fish tea
- fish-pot edging
- fish-scale fern
- fishin
- fishin' ranch
- Fishing
- fishing bag
- fishining, fishning
- fishy
- fit
- fit out
- fit up
- five rock, six rock
- five!
- five-finger
- five-pound word
- fix
- fix
- flame fish
- flamingo bill
- flamper, flamber
- flat
- flat-row
- flattening
- flavouring meat
- fleet
- fleshman 'eas, the fleshman
- flick
- flick
- fling
- flitters
- float
- flog
- floor bed
- flour biscuit
- flour cake
- flour pap
- flour tea
- flour-bag (panty, robin)
- flower plants
- flowering aloe
- flowers
- flum-flum
- flusteration
- flux stomach
- fly pen
- fly-by-night
- fly-house
- flying ants
- flying tiger
- fo
- Folklore
- follow
- fonk
- foo-foo, fou-fou, fufu
- food store
- food wagon
- fool
- fool-fool
- fooly
- foot
- foot bottom
- foot grass
- foot-to-foot
- foot-track
- foots
- for
- for, fa, fe, fer, fo
- forbidden fruit
- force
- fore-day
- foreparents
- forget: not forget somebody
- fork
- fortify
- Fortune Island
- fortune teller
- forty-fin
- foster wife
- four-man-strength
- fowl
- fowl berry
- fowl egg
- fowl foot
- fowl snake
- fowl-crow
- fowl-foot soapberry
- fowled of doing something
- fowler
- Fox Hill Day
- fox-tail grass
- free bowels
- freeness
- Freetown
- French bull-hook
- French knife
- French trumpet flower
- fresh
- fresh cold
- freshness: do freshness
- frettining
- fringe
- fringe reef
- fringe suit
- frogwood
- from
- from side to side
- from time
- front
- front street, front road
- frowzy
- Fruit
- fufu
- fugger
- full
- full (up)
- full water
- full-crop
- fun
- funk
- funk out
- funky
- furnitures
- furrer
- furrer
- fuss
- fyak
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fall away
[Gul. idem (Writers' Program 1940:94), Bajan to lose weight (Collymore); cf. Krio fol to appear old and wrinkled KED; cf. OED fall away to lose flesh or substance, to shrink obs.→ I770; US dial. South fall off idem WSC] v. phr. to deteriorate from ill health or advanced age; to lose strength: After her husband dead, she start to fall away (Nassau). (Gen.)
Tags: verb phrase
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Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
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Comment of marcus bowe:
I heard this word by my Aunt's house. My aunt used this word.Consequently my aunt said one day her and my grandmother was in the mall and my grandmother saw one of her schoolmates. My grandmother’s school mate said, “Or you still look so you and fit,’ my grandmother’s response was, “ Yeah child I is live life easy but it look like you fall away because we the same age but you look far much older than me and you use to look so pretty.”
My aunt's definition of fall away is to neglect yourself physically.
Added at: 2013-09-19 17:39