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- ga
- gabbage
- gabby bench
- gable-end
- gad daigs
- gale bird
- gale-of-wind bush
- gall somebody up
- gallery
- galley
- galloping vine
- gallus, gallus tree
- gallwood
- gambee
- Gambier
- game
- game come
- Games
- gang
- gap seed: pick up gap seed
- garb-fish
- garbage collector
- garden eddy
- garden eel
- garden egg
- garden punk
- gardenia
- garf
- garlic pear tree
- garlic weed
- gas gut
- gaulin
- gaulin crab
- gaulin shark
- Geechee
- geese
- generation
- generation property or land
- genip
- gentleman's fever, gentleman fever
- Georgie bundle
- ger
- German wasp
- get
- get
- gether
- gi, gie, gee
- gi, give
- giant lizard
- giant milkweed
- giant wasp
- gig
- Gilator
- gill
- gillembo
- gilly
- gin and coconut water
- gin or gin up
- ginep
- ginger bush
- ginger grass
- girl days
- girl, gyirl, gyal, gal
- girl-child, gyal-chil'
- give
- givey: feel givey
- glass
- glass bottle
- glass-eye snapper
- glassy sweeper
- glove bush
- glove sponge
- gloves
- gnaw up
- go (1), ga, ger, gon, guh
- goacher's wasp
- goal palm
- goal-wood
- goat pepper
- goat('s) foot
- Goat-catcher
- goat-horn okra
- God-angel
- God-bird
- god-brother, god-sister
- goin'
- gold
- golden apple
- golden eel, garden eel
- golden rod
- golden wild fig
- goldy
- gon
- gone
- good hair
- good hand
- good hands
- good head
- good luck bean
- good night
- good on
- good-good
- good-mannerly
- gooder
- google-eye (jack)
- gooma bush
- goombay, gumbay
- goose iron
- gooseberry (tree)
- goosey
- gordy, goddy
- gossips
- got
- got to, gotty, gattie
- Governor Bailey
- governor cassava
- gra-a-ade
- grab hoe
- grabilicious, gravilicious
- grace
- grace the meal, grace the table
- graft
- grain
- grains
- grainse-man
- gramma
- gran'
- gran' boy, gran' girl
- grand holder
- grand spider
- granddaddy
- granfather ants
- grange
- granigrain
- granny
- granny bush
- granny cake
- granny-child
- granny-kinny
- grape
- graph
- graph hook
- grapple
- grass baby
- grass bed
- grass bottle
- grass lake
- grass scorpion
- grass snake
- grass sponge
- grater, gritter
- graveyard bird
- graveyard crab
- gravy
- grease
- grease
- greasy bush
- greasy man
- great
- Great Bahama
- great hog!
- great thatch
- gree, agree
- greedy worm
- green
- green corn
- green ebony
- green lizard
- green moray
- green tea
- Green Turtle
- green turtle bough
- Greenleaf
- grey snapper
- grey-eye
- griddle-cake
- grin your teeth
- grind
- grind somebody up in your heart
- grinding mill
- grinny bush, grinny-kinny bush
- grinny-gran' children
- gripe
- gristle
- grit
- grits
- gritsy
- grivel
- groan
- ground
- ground dove
- ground fruit
- ground pin
- ground spider
- ground vegetables
- ground-walker
- grounit
- grouper
- grow
- grub
- grub hoe
- grudge
- grudgeful: take grudgeful
- grumble
- grumma
- grumpa
- grumptious
- grunduv
- grungrey
- grunt
- grup
- guana
- guana berry
- guana palm
- guana weed
- Guanahani
- guard
- guard room
- guava
- guava duff
- guffer, land guffer
- guh
- guinea corn
- guinea corn grits
- guinea grass
- guinea pepper
- guinea row
- guinea-corn row, guinea row, corn row
- guinea-hen bush
- guinea-hen weed
- guinep, gunnap, kinep, canep
- guitart
- gulcher pants
- gulf
- gully
- Gulumbanasi
- gum-elemi, gumallamy
- gumbay
- gumma
- gumma bush
- gummy, gammy
- gun
- gun-barrel pants
- gunwood
- gurgy
- gurry
- gut: my gut pickin' (or bitin') me
- gutless
- guts
- gwine, gwoin'
- gyal
- gyal-chile
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Definitions starting with G
gully
[from gull + -y (diminutive)] n. 1. the sea gull: 1936 Shark eat half an gully eat d' yes' (Dupuch 84). = LAUGHING BIRD, LAUGHY, SEA-GULF, MAY BIRD (Gen.)
2. a HULLY-GULLY: 1973 Some of the guys were "gullies" while others were "beatniks"and "tap)" (Missick 34).
gully got you [cf. def. 1 a scavenger symbolizing hunger] phr. You're destitute: 1936 (Dupuch 84). cf. GULLY PICKING.
gully picking cf. OED gully gullet obs. →1552; probably from a phrase meaning 'my stomach is hurting me' (from hunger), later influenced by GULLY gull, a symbol of hunger] phr. extremely hungry; pertaining to a famine: Gully-pickin' time (Eleu.). Summer comin' -- gully will pick (Eleu.). Gully startin' to pick [i.e. I'm getting hungry] (Exuma). cf. MY GUT PICKIN' ME (Black)
Tags: animal, bird, idiom, noun, phrase
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Last update: 2011-05-28 17:49
Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
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