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  • Definitions starting with Y: young blood
    Entry: n.1. [OED, a young hothead obs. →1630] a hot-blooded young man; a daredevil. cf. BLOOD (Inagua, White) 2. [cf. US Black, a young black person ...

  • Definitions starting with U: up
    Entry: kill up ADD] particle added to verbs for emphasis: 1966 He kill up some of them [lions] (Crowley 77). Don't poke your nose up in my ...

  • Definitions starting with Y: young heads
    Entry: (W Car.; cf. OLD HEADS] n. the younger generation: Y 'all wouldna know bout that—y'all is a set o' young heads (Nassau). cf. YOUNG BLOOD ...

  • Definitions starting with Y: yourns
    Entry: /yohnz/ [cf. Brit, dig. Mid, South yourn yours (Orton M78); US dial. yourn, you-own yours, you-uns' your ADD] poss. pron. yours: If I was you ...

  • Definitions starting with U: up
    Entry:  prep. [Car. (Roy 1977:69); cf. Prov. up to the continent (down)to South A mericalWashabaugh 1980:48); cf. also Brit. dial. Mid up there in the south EDD, ...

  • Definitions starting with Y: yuck
    Entry: [cf. Brit. dial. North yuck to jerk; to pull or turn sharply; a jerk EDD; also US dial. South ADD] v. to seize; to pull ...

  • Definitions starting with Y: yuck somebody up (Gen.); yuck up somebody's vexation
    Entry: [cf. YUCK] phr. to annoy somebody: He does make me sick—he forever yucking up my vexation (Nassau). ...

  • Definitions starting with R: race
    Entry: [W Car.; cf. Gul. "Dat fambly—all dat race o' People" (Writers' Program 1940:96); OED idem obs. →.1790; cf. Haitian ras relatives, ancestry HCEFD] n. a ...

  • Definitions starting with U: upside
    Entry:  [cf. US Black "I'm going to go up side your head": I'm going to strike you (Claerbaut); cf. OΕD upsides adv. on a level with, ...

  • Definitions starting with P: pass
    Entry: pass n. [W Car.; OED, a ticket authorizing free travel] passage; fare: They pay my pass (Nassau). (Black) ...

  • Definitions starting with P: pass over
    Entry:  v. phr. to rub (an ointment, etc.) over part of the body: She pass the soap over her face (Nassau). ...

  • Definitions starting with U: upta
    Entry: upta prep. [cf. up • TO at (someone's house): You could sleep upta me (Nassau). ...

  • Definitions starting with R: rake
    Entry: v. 1. [cf. RAKEn.] to collect salt in a salt-pan with a rake: 1782 They go to ... rake salt at Exuma (Bruce 47). cf. ...

  • Definitions starting with U: uptown
    Entry:  [OED, in the higher or upper part of a town, or (US) the residential portion  of a town] n. 1. the part of a settlement ...

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