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- obeah
- Obeah
- Obeah bush
- Obeah man
- Obeah People
- Obeah snake
- Obeah trap
- Obeah woman
- occurrent to
- ocean
- ocean durgon
- ocean hole
- ocean jack
- ocean surgeon
- ocean turbot (Black); ocean tally (Andros, Nassau); ocean durgon (Eleu.)
- off
- off side
- off-black
- offer
- oily (nut), early nut
- okay, O.K.
- okra, ochra
- old lady
- old lady mangrove
- old maid
- old mama
- old man
- old man('s) beard
- old man('s) plum
- old sour
- old wife
- old woman
- old(er) heads
- old-day, olden-days, olden-time
- old-story
- oleander moth
- olive bark
- olive plum
- olivewood
- on (1)
- on (2)
- on the coast
- on the hill
- on-dying
- ona
- onaself
- one
- one day more 'an all
- one mind tell me
- one time
- one time ago
- one two-three
- one-minded
- one-one
- onions
- onliest
- ooman
- oon.
- open teeth
- operate
- orange apple
- orchard
- orchid tree
- oreenge
- other
- otherwise
- oughta coulda
- Our Father Prays (Praise, Prayer)
- out
- out island
- out out
- out rider
- out somebody's light
- out something off
- out the way
- out toilet
- out town
- out-islander
- outdoors
- outen
- outside
- outside child
- outside closet
- outside relative
- oven
- over
- over back
- over the hill
- overcast
- overnight food
- oversleep yourself
- own
- own personal self
- own something to somebody
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Definitions starting with O
on (1)
[cf. Scots on in, about, regarding, of, for, to, at CSD; cf. also similar use of earlier general locative prep. DA] prep. 1. at, in: 1978 I guh be on der park (Smith 4). (Black)
2. to: 1918 De dawg gone on de bay [i.e. to the seashore] (Parsons 104). I got to go on the dock (Exuma). (Gen.)
3. from: Two weeks on Friday (Nassau).
4. [cf. Cayman two'n'um two of them (Kohlman 1969:33); also arch. English (Cassidy p.c.)] of: 1895 De t'ree on 'ern (Edwards 96). All on 'em (ibid 73). 1918 Yes, an' what on it? (Parsons 115). Zelly and her sister all two on ‘em big right up for them two Johnson brothers (Nassau). cf. ANNUM (Black)
5. for: Landlords who have houses on rent (Nassau).
6. about: 1940 Tink on what we shud do (Dupuch 32). Ideas on it (ibid 84). It was a mystery on how the thief had entered our home (COB). (Black)
7. [W Car.] referring to the effect of OBEAH (pronounced with emphasis): 1918 Puttin' ghos' on somebody (Parsons 13). (Gen.)
Tags: Obeah, preposition
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Last update: 2012-10-21 21:24
Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.5
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