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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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own something to somebody
[cf. OED own to acknowledge something in its relation to oneself ...to confess to be valid (with simple obj. or reflexive obj. and complement)] v. phr. to confess something to somebody. She own to me she never bin over by grumma-dem (Andros). (Gen.) (Parsons 82). We couldn't find we scrubber, so we borry Con Nelly own (Andros). White people got good hair—most the black people = own bad (Nassau). My foot is bigger than his own (Nassau). Da's he-oon (Elm). Talking bout that's they-own? They know good and well that's we-own! (Nassau). (Black)
—adv. [cf. ONE alone] alone: 1966 Rabby want all the butter him own, and don't want to gi' Booky none (Crowley 58). (Black)
Tags: adverb, verb, verb phrase
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Last update: 2012-10-25 23:24
Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.2
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