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- obeah
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- 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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out
v 1. [Car.; OED idem obs. →1621; aiso dial. in Brit. EDD, US South ADD] to put out (a light, etc.), to extinguish: 1918 My wife, out the lamp (Parsons 12). 1966 Man, out that damn fire (Crowley 54). cf. OUT OUT 1 (Black)
2. [Car.; OED idem obs. →1823, also Brit. dial. North, Scots EDD] to put out, eject: Out The cat! (Nassau). cf. OUTEN (Black)
--adj. [also Gul., US dial. South ADD] finished, used up: My book out [i.e. there are no more un-used pages left in my notebook] (Nassau).
--adv. [cf. US dial. North out blowing from the sea; said of the wind ADD] from the ocean or beach to the settlement or harbor: 1977 (Albury 157).
—prep. [W Car.; cf. also US Black "1 couldn't get out the bed" (Keiser 1969:65); cf. OED out out of obs. or dial., but cf. US "Walk out the door"] out of (not used with of): 1936 Out muh way (Dupuch 13). 1966 I could get you out this hole (Crowley 56). (Black)
Tags: adjective, adverb, nautical, preposition, verb
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Last update: 2012-10-25 22:20
Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.2
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