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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
Tags
Definitions starting with G
go (1), ga, ger, gon, guh
/go(n)/ [cf. (to be) going (to do)] preverbal marker, indicates future action: 1978 I gun be on der park (Smith 4). I go see 'im later (Nassau). I ger knock him upside he head (Nassau). cf. GWINE, GONE (Black)
go bush. See BUSH.
go errands /gow éranz/ [cf. go on an errand idem] phr. to run an errand: 1918 Go my erran's (Parsons 79). cf. GO MESSAGES (Black)
go for yourself [cf. Sp., Port. irse (lit, go oneself) to go away] phr. to be on one's way: 1936 I hop on muh weel an' I gone fer mesef (Dupuch 93). (Gen.)
go in phr. 1. [Car.; Vir. (Highfield p.c.), Jam. (Cassidy p.c.)] to turn in; to go to bed: My grandmother does go in for the night at seven o'clock (Nassau). (Black>
2. [from synonymy with enter in other contexts] to enter (a contest): She go in a beauty contest (Nassau).
go messages [cf. US dial, go a message idem ADD] phr. to carry messages: 1918 You can't go my messages (Parsons 79). cf. GO ERRANDS (Black)
go on the phone (Black); go to the phone (Inagua) phr, to talk on the telephone: She goes on the phone and gossips with Miss Sue (COB).
go on the road [cf. Haitian pran lari idem HCEFD] phr. 1. to go out into the street: After dinner we go on the road little while (Andros). (Black)
2. get out of this house! (an angry command). (Eleu.) cf. GET IN THE ROAD
go right ahead (and do something) phr. to do something suddenly. (Eleu.>
go sleep! go rest! [W Car.; cf. Scots gude rest good night CSD] phr. good night! (said on parting right before bedtime). (Black)
go so [cf. US colloq. go to be arranged (a certain way, e.g. words of a song) and SO thus] phr. to be (a certain way): Dat ain' how dot go. It don' go so (Nassau). (Gen.)
go straight along (and do something) [Car.] phr. to do something suddenly. (Black>
go to do [Car.; cf. Twi me ko ye (lit. I go do) I did that on purpose (K. Aboagye p.c.); cf. also US colloq. "Why did you go and do that?", and dial. "I didn't go to do it" (i.e. mean to do it) ADD] phr. to do something intentionally: lain' go to do that (Nassau), (Black)
go up [cf. DAS (stick it)up your ass an expression of rejection and contempt] intj. a defiant retort (considered vulgar). (San Sal., Mayag.)
go with sense phr. to require good judgment: 1982 If the leadership of the P.L.P. doesn't come to admit that this thing really goes with sense soon, they too will perish (Guardian, Jan. 11).
Tags: grammar, idiom, interjection, phrase, preverbal
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Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
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