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1. Babylon, n.2 View full entry 1530
...derogatory. The city of Rome as the seat of the Pope and the centre of authority of the Roman Catholic Church; (more generally) the Roman Catholic Church, its institutions, practices, etc....
2. ballahoo, n. View full entry 1815
...A type of fast-sailing two-masted schooner. Also used as a term of contempt for a sluggish, slovenly, or ungainly vessel (cf. ballyhoo, ballyhoo of blazes). Now rare...
3. bangarang, n. View full entry 1935
...Rubbish; miscellaneous items. Now rare....
4. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
5. galapee, n. View full entry 1756
...Either of two Jamaican trees of the family Araliaceae, Schefflera sciadophyllum and Dendropanax arboreus. Also galapee tree....
6. groo-groo | gru-gru, n. View full entry 1796
...In the West Indies and South America, a name for two species of palm, Astrocaryum aculeatum and Acrocomia sclerocarpa....
7. hog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domestic pig reared for slaughter; spec. a castrated male pig. Also more widely: any domestic pig. Cf. pig1a....
8. ˈjohnny-cake, n. View full entry 1739
...U.S. A cake made of maize-meal, in the Southern States toasted before a fire, elsewhere usually baked in a pan. Also W. Indies, a scone or dumpling (cf. quot....
9. jook, v. View full entry 1877
...trans. To stab, pierce, or prick; to poke or jab....
10. jug, n.7 View full entry 1945
...A savoury Barbadian dish served esp. at Christmas (see quots.)....
11. kabouri, n. View full entry 1899
...A fly of the genus Simulium....
12. limer, n.3 View full entry 1970
...A person who hangs about the streets....
13. margate, n. View full entry 1735
...orig. Amer. and Caribbean. More fully margate-fish, margate grunt. A deep-bodied grunt, Haemulon album, found in the western Atlantic and important as...
14. mento, n. View full entry 1910
...A traditional Jamaican dance in duple time, or a song, often anecdotal or topical in content, sung to accompany this; (later also) the style of folk music associated with this dance. Cf....
15. mobbie, n. View full entry 1638
...Caribbean....
16. mojo, n.1 View full entry 1926
...Magical power, voodoo, the art of casting spells; a charm or talisman used in casting such spells. More generally, esp. in recent use: a power, force, or influence of any kind (often...
17. Moko, n.1 View full entry 1774
...A member of a people originating from southern Nigeria and other areas of West Africa, esp. one transported as a slave to the Caribbean. Now chiefly hist....
18. † mopus, n.3 View full entry 1750
...In Barbados: the red knot, Calidris canutus....
19. myal, adj.1 and n. View full entry 1774
...Designating a person or thing involved in or associated with the practice of myalism. Freq. in myal-man....
20. nylon, n. and adj. View full entry 1938
...Any of various synthetic thermoplastic polymers with a straight-chain polyamide structure, many of which are tough, lightweight, and resistant to heat and chemicals, may be produced as filaments, sheets, or moulded objects,...
