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Terms which may be individual idiosyncrasies or too marginal in existing records to attest

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  • roll up the newspaper and give someone the notes
  • hogs after hogs, unclear meaning, heard when discussing the order people should dish food up for themselves at a gathering
  • white man's coffee, coffee with a lot of milk, opposite of black coffee, Indigenous Canadian/Toronto-area specific?
  • hooch, sp?, slightly uncertain pronunciation, a part of clothing (maybe the neckline in particular?), the thick band on the edge?, sewing jargon?
  • electricity house, more common in Anglophone Africa?, term heard in reference to the deaths that sparked the 2005 French riots, suggests meaning equivalent to substation, but needs further confirmation
  • Jayne belt/Jane belt ([189], [190]), appears to originally have been the name for a specific company's gaff and the level of genericization that may have occurred is unclear due sparse attestation
  • flyer, used to described someone in California with a number of tropical plants in their yard with otherwise unclear meaning, possibly connected to the concept of flyover state or flying in airplanes in general
  • AWA, "also written as", for example [191]
  • dude (as D3WD [192] and d00d [193])
  • root-and-stem, modifying noun phrase, seen as "barred them root-and-stem from any positions of true authority"
  • mockingbird, someone who swears a lot?
  • sunbelt, a band of skin which has a sunburn, as "sunbelt across my face"

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