mabby
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3ADJ.
common, usual
VERB + MABBY
allowed, called, drink, roots, sense
MABBY + NOUN
haint, potato's
Definitions
noun
A Barbadian spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes.
Their usual Drink is Mabby, made of Potato's, which refreshes, and is good against the Phlegm; also another Liquor call'd Oko, made of steep'd Cassadar, and is like Beer in taste, strength, and colour.
The flips or vines they feed hogs and rabbits with; and an excellent drink is made of the roots, called mabby.
adv
Pronunciation spelling of maybe.
We allowed as how mabby you took it 'long with you.
"Mabby he won't be tellin' ye all, even if be is shtarted, " replied Mrs. Finerty.
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6Their usual Drink is Mabby, made of Potato's, which refreshes, and is good against the Phlegm; also another Liquor call'd Oko, made of steep'd Cassadar, and is like Beer in taste, strength, and colour
WiktionaryThe flips or vines they feed hogs and rabbits with; and an excellent drink is made of the roots, called mabby.
WiktionaryOthers were selling yams, water cresses, radishes, tomatoes, bananas, achiote or annatto, beans, peas, beef, fat bacon, lard, codfish, fresh fish, coffee, sugar, tobacco twists, cigars, rice, bread, s
WiktionaryWe allowed as how mabby you took it 'long with you.
Wiktionary"Mabby he won't be tellin' ye all, even if be is shtarted, " replied Mrs. Finerty.
Wiktionary“Mabby I haint got common sense, and mabby I haint got eyes in my head,” Eli muttered, with dull fire in the place where eyes should have been, if he had had any.
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