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blaff

American  
[blaf] / blæf /

noun

  1. a West Indian stew of fish or pork with berries, lime, onion, and spices.

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Then was I very croose at the manner of our coming off, and minded not that the hardest blaff of downcome is ever gotten at the doorstep.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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