Meaning of crocodilly | Babel Free

Definitions

A crocodile.

childish, colloquial

Examples

“Mostly they is crocodilly but some be alligator that favor the crocodilly. Right now the place have a high scent but don’t let these animals worry you none, Mr. Bernard. I’m gon’a fumigate this place and paint it up, pretty, pretty.”

““Mama, someone’s knocking at the back door,” Tommy-Blue called out. / Everyone in the room paused to listen. / Everyone except one. “I’m a crocodilly!” Punky squealed. / “Shhh, Punky . . . listen!” Corrie and Dola cautioned at the same time.”

“Only Walt, who with the others had by then arrived, wouldn’t eat the Callaloo Stew with Frizzled Chicken. ‘You don’t eat your friends with a knife and spoon,’ he explained with dignity. / ‘He’d never eat a crocodilly neither,’ supposed Cuth.”

““Don’t know. One of them turtles, maybe.” / “A plesie?” I said. “Are you sure?” / Davy shifted from one foot to the other. “Well, it could be a crocodilly. I never knowed the difference.””

““We used rocks and bottles, but could not kill the crocodilly.” / “Yeah. They’re thick-skinned bastards.””

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