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[US] S.C. Adams Jr. interviewee q. in Adams Thesis in Gordon & Nemerov Lost Delta Found (2005) 280: ‘Down here, don't you know a nigger works from “kin” to “kaint”?’ [. . . .] I just told him that I wasn’t one of them “kin to kaint” niggers .
at from can to can’t, phr.
[US] S.C. Adams Jr. interviewee q. in Adams Thesis in Gordon & Nemerov Lost Delta Found (2005) 285: Well the Wards’ father was white and their mother is part white, but the kids go for colored around here, and when they is away I’ve heard they sometimes goes for white.
at go for, v.2
[US] S.C. Adams Jr. interviewee q. in Adams Thesis in Gordon & Nemerov Lost Delta Found (2005) 279: I like to see the cowboys, and them colored peoples that they show from Chicago. They's really a kill .
at kill, n.2
[US] S.C. Adams Jr. interviewee q. in Adams Thesis in Gordon & Nemerov Lost Delta Found (2005) 281: ‘Now supposing I had gotten food, meat, money for a car, and things like that—well that white man woulda been owning me’.
at own, v.
[US] S.C. Adams Jr. interviewee q. in Adams Thesis in Gordon & Nemerov Lost Delta Found (2005) 279: Roll me baby / Like you roll your wagon wheel / Roll me in the morning / Roll me late at night .
at roll, v.
[US] S.C. Adams Jr. interviewee q. in Adams Thesis in Gordon & Nemerov Lost Delta Found (2005) 280: I wouldn't start before seven-thirty. Would just lay up in bed with my big black self, and just don't work 'fore no seven-thirty .
at one’s ____ self under self, n.
[US] S.C. Adams Jr. personal doc. q. in Adams Thesis in Gordon & Nemerov Lost Delta Found (2005) 256: She asked the bar room tender, has he seen old Albert here .
at tender, n.
[US] S.C. Adams Jr. interviewee q. in Adams Thesis in Gordon & Nemerov Lost Delta Found (2005) 289: Well son, I ain't fit for as much fun as I used to be fitten for. [...] Now you take them boys of mine, they can tell you 'bout having a time.
at time, n.
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