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‘Black Talking on the Streets’ in Bauman & Sherzer Ethnography of Speaking 254: It is the expression of this opposition between the two 'worlds' of Black life that presents the largest problem in the description and analysis of an Afro-American world order—the problem of accounting for this high valuation of baadness [sic]. ‘Black Talking on the Streets’ in Bauman & Sherzer Ethnography of Speaking 245: Cursing [. . .] may be either a device of playing, or used very seriously, as are mounting, charging, getting on someone’s case, and many others. ‘Black Talking on the Streets’ in Bauman & Sherzer Ethnography of Speaking 261: The larger term for this kind of play is cutting contest and, by extension, a friend with whom one can play, a cutting buddy, cutting man, or cutty. ‘Black Talking on the Streets’ in Bauman & Sherzer Ethnography of Speaking 241: [used adv.] One hears discussions [...] about how bad or country some Blacks talk. ‘Black Talking on the Streets’ in Bauman & Sherzer Ethnography of Speaking 261: The larger term for this kind of play is cutting contest and, by extension, a friend with whom one can play, a cutting buddy, cutting man, or cutty. ‘Black Talking on the Streets’ in Bauman & Sherzer Ethnography of Speaking 261: Hoorawing, an active contest of wits in which everyong [sic] may join, is the most volatile of all the categories for ways of speaking. It is known by a number of terms even within the same community. Hoorawing or talking hooraw shit seem to be the oldest terms here according to my older informants. ‘Black Talking on the Streets’ in Bauman & Sherzer Ethnography of Speaking 256: For my Philadelphia informants [. . .] the most common term at that time [c. 1970] for shucking was jiving, or, among the older people, jitterbugging or bugging . ‘Black Talking on the Streets’ in Bauman & Sherzer Ethnography of Speaking 254: [A]ny of the terms for signifying may be used negatively, like talking shit (now with an emphasis on the last word) or woofing. Older terms are spouting and muckty muck (Major 1970) and boogerbooing or beating your gums (Hurston 1942).