Green’s Dictionary of Slang
W.F. Allen Slave Songs of the U.S. 39: ‘The South Carolina Negroes never say Aunty and Uncle to old persons, but Daddy and Maumer, and all the white people say Daddy and Maumer to old black men and women’.at daddy, n.
W.F. Allen Slave Songs of the U.S. xxxvi: At a funeral in a colored regiment: ‘One box o’ dead meat gone to de grave to-day—who gwine to-morrow?’.at dead meat, n.
W.F. Allen Slave Songs of the U.S. xxviii: Gang for any large number; ‘a whole gang of slate-pencils’.at gang, n.1
W.F. Allen Slave Songs of the U.S. xxvi: Titty is used for mother or oldest sister; thus, Titty Ann was the name by which the children of our man-of-all work knew their mother, Ann.at titty, n.1
W.F. Allen Slave Songs of the U.S. xxvi: Titty is used for mother or oldest sister; thus, Titty Ann was the name by which the children of our man-of-all work knew their mother, Ann.at titty, n.2
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