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[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 211: He did not return to her for three days. Then he was battered, unkempt, and thick of speech.
at battered, adj.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 47: Well, suh, [...] ef you ain’t the beatenes’ man to fin’ out things I evah seen.
at beat, adj.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 211: ‘Well, you’re a beauty,’ she said finally, with cutting scorn.
at beauty, n.1
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 11: Hit sho’ do mek’ him biggety, an’ a biggety po’ niggah is a ’bomination befo’ de face of de Lawd.
at biggity, adj.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 74: Oh, yes, you’re done with burr-heads, are you? But burr-heads are good enough fu’ you now.
at burrhead, n.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 98: Mr. Thomas is a case, sho’.
at case, n.1
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 131: Mr. Meriweather will now favour us with the latest coon song.
at coon song (n.) under coon, n.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 175: What do you want to give her all that co’n for? She’ll never get in.
at corn, n.2
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 163: What are you looking so cut up about?
at cut up, adj.1
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 167: When, as she would have expressed it, ‘everything was going fat,’ she suddenly paused.
at fat, adv.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 96: You kin bet your life they ain’t no flies on N’Yawk.
at no flies on..., phr.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 183: Don’t be afraid to move. Step like a chicken on a hot griddle!
at like a hen on a hot griddle under hot, adj.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 97: I’m one o’ them kin’ o’ men ’at believe in whooping things up [...] let’s have some beer, an’ we’ll have some music purty soon.
at whoop it up, v.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest of Fate (1903) 58: Hit’s de livin’ trufe.
at living, adj.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 212: Well, you know what I told you the last time you got loaded? I mean it too.
at loaded, adj.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest of Fate (1903) 64: I’ll nevah be able to git a job ag’in. Me in de lock-up – me, aftah all dese yeahs!
at lockup, n.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 215: Been lushin’ a bit, eh?
at lush, v.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest of Fate (1903) 57: Mistah Rich Niggah [...] He wanted to dress his wife an’ chillen lak white folks.
at Mr, n.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest of Fate (1903) 72: You say dat you couldn’t git a paih of sheahs thoo a niggah’s naps.
at naps, n.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 98: There’s a fellah in the house ’at plays rag-time out o’ sight.
at out of sight, adv.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 100: He’s out o’ sight, I tell you.
at out of sight, adj.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 54: An honest, sensible negro, and the pink of good servants.
at pink, n.
[US] P.L. Dunbar Jest Of Fate (1903) 107: He looked with new feeling at the swaggering, sporty young negroes.
at sporty, adj.
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