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[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 108: He says, ‘Wa ’appen, son. Wa gwaan’.’.
at what a gwarn?, phr.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 109: So wa ’appen, man, we ’ave fe walk I-an-I, man.
at I and I, pron.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 179: ’Ere comes the shit breader!
at shit ass, n.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 141: Fucking rass! Rass bamba!
at bamba, n.1
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 180: Cha man! See mi sixtyone rass-up! Ya bambclaht.
at bambaclaat, n.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 140: Let ’im take it, big bahtyman!
at battyman (n.) under batty, n.2
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 87: The Old Bill come over, pushed the blokes away. What did ’e do? Nicked the black bloke for causin’ trouble.
at Old Bill, n.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 145: Move ya bloodclaht!
at blood claat, n.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 63: If they go to a blues – it’s their music, it’s packed, the atmosphere and all that.
at blues, n.3
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 116: Record decks and giant ‘boxes’ – loudspeakers.
at box, n.1
[UK] (ref. to 1970s) R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 100: In the 1970s the prevailing Jamaican ‘rude boy’ culture gave way to Rasta influence and to the ‘stylers.’.
at rude boy, n.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 22: Derek and Martin would do the business with all the George lot.
at do the business (v.) under business, n.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 60: When you walk past you see ’em and they say, ‘Cha! What you doin’ over dere wi’ dat white man.’.
at cha!, excl.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 129: chip – to take one’s leave.
at chip, v.3
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 130: The mixed form of ‘wretch-claht’, combining the insult ‘wretch’ from English with the Jamaican word ‘claht’ (cloth).
at wretch-claat, n.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 108: If you meet an older (black person) who looks a bit cruff (scruff) [...] then you just break into the Jamaican habit – patois.
at cruff, n.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 129: cruff – a scruffy person. [Ibid.] 130: ‘cruffbag’, where ‘cruff’ provided the Jamaican insult, and ‘bag’ indicated in English the gender of the recipient of the insult.
at cruff, n.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 87: Three white geezers were beatin’ the cunt out of a black bloke [...] They were kickin’ ’im to death.
at cunt, n.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 5471: She made me feel as if I was a criminal and I wanted to really go up and cuss her off, you know.
at cuss, v.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 154: In school, if a teacher gets on your nerves and they don’t know what you’re talking about, and you tell ’em to, say, ‘dig up’ or something, they don’t know what it means but you know what it means.
at dig up, v.2
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 21: There were other ‘firms’ of youngsters who were not necessarily associated with any one pub.
at firm, n.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 39: They walk along the street [...] don’t move out of the way. All along the street. Right Flash Harrys.
at flash harry (n.) under flash, adj.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 129: Go deh! / there! – exclamation of encouragement.
at go there! (excl.) under go, v.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 130: Wa’appen – friendly greeting.
at what happen? under happen, v.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 129: hard – excellent.
at hard, adj.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 117: Seh inna disya dance seh you smoke ganja ’ard.
at hard, adv.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 151: We used to say ‘hours’, when we were going home, instead of ‘later’, you know, like they say ‘later’ we say ‘hours’.
at hours, phr.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 109: Fe I-man never do not’n, na check wi’ dem fibes der, ya know.
at i-man, pron.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 121: Seh mi pour out mi I-tal curry.
at ital, adj.
[UK] R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 120: Den I said I burn up mi I-tal weed.
at ital, n.
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