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Their Eyes Were Watching God choose

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[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 13: Ah don’t want no trashy nigger, no breath-and-britches, lak Johnny Taylor usin’ yo body to wipe his foots on.
at breath-and-britches, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 49: You know dat all he do is big-belly round and tell other folks what tuh do. He loves obedience out of everybody under de sound of his voice.
at big-belly, v.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 32: The sow-belly in the pan needed turning.
at sow-belly, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 28: He meant to git dere whilst de town wuz a baby. He meant to buy in big.
at big, adv.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 28: De man dat built things oughta boss it.
at boss, v.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 149: She’ll die butt-headed.
at butthead (n.) under butt, n.1
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1995) 254: B’lieve Ah done cut uh hawg, so Ah guess Ah better ketch air.
at cut a hog (v.) under cut, v.2
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 141: Always singin’ ol’ nigger songs! Always cuttin’ de monkey for white folks.
at cut, v.3
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 31: Ah just as good as take you out de white folks’ kitchen and set you down on yo’ royal diasticutis.
at diasticutis, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 54: People always coming and asking for mail at the wrong time. [...] Get her so hackled she’d make the wrong change for stamps.
at hackle, v.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 9: Dere wuz uh knotty head gal name Mayrella.
at knot-headed, adj.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 58: Matt was wringing and twisting like a hen on a hot brick.
at like a hen on a hot griddle under hot, adj.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 6: Dese zigaboos is so het up over yo’ business.
at jigaboo, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 148: Right now she got enough money in de bank tuh buy up dese ziggaboos and giv ’em away.
at jigaboo, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 22: Ah know dat grassgut, liver-lipted nigger ain’t done took and beat mah baby already!
at liver-lipped (adj.) under liver-lips, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 151: Dey can’t come runnin’ over nice people and loud-talk no place whilst Ah’m around.
at loudtalk, v.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 32: Ah guess some low-lifed nigger is grinnin’ in yo’ face and lyin’ tuh yuh.
at lowlife, adj.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 138: You still love ole Nunkie?
at nunky, n.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 133: It was generally assumed that she thought herself too good to work like the rest of the women and that Tea Cake ‘pomped her up tuh dat’.
at pomp, n.2
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 35: Youse uh mite too previous for dat [...] Us ain’t got none yit.
at previous, adj.
[US] Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 13: Ah don’t want no trashy nigger, no breath-and-britches, lak Johnny Taylor.
at trashy, adj.
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