1937 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.
1937 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.
1937 Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 32: The sow-belly in the pan needed turning.at sow-belly, n.
1937 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.
1937 Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 28: De man dat built things oughta boss it.at boss, v.
1937 Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 149: She’ll die butt-headed.at butthead (n.) under butt, n.1
1937 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
1937 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
1937 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.
1937 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.
1937 Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 9: Dere wuz uh knotty head gal name Mayrella.at knot-headed, adj.
1937 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.
1937 Z.N. Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1998) 6: Dese zigaboos is so het up over yo’ business.at jigaboo, n.
1937 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.
1937 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.
1937 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.
1937 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.
1937 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
1937 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.
1937 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.