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When Me Was A Boy 36: Yuh mother wi ’low yuh fi wear yuh new baggy-foot pants an sailor-boy shirt.at baggies, n.
When Me Was A Boy 36: Yuh mother wi ’low yuh fi wear yuh new baggy-foot pants an sailor-boy shirt. When Me Was A Boy 30: I am goin’ to encounter a pit latrine. Down the hill from the yard on a moonless night with a piece of ole newspaper an a ‘kitchen bitch’ lamp.at bitch, n.2
When Me Was A Boy 142: ‘Indecent language’ as them did call ‘bad wud’ a courthouse, was a serious offence [...] so although yuh coulda pop few ‘bluelight’ in the privacy of yuh own frien’ them, yuh never use none if girls aroun.at blue light, n.3
When Me Was A Boy 35: Yuh feel bosie wid yuh new trim.at bosie, adj.
When Me Was A Boy 43: In them days Rae Town was a high class residential area. Mostly British and high colour Jamaican did live down there.at high-brown, adj.
When Me Was A Boy 133: One day ah see a chink – y’nuh know, a bed bug – inna one a them.at chinch, n.1
When Me Was A Boy 15: Them used to call police Corpie.at corpie, n.1
When Me Was A Boy 103: All dem other ones used to tease ‘Miss Cubba’ an ‘Mother Warner’ an ‘Bun-Down-Cross’.at cubba, n.
When Me Was A Boy 152: The ‘Johnny Cubba’ is suppose to be the invention of what everybody did agree was the best floor cleaner [...] Can you imagine how I did frighten when I fine out that Miss Cubba was a man?at cubba, n.
When Me Was A Boy 122: Plenty of us boys woulda put ‘fip’ – that’s threepence or six cents if y’like – inna Son palm.at fip, n.
When Me Was A Boy 17: Then yuh get fippance – that’s like half a five cent.at fippence, n.
When Me Was A Boy 144: Woman was doin’ them bes’ fi show off them frame. The two-piece bath suit began to use less an less material.at frame, n.1
When Me Was A Boy 148: Puss or ‘crepe sole’ shoes was the joggers of them times. That was mostly fi the girls. ‘GB’ was fi boys.at g.b., n.2
When Me Was A Boy 153: ‘Leggins’ was a couple slice a pumpkin, a plant a skellion, maybe a carrot, sometimes a turnip an a branch of thyme [...] That portion of ‘leggins’ sell fi penny ha’penny.at leggings, n.
When Me Was A Boy 123: When me was a boy [...] green banana use to be known as ‘long grain rice’. That was durin’ the war time when we couldn’ get white rice from Hong Kong. [...] The banana vendor who use to get the attention was the one that sey ‘Jamaican long grain rice! Pap boil them!’.at long grain rice (n.) under long, adj.
When Me Was A Boy 70: We boys wi fine some ole half mash up train set wid some a the line missin.at mash-up, adj.
When Me Was A Boy 65: Slim an Sam, one was tall and mawga an the other one shorter and fat.at mauger, adj.
When Me Was A Boy 43: A Little Monkeyshines.at monkey shine, n.
When Me Was A Boy 148: Puss or ‘crepe sole’ shoes was the joggers of them times.at puss, n.1
When Me Was A Boy 17: That’s two egg and a quattie gone like Sammy mout’.at quattie, n.
When Me Was A Boy 133: When me was a boy [...] dem did have two bus that used to robot all over Kingston.at robot, v.
When Me Was A Boy 118: Jamaican musicians of those days used to learn how to play the music of the day by listenin’ to them records. An wi did have some rygin musicians them time.at rygin, adj.
When Me Was A Boy 146: Them did have a film up deh name ‘Thief of Bagdad’. [...] an it did have een a young Indian actor name Sabu. Well sah that little youth start a fashion inna this town that las’ for years to come. A hairstyle call the Sab. Man stop part them hair an grow it high wid the neck back cut square [...] Nuh more short back an sides [...] Tell Mr Thomas ah want a ‘Sab’.at sab, n.
When Me Was A Boy 8: The big boy them at the back a class an him was to bruk it up on the quiet an sen up the pieces to [...] everybody who was in on the sweetie scufflin’.at scuffle, v.
When Me Was A Boy 15: There was a red seam policemen that them used to call Mawga Lion.at red seam (n.) under seam, n.
When Me Was A Boy 18: Nice! When yuh bite yuh warm crus’ an yuh suck yuh cold snowball.at snowball, n.2
When Me Was A Boy 129: When me was a boy [...] East Queen Street was like the northern border of commercial Kingston. Above there was residential and more top-a-naris.at topanaris, n.
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