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Jam. Song and Story 182: 8 quatties 1 shilling or maccaroni. 10 quatties mac-o-fuppence.at mac-and-fuppence, n.
Jam. Song and Story 182: 8 quatties 1 shilling or maccaroni. 10 quatties mac-o-fuppence. ‘John Crow & Fowl-Hawk’ in Jam. Song and Story 141: Hawk get down Dog hit him bam.at bam!, excl.
Jam. Song and Story 12: His speech is Bungo talk.at bungo, adj.
Jam. Song and Story 12: His speech is Bungo talk.at bungo-talk (n.) under bungo, adj.
Jam. Song and Story 12: The Jamaican looks down on the Bungo (rhymes with Mungo) who ‘no ’peak good English’.at bungo, n.
Jam. Song and Story 61: So Annancy begin to raise a confusion over it...An’ ’creech-owl began to cry. [Ibid.] 135–6: One day Mr Annancy an’ Monkey, made a bargain to kill Tiger, an’ they didn’ know how to make the confusion for Tiger was Monkey godfather... An’ that time Puss was passing when the confusion occurred [DJE].at confusion, n.
in Jam. Song and Story 205: Drill him, Constab, drill him; She tief her mother shilling [...] Wheel him, Constab, wheel him.at constab, n.
Jam. Song and Story 234: Soldier da go way tomorrow, / The last of the ring ding tomorrow.at ring-ding, n.1
‘Dummy’ in Jam. Song and Story 84: There was a man couldn’ talk, called Dummy.at dummy, n.1
‘Open Sesame’ in Jam. Song and Story 121: He meet Tacoma on the road an’ through his strongy yeye an’ his ungratefulness he wanted to shoot Tacoma.at strong-eye, n.
Jam. Song and Story 161: ‘Fuppence’ is fivepence, but means threepence.at fippence, n.
Jam. Song and Story 46: They made a bargain between themselves that, when the Ratta deep in dancing, Doba must out the lamp, then the licking-match commence [DJE].at licking-match (n.) under licking, n.
‘Yung-Kyum-Pyung’ in Jam. Song and Story 12: The old-witch had a ’mash-up side.at mash-up, adj.
‘Chicken-Hawk’ in Jam. Song and Story 94: They get Monkey an’ Goat to come an’ dance to let the sister laugh. They make all sort of mechanic.at mechanic, n.
‘Annancy and Brother Tiger’ in Jam. Song and Story 7: Yeshterday this time me a nyam Tiger fat.at nyam, v.
‘Toad & Donkey’ in Jam. Song and Story 40: Now Toad have twenty picny.at pickney, n.
Jam. Song and Story 18: 2 gills 1 quatty (quarter of a sixpence, pronounced quotty).at quattie, n.
Jam. Song and Story 4: Negro. Short-mout’ed . English. Quick at repartee.at short-mouthed (adj.) under short, adj.1
‘Calcutta Monkey and Annancy’ in Jam. Song and Story 117: Monkey went to Annancy yard an’ suspish upon Annancy.at suspish, v.
‘Blackbird and Woss-Woss’ in Jam. Song and Story 24: The fellow so sweet-mout’ say in cross way ‘No’.at sweetmouth, adj.
Jam. Song and Story 24: The fellow so sweet-mout’ [DJE].at sweetmouth, adj.
‘Old Lady & the Jar’ in Jam. Song and Story 137: A old lady have two sons, one name Dory Dun an’ one name Tumpa Toe. [...] Notes. Tumpa, stump. A man who has lost his arm is called a tumpa-hand man.at tumpa, n.
‘Yung-Kyum-Pyung’ in Jam. Song and Story 12: Sometime him gone run ’pon him rope an tief cow fe him wife.at t’ief, v.
‘Toad & Donkey’ in Jam. Song and Story 39: Donkey get very vex about it.at vex, adj.
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