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A Walk in the Night choose

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[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 17: I don’t give a damn for a bastard white arse.
at arse, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 73: ‘Ah effit,’ Willieboy sneered. ‘You bare-arsed bastard. You got nothing.’.
at bare-arsed, adj.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 43: Another man rattling the dice and saying, ‘Come, baby, make nick. Make nick’.
at baby, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 99: What’s that basket up to?
at basket, n.2
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 43: Maybe I ought to go and tell them. Bedonerd. You know what the law will do to you. They don’t have any shit from us brown people.
at bedonderd, adj.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 117: Kenny hold his hands together and shake them over his head to the crowd like the champion in the beece, which is what we call a cinema.
at beece, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 17: While he’s in the big-house [i.e. Pretoria] Flippy gets to hearing about Cully messing around with his goose.
at big house, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 78: What do you think this is? The bio? Cowboys and crooks?
at bio, n.1
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 6: He ain’t like you blerry gangsters.
at blerry, adj.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 22: ‘Where are you off to, bokkie?’ ‘Bioscope.’.
at bokkie, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 44: Jesus, and he was a white man, too. Well, what’s he want to come and live here among us browns for?
at brown, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 53: Listen, Gipsy, what you let the girls mess with these boggers for?
at bugger, n.1
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 4: I don’t work. Never worked a bogger yet [...] Work. Eff work.
at bugger, n.3
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 64: All right, the rest of you can bogger off.
at bugger off, v.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 26: Aw, go to buggery.
at go to buggery! (excl.) under buggery, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 18: Man, that john was a bastard of a hardcase.
at hard case, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 32: Here I am right out of chink.
at chink, n.1
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 55: ‘God, I’ll chop you,’ Willieboy shouted and reached for his jacket pocket. ‘Watch out for his knife,’ Gipsy shouted.
at chop, v.2
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 82: Get back, you donders. You’ll get hurt.
at donder, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 27: Want a dop, Uncle Doughty?
at dop, n.1
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 68: You don’t have to worry niks, Mikey. We okay. We don’t give an eff for the law.
at eff, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 73: ‘Ah effit,’ Willieboy sneered. ‘You bare-arsed bastard. You got nothing.’.
at eff, v.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 4: ‘Strolling again. Got pushed out of my job in the facktry.’ ‘How come then?’ ‘Answered back to a effing white rooker. Foreman.’.
at effing, adj.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 16: Been driving those Yankees [...] to whorehouses. Those johns are full of money. Just blowing it away on goosies.
at goosie, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 31: If you’re not bloody fed-up with riding around looking at these effing hotnot bastards, let’s go. [Ibid.] 79: The way he behaved in that place, sneering and putting on in front of those hotnots.
at hotnot, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 39: Let these hottentots kill each other off for all I care.
at Hottentot, n.
[SA] A. La Guma A Walk in the Night (1968) 13: A balding Jew called Mister Ike served behind the bar.
at Ike, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 47: I wonder where in Jesus Sockies is.
at Jesus, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 4: Me, I never work for no white john. [Ibid.] 115: You know you can’t fight no white john here.
at John, n.
[SA] A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 80: ‘Stand still, jong,’ Raalt shouted.
at jong, n.1
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