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The Dispossessed: A Study of the Sex Lives of Bantu Women choose

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[UK] G. Wagner Dispossessed 55: Absoballylutely raving, I mean.
at absoballylutely, adv.
[UK] L. Longmore Dispossessed 218: Regular customers are usually given a free drink on certain occasions in order to remove what is called babalazi.
at babalaas, n.
[UK] L. Longmore Dispossessed 139: The practice of having a ‘back-door husband’, or indulging in prostitution, is a natural outcome of the poverty of urban Africans.
at back-door man (n.) under back-door, n.
[UK] L. Longmore Dispossessed 40: A mother: Ja, you Shoeshoe women!! You are terrible ‘pennylines’! You pull your labia minora in order to grab our husbands. One day I shall cut off those ‘long curtains’!
at curtains, n.2
[UK] L. Longmore Dispossessed 32: Inevitably comes the day when he fancies someone else and tries to get rid of his vat en sit woman.
at vat en sit, n.
[UK] L. Longmore Dispossessed 250: Tsotsis have their own secret language known as flaaitaal or tsotsi slang, which is continually being improved on and added to. These flaaitaals differ from city to city and even in different parts of the cities [DSAE].
at fly taal (n.) under fly, adj.
[UK] L. Longmore Dispossessed n.p.: You Shoeshone women! You are terrible ‘pennylines’!
at pennyline (n.) under penny, n.
[UK] L. Longmore Dispossessed 180: [...] Very rarely is there enough evidence to arrest the shebeen ‘queen’.
at shebeen queen (n.) under shebeen, n.
[UK] L. Longmore Dispossessed 180: Thousands of gallons of barberton were poured away, but not one shebeen was permanently closed down.
at shebeen, n.
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