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The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer choose

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[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 366: But I forgive the blackguard all his sins [...] even his bamfoozling me.
at bamfoozle, v.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 174: I want a drink. I want a glass o’ this blurry Jamaica bilgewater o’ your’n – neat.
at bilgewater, n.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 379: By the living bilgewater! [...] that’s a woman.
at bilgewater, n.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 395: She war a blame fine woman.
at blame, adv.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 173: I struck a blurry match, but I couldn’t find my blurry ship.
at blurry, adj.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 324: De feller dat wins de throw ob de dice he’s goin’ to take de whole boilin’.
at whole boiling lot, n.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 227: Glory be sugared! [...] so long as folks git buzzin’ along through life wid happiness and comfort.
at buzz, v.1
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 9: Who’s the most chuckle-headed idiot in the crowd?
at chuckleheaded, adj.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 313: Dat feller he wipes up de bank – and no udder gen’elman puts his hands on to de table till dat bank’s done cleaned up.
at clean up, v.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 315: De gen’el man wid four spots cleans de table!
at clean, v.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 322: I call dat a dam-silly story.
at damn, adv.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 400: Yo’ dirty low egg-suckin’ li’l nigger, yo!
at egg-sucking, adj.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 13: He filched a staff of sugar-cane from a sleeping street-seller’s basket.
at filch, v.1
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 171: All t’udder talk are flam-blam foolishness.
at flim-flam, adj.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 319: Yo’ blamed flat-footed ijiot!
at flat-footed, adj.1
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 119: The man who kept the common lodging-house and grog-shop at Kingston.
at grog shop (n.) under grog, n.1
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 93: I isn’t goin’ to bustle round and git de high-strikes on account of my man runnin’ arter anudder woman.
at highstrikes, n.
[US] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 8: ‘Huh! I’ll learn yo’ manners, yo’ dirty – black – hog-wallowin’ --’ She stammered in her fury, searching for epithets.
at hog island (n.) under hog, n.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 398: Shootin’-irons dey was not in his providence.
at shooting iron, n.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 320: And wid dat I creep’d along behime de gravestones, jukin’ along like I was a blamed tom-cat. [Ibid.] 391: I know’d it from de evenin’ my Jake found he jukin’ into we’s hen-roost de time he was li’l more dan a chile.
at juke, v.1
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 313: De jack counts for eleven and de lady for twelve.
at lady, n.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 95: I’s got no patience wid ’em, dese here B’bayados niggers. Thank Gahd, me mother she come’d out o’ Louisianna – dey grow proper coloured folks in Louisianna.
at nigger, n.1
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 33: I overthrow’d him down in de pumkin-piece.
at pumpkin, n.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 55: I likes de laughin’, jokin’, tow-row sort o’ folks meself.
at tow row, adj.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 241: Sh-sh-sh-she ackshilly called me a blasted skut!
at scut, n.2
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 307: I ax’d she to take de floor wid me and shake a leg.
at shake a leg (v.) under shake, v.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 13: ‘So git along, sonny, and play!’ she called.
at son, n.1
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 396: She got drinkin’ too much o’ dem ’Merykin liquors dey call ‘slings’ and ‘soothers’.
at soother, n.
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 325: Keep yo’r heads cool, boys, don’t yo’ git yo’r wool tangled into knots!
at wool, n.1
[UK] H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 14: My mother’s she’s comin’ back for me [...] Den peradventure she’s goin’ to pull yo’ wool for yo’.
at pull someone’s wool (v.) under wool, n.1
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