1898 H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 366: But I forgive the blackguard all his sins [...] even his bamfoozling me.at bamfoozle, v.
1898 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.
1898 H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 379: By the living bilgewater! [...] that’s a woman.at bilgewater, n.
1898 H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 173: I struck a blurry match, but I couldn’t find my blurry ship.at blurry, adj.
1898 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.
1898 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
1898 H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 9: Who’s the most chuckle-headed idiot in the crowd?at chuckleheaded, adj.
1898 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.
1898 H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 315: De gen’el man wid four spots cleans de table!at clean, v.
1898 H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 400: Yo’ dirty low egg-suckin’ li’l nigger, yo!at egg-sucking, adj.
1898 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
1898 H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 171: All t’udder talk are flam-blam foolishness.at flim-flam, adj.
1898 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
1898 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.
1898 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.
1898 H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 398: Shootin’-irons dey was not in his providence.at shooting iron, n.
1898 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
1898 H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 313: De jack counts for eleven and de lady for twelve.at lady, n.
1898 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
1898 H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 33: I overthrow’d him down in de pumkin-piece.at pumpkin, n.
1898 H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 55: I likes de laughin’, jokin’, tow-row sort o’ folks meself.at tow row, adj.
1898 H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 241: Sh-sh-sh-she ackshilly called me a blasted skut!at scut, n.2
1898 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.
1898 H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 13: ‘So git along, sonny, and play!’ she called.at son, n.1
1898 H. Macfall Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer 396: She got drinkin’ too much o’ dem ’Merykin liquors dey call ‘slings’ and ‘soothers’.at soother, n.
1898 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
1898 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