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[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 67: You really spec’s me to believe youse been associating with the mucty-mucks of the race? Gwan with you.
at muck-a-muck, n.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 215: I had to quit her or she would have made me either a no-’count or a bad nigger.
at no-account, n.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 104: Ain’t got no time for cheap- no-’count niggers.
at no-account nigger (n.) under no-account, adj.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 26: Oh, Jakie, Jake! What a big Ah-Ah you is.
at ah-ah, n.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 53: Zeddy, the ape, who was scared of no man in the place, became humble before the woman.
at ape, n.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 47: Come on, let’s haul bottom away from here.
at haul ass, v.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 171: Don’t gimme no back talk, nigger waiter.
at back-talk, n.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 298: I don’t want no trouble and he’s a bad actor, that nigger.
at bad actor (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 130: ‘Bumbole’ was now a popular expletive for Jake, replacing such expressions as ‘Bull,’ ‘bawls,’ ‘walnuts,’ and ‘blimey.’ Ever since the night at the Congo when he heard the fighting West Indian girl cry, ‘I’ll slap you bumbole,’ he had always used the word. When his friends asked him what it meant, he grinned and said, ‘Ask the monks’.
at balls!, excl.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 307: They were quarreling over a vain black bantam, one of the breed that delight in women’s scratching over them.
at bantam, n.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 287: Ise got a A number one little barker I’ll give it to you.
at barker, n.1
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 14: Lenox Avenue, you’re a bear, I know it.
at bear, n.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 6: Then the boat plows round and run off and leaves me behind. Kain you beat that, Buddy?
at can you beat it? under beat, v.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 38: If he was a ‘big nigger’ perhaps—but she was too high-priced for him.
at big, adj.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 63: You might live your life in many black belts and arrive at the conclusion that there is no such thing as a typical Negro.
at black belt (n.) under black, adj.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 47: One iron-heavy, blue-black lad [...] carried his arm in a sling.
at blue-black (adj.) under blue, adj.6
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 19: Tha’s some stuff you’re strutting in, boh.
at bo, n.1
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 22: We was always on the defensive, as if the boches, as the froggies called them, was right down on us.
at Boche, n.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 285: The whole wul’ is boody-crazy.
at booty, n.2
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 19: We got some more stuff to booze over.
at booze, v.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 213: Boozing and poking and rooting around, jolly enough all right, but not altogether contented.
at boozing, n.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 46: Let the boss-men stick them jobs up.
at boss man (n.) under boss, n.2
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 3: I’m crazy to see again the brown-skin chippies ’long Lenox Avenue. Oh boy!
at oh boy!, excl.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 64: The lawyers [...] cleaned him out dry. Done broke him, that case did.
at break, v.1
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 34: Well, I’ll be browned!
at brown, v.3
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 287: Youse a punk customer, then, I tell you [...] and no real buddy o’ mine.
at buddy, n.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 53: It ain’t no moh than last week they done raided Madame Jerkin’s, the niftiest buffet flat in Harlem.
at buffet (flat), n.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 63: ‘Don’t bull me.’ ‘I ain’t. Honest-to-Gawd Gordon Dry, and moh—ef you’re the goods, all f.o.c.’.
at bull, v.1
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 48: ‘I won’t scab on nobody, not even the orneriest crackers,’ he said. ‘Bull Durham!’ cried Zeddy.
at bull durham, n.
[US] C. McKay Home to Harlem 36: And there is two things in Harlem I don’t understand / It is a bulldycking woman and a faggotty man.
at bull-dyking, n.
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