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Phases of Barbados Life 123: He kept chanting with every movement of the bow, ‘Good enough music for poor backra’.at backra, n.
Phases of Barbados Life 123: He kept chanting with every movement of the bow, ‘Good enough music for poor backra’. Phases of Barbados Life 13: A poor white creole [...] could hardly stalk abroad in Georgetown but cruel cries greeted his appearance in the open of ‘Backra Johnnie bite a pepper; swear to Gawd he bite a nigger’.at backra johnny (n.) under backra, adj.
Phases of Barbados Life 3: A letter appeared in the Daily Argosy (Demerara) asking the origin of the word [...] ‘Bimshire’, a name designated to Barbados. [Ibid.] 55: Fond as the ‘Bim’ is of his possessions in the way of pigs and goats, he never loves them sufficiently to resist the temptation of selling them at a profit.at Bim, n.
Phases of Barbados Life 11: The ‘Red-Leg Johnnies’ of Barbados. [...] In giving evidence before the Royal Commission in January 1897 [...] the late Mr. Quintin Hogg told the Commissioners that; ‘mean whites’, or ‘Red legs’ – families who have now been in some cases over three centuries in the island [...] and the sun has given those parts of the body exposed to it a colour which finds its expression in the local name of ‘Red Legs’.at redleg (n.) under red, adj.
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