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The Hills were Joyful Together choose

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[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 40: You see how my gal can back-chat me an’ get away with it?
at backchat, v.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 149: I wouldn’t make a woman ball me up like that. I’d see her dead in a ditch.
at ball up, v.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 54: It was about you’ cousin Emma who married now in America, an’ you bought belly-woman an’ big-water mark.
at belly-woman (n.) under belly, n.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 72: An’ Ditty she a big gal now caan help her [...] but ah-so today pickney stay, me Jesus, gal ah big-up like ooman now scasely can kip de one-room clean.
at big up, v.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 46: Cho man, Ah brush you off.
at brush off, v.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 69: I’m an old fowl now, chicken is what you want.
at chicken, n.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 33: The son of a Chinie-whore.
at Chinee, adj.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 34: Yuh better gwan ’bout yuh business, bwoy, Ah don’t feel to chop mout’ wid yuh today.
at chop it up (v.) under chop, v.1
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 37: The little monkey, the ugly little cow-son.
at cowson, n.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 87: If you mean cracking a crib I never done anything like that.
at crack a crib (v.) under crib, n.1
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 273: ‘John Crows,’ said Manny to Wilfie. ‘Jus’ like a lot of ole John Crows.’.
at John Crow, n.1
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 224: He wouldn’t mind sleeping with one of the younger flossies [...] in one of those flop-joints down that street.
at flop joint (n.) under flop, n.5
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 224: He could risk it, go to Hanover Street ... sleep with a whore ... he wouldn’t mind sleeping with one of the younger flossies.
at flossie, n.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 144: You gimme a pain in the guts.
at give someone a pain in the neck (v.) under pain (in the neck), n.1
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 57: The wind [...] going lickety-spit.
at lickety-split, adv.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 148: She isn’t worth it. Just a white-livered tramp.
at white-livered, adj.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 188: Try again, Mister Ass-hole.
at Mr, n.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 150: You know somep’n boy, she’d piss you up. That baby she’s tough. She’d make you piss.
at piss off, v.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 250: Ras said: ‘Howdy brother. Peace an’ love.’.
at peace, phr.
[WI] R. Mais Hills Were Joyful Together (1966) 195: You look sick as a turkey pee-pee.
at pee-pee, n.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 104: You must be tek me fo’ poppy-show.
at poppy-show, n.2
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 8: A pretty sambo girl.
at sambo, n.1
[WI] R. Mais Hills Were Joyful Together (1966) 39: It had been a good day’s scuffling.
at scuffle, v.
[WI] R. Mais Hills Were Joyful Together (1966) 19: Ras a no-good, hulkin’, small-time scuffler.
at scuffler, n.
[WI] R. Mais Hills Were Joyful Together (1966) 39: He never doubted that the Lord had somehow had a hand in his affairs that day, and many another scuffler felt the same.
at scuffler, n.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 61: Fellows who talking to her couldn’t keep their eyes off her tits, she all sexed-up an’ wanting to do things.
at sexed up (adj.) under sex, v.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 188: ‘Shit to you!’ said Chippie.
at shit on…! (excl.) under shit, v.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 56: It’s nothing [...] Some skin off my elbow, ’bout all.
at no skin off one’s nose under skin, n.1
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 214: He was smoking a spliff. He could smell the weed.
at spliff, n.
[WI] R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 33: Manny came up grinning at her in his over-bold force-ripe way, like he was hot in the pants.
at hot in the tail (adj.) under tail, n.
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