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Brown Girl, Brownstones choose

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[US] P. Marshall Brown Girl, Brownstones (1960) 31: ‘You know every Sat’day he does run bird-speed to the concubine.’ [...] Virgie roared her disapproval. ‘Nobody din say he can’t have the hot-ass woman but, c’dear, his own got to come first.’.
at hot-arsed, adj.
[US] P. Marshall Brown Girl, Brownstones (1960) 36: Be-Jees, you just try moving me from this house. You just try!
at bejazus!, excl.
[US] P. Marshall Brown Girl, Brownstones (1960) 39: You can know all the accounting there is, these people still not gon have you up in their fancy office and pulling down the same money as them.
at pull down, v.
[US] P. Marshall Brown Girl, Brownstones (1960) 31: He got piece of ground home, soul.
at ground, n.
[US] P. Marshall Brown Girl, Brownstones (1960) 32: He was gon be a mechanic. [...] Then it was radio repairing and radio guts spill all over the house.
at gut, n.
[US] P. Marshall Brown Girl, Brownstones (1960) 24: Oh Christ-Jesus, woman, why reef up that? [Ibid.] 30: ‘Silla, hush. It don do no good to reef up’. ‘Reef up? Virgie, I has never forgot.’.
at reef up, v.
[US] P. Marshall Brown Girl, Brownstones (1960) 32: Soul, I don know.
at soul, n.2
[US] P. Marshall Brown Girl, Brownstones (1960) 31: Yes, they gon be spreeing tonight.
at spree, v.
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