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[SA] B. Modisane Blame me on Hist. 13: Look, Bra-Bloke, this is money.
at bra, n.
[SA] B. Modisane Blame me on Hist. 67: We never hesitated to use violence against the tsotsis, the bull-catchers, who attacked, robbed and stripped people.
at bull-catcher (n.) under bull, n.1
[SA] B. Modisane Blame me on Hist. 57: ‘Heit, bricade,’ he said, ‘this is my cheerie; take a walk, friend, this cheerie is a rubberneck – a real Delilah’. ‘Why, friend,’ I said, bluffing a man I knew by reputation as the knife terror of Alexandra Township. ‘She’s also my cheerie.’ ‘Don’t get hot running, friend,’ he said, removing his jacket. ‘Take a walk, bricade.’.
at cherry, n.1
[SA] B. Modisane Blame me on History (1986) 56: It was the luxury we called ‘dog’s meat’, from the stories told around the locations that kitchen girls served their boy friends dishes prepared from the rations for the dogs, which were fed more nutritiously than the children of the locations.
at dog’s meat, n.
[SA] B. Modisane Blame me on Hist. 50: The boys were expensively dressed in a stunning ensemble of colour; ‘Jewished’ in their phraseology.
at jewish, v.
[SA] B. Modisane Blame me on Hist. 24: Two white police constables [...] were demanding to see the Passes of all adult African males. ‘Pass jong, kaffir.’.
at jong, n.1
[SA] B. Modisane Blame Me on Hist. (1986) 36: Because my mother was black she was despised and humiliated, called ‘kafir meid’. [Ibid.] 58: This kaffir meid. my baas, was trying to trick me into sleeping in her room, but I know it is against the law.
at kaffirmeid (n.) under kaffir, adj.
[SA] B. Modisane Blame me on Hist. 53: Kill a black man and it’s three years. [...] They like it when the perkies, the monkeys, kill each other.
at pekkie, n.
[SA] B. Modisane Blame me on Hist. 57: ‘Heit, bricade,’ he said, ‘this is my cheerie; take a walk, friend, this cheerie is a rubberneck – a real Delilah.’.
at rubberneck, n.
[SA] B. Modisane Blame me on Hist. 7: ‘You bloody shit house,’ he said.
at shithouse, n.
[SA] B. Modisane Blame Me on Hist. (1986) 94: The educated African is resented equally by the blacks because he speaks English, which is one of the symbols of white supremacy, he is resentfully called a Situation, something not belonging to either, but tactfully situated between white oppression and black rebellion.
at situation, n.
[SA] B. Modisane Blame me on Hist. 37: Bring those stink pots out.
at stinkpot, n.
[SA] B. Modisane Blame me on Hist. 57: ‘Don’t get hot running, friend,’ he said, removing his jacket. ‘Take a walk, bricade.’.
at take a walk (v.) under walk, n.
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