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[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 146: It’s just a small daycare and I’m head cook and bottle washer.
at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 15: Iyah Nyah looked at him and smiled.
at I and I, n.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 39: She didn’t have the patience to deal with this smart-ass Jamaican woman.
at smart-arsed, adj.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 117: Chuckie’s babymadda – she tell di police all sort of lies pon me.
at baby-mother (n.) under baby, n.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 98: He watched helplessly as they led Tuffy and two others outside to a cruiser. [...] He went back to the kitchen cursing Babylon.
at Babylon, n.1
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 121: Yuh tink I like fi send Aiesha to dis Babylon daycare, eh?
at Babylon, n.1
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 21: Listen, gal pickney, nuh give me no backchat.
at backchat, n.1
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 76: All dem haffi do is mek an example of di cop dat murder di youth and bag him, New York style.
at bag, v.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 138: Who di bloodclaat is Anthony, eh?
at blood claat, n.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 168: ‘Dat last draw was boom.’ [...] ‘Is a wicked draw of herbs.’.
at boom, adj.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 173: Sheba and Josephine waited in line outside a booze can housed in an old warehouse. [...] As cars pulled up and their passengers scrambled out, the line outside the warehouse grew until at last the doors opened to loud blasts of music.
at booze can (n.) under booze, n.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 180: ‘Fight a bruk inna di dance!’ he heard someone say. ‘It look like two women a fight over a man,’ another added.
at bruk, n.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 92: Unnu tink a big bumbo claat woman like me have time fi play wid unnu lickle rass claat bwoy pickney, eeh?
at bumbo-claat, n.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 131: Dem tear down me gates and find mi rings and two weights of herbs. Cho!
at cha!, excl.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 155: ‘Sing us a song den.’ ‘Yeah, man, let us chant down Babylon.’.
at chant down (v.) under chant, v.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 88: Stick it up, Chiney bwoy! Put all di money in dis bag.
at Chinee, adj.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 92: Wah yuh doin man? [...] We inna nuff trouble widout tek on more. Cool out, man.
at cool out, v.2
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 85: It belong to dis Rastaman who teach us all sort a tings. Di man crushal.
at crucial, adj.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 98: He watched helplessly as they led Tuffy and two others outside to a cruiser. [...] He went back to the kitchen cursing Babylon.
at cruiser, n.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 71: When yuh play a trick pon someone or skip school, she will drape yuh up real hard.
at drape up (v.) under drape, v.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 51: One of the best draws of herb she had ever smoked.
at draw, n.2
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 41: Bwoy, yuh fass.
at fas’, v.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 131: Di Bwoy jook mi dung wid him .32 and hold on pon mi hand. Mi jus flash him off and pull out mi .45.
at flash off (v.) under flash, v.4
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 35: No wonder yuh ask a fool-fool question like dat.
at foo-foo, adj.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 131: Yuh wanna see how dem ransack mi gates. Two of dem grab mi and throw dun pon mi bed [...] All dem find a jus mi and mi dawta.
at gates, n.1
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 131: Ah guess mi is di guinea pig. So dem charge yuh too?
at guinea pig, n.1
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 33: Pointing to a woman in an old-fashioned dress, a man standing nearby joined in, ‘Ku heng-pon-nail, eh?’.
at heng-pon-nail, n.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 37: Why yuh tink him is a herbsman? Yuh tink selling ganja is di most important ting in life, eh? [Ibid.] 65: Rummaging through the drawer where Iration Dread kept the herbs, she picked a long bud.
at herb, n.1
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 82: I really like down deh. Iration Dread really irie.
at irie, adj.
[WI] M. Montague Dread Culture 176: As long as a man don’t abuse yuh, ital or low-tal, mi tink yuh should go for it.
at ital, adj.
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