1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 159: Their compliments of respect and friendship, when speaking of or to each other, is Uncle, Aunty, Granny, Tatta, Momma, Sista, Boda.at aunt, n.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 78: Their black husbands, or poor bockra partners, being neglected.at backra, n.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 76: Clysterpipe, who is Doctor Bolus’s brother is very attentive.at bolus, n.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 31: Buboes, shankers, & c. are the effects of ill-cured venerials.at bube, n.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 155: My mamma curse her, ‘lying bitch!’ / And tell her, ‘buss my rassa!’.at buss me rass! (excl.) under buss, v.1
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 131: Wind him so! Work him so! Hold him so! Jig him so! Kackkaw foa you!at caca, n.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 28: The first symptom of a c--p is a prickling pain, and afterwards a scalding in making of water.at clap, n.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 109: Creole misses, when scarcely ten, / Cock their eyes and long for men.at cock one’s eye (v.) under cock, v.4
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 35: There are some good taverns, [...] also an incredible number of petty ones, called grog shops, occupied by people of the vilest characters.at grog shop (n.) under grog, n.1
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 113: Even their poor faithful slaves [...] whose calibashes they often assisted to drain, when full of high-seasoned pepperpot, are become filthy brutes or hottentots to them.at Hottentot, n.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 157: Tajo, tao, tajo! my mackey massa! [...] I’ll please my mackey massa! I’ll jig to mackey massa! / I’ll sweet my mackey massa!at jig, v.1
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 157: Tajo, tao, tajo! my mackey massa! [...] I’ll please my mackey massa! I’ll jig to mackey massa! / I’ll sweet my mackey massa!.at mack, adj.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 111: They [...] are obligated to negroe and mungrel wenches for the principal part of their education.at mongrel, adj.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 123: A Mestee [...] is begot between a white and a Mulatto.at mustee, n.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 117: Me quite sorry mamma, Ise went in a bush to-day to do my -------, and Yellow Legs come, and he knaum my ----, and him puke.at nyam, v.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 155: Him get one pickinniny, white! / Almost as white as missess.at piccaninny, n.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 31: Should you at any time be affected with these stages of the p-x, be very studious to get yourself [...] properly cured.at pox, n.1
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 106: When pepperpot and wine his blood alarms, / He takes a quashiba unto his arms, / The melting object pleas’d, then takes her hoe / And works and sings ’till night – ‘Tajo, tajo!’.at quashiba, n.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 157: Tajo, tao, tajo! my mackey massa! [...] I’ll please my mackey massa! I’ll jig to mackey massa! / I’ll sweet my mackey massa!at sweet, v.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 153: If me want for go in a Congo, / Me can’t go there! / Since dem tief me from my tatta, / Me can’t go there!at tata, n.1
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 153: If me want for go in a Congo, / Me can’t go there! / Since dem tief me from my tatta, / Me can’t go there!at t’ief, v.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 159: Their compliments of respect and friendship, when speaking of or to each other, is Uncle, Aunty, Granny, Tatta, Momma, Sista, Boda.at uncle, n.
1793 J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 52: A respite very short to sleep or to wake, / And to play with a yellow, or a black snake* [...] *A name of girls of colour.at yellow snake (n.) under yellow, adj.