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West India Customs and Manners choose

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[WI] 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.
[WI] J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 78: Their black husbands, or poor bockra partners, being neglected.
at backra, n.
[WI] J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 76: Clysterpipe, who is Doctor Bolus’s brother is very attentive.
at bolus, n.
[WI] J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 31: Buboes, shankers, & c. are the effects of ill-cured venerials.
at bube, n.
[WI] 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
[WI] 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.
[WI] 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.
[WI] 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
[WI] 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
[WI] 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.
[WI] 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
[WI] 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.
[WI] 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.
[WI] J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 123: A Mestee [...] is begot between a white and a Mulatto.
at mustee, n.
[WI] 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.
[WI] J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 155: Him get one pickinniny, white! / Almost as white as missess.
at piccaninny, n.
[WI] 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
[WI] 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.
[WI] 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.
[WI] 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
[WI] 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.
[WI] 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.
[WI] 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.
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