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Down Second Avenue choose

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[US] E. Mphahlele Down Second Avenue 90: Boeta Lam (Brother Blade) from down our street easily collected a nice bunch of hangers-on.
at boet, n.
[US] E. Mphahlele Down Second Avenue 113: I fancy you, cherry.
at cherry, n.1
[US] E. Mphahlele Down Second Avenue 109: If hum coolie ju kaffir ten-times ju-self.
at coolie, n.1
[US] E. Mphahlele Down Second Avenue 42: Are you going to tell the truth, ‘jou donder’?
at donder, v.
[US] E. Mphahlele Down Second Avenue 109: Abdool I don’t want any dusty nonsense!
at dusty, adj.1
[US] E. Mphahlele Down Second Avenue 170: I was ‘Jimmed’ and ‘boy-ed’ and ‘John-ed’ by whites.
at Jim, n.1
[US] E. Mphahlele Down Second Avenue 124: Joh’burg boys rather frightened me.
at Joburg, n.
[US] E. Mphahlele Down Second Avenue 112: Hell, outjies, I see her [...] and I say let’s ride the swing, cherry.
at outjie, n.
[US] E. Mphahlele Down Second Avenue 78: ‘Sies!’ grandmother hissed.
at sis!, excl.
[US] E. Mphahlele Down Second Avenue 40: I had stopped worrying about being called skapie – sheep – I was told that’s the label they stuck on anybody fresh from the country.
at skaap, n.
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