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Adventures of Gurudeva choose

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[WI] S. Naipaul Adventures of Gurudeva 35: He wanted people to point at him and whisper, ‘See that fellow going there/ He is Gurudeva, the bad-John!’.
at bad john (n.) under bad, adj.
[WI] S. Naipaul Adventures of Gurudeva 48: I won’t dotty me stick on you.
at dot, v.
[WI] S. Naipaul Adventures of Gurudeva 41: Mind you own business [...] Don’ put goat-mouth.
at goat-mouth (n.) under goat, n.1
[WI] S. Naipaul Adventures of Gurudeva 52: You din go for t’iefing; you went for fighting. No shame in that.
at t’ief, v.
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