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[US] G. Gray in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 237: Oh the old dirty dozen, / The old dirty dozen.
at dozens, n.
[US] Chris Smith ‘Don’t Slip Me the Dozen’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 237: Jones slipped Brownie in the dozen last night, / And Brownie didn’t think that was exactly right.
at play the dozen(s) (v.) under dozens, n.
[US] R. Perryman ‘The Dirty Dozen’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 240: Now I had your mammy, she wouldn’t turn no tricks, / Hit her right ’cross the head with a big hickory stick.
at turn a trick, v.2
[US] R. Perryman in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 240: Your pa wants a wash, your mother turns tricks.
at turn a trick, v.2
[US] R. Perryman ‘The Dirty Dozen’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 240: Now your mammy got the blue-ball, your sister got the pox.
at blue balls (n.) under balls, n.
[US] Rufus Perryman ‘The Dirty Dozen’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 240: Your sister loves to fuck and your brother sucks dick, / He’s a suckin’ motherfucker, cocksucker.
at suck dick (v.) under dick, n.1
[US] Willy Baker ‘Sweet Patunia Blues’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 221: I got a gal she’s got a Rolls-Royce, / She didn’t get off by usin’ her voice.
at get off, v.2
[US] M. Dixon ‘All Around Mama’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 206: Had a man, good old sweetback, said that I should know, / Said he didn’t do no loving ’lest he had some dough.
at sweetback (man), n.
[US] Rufus Perryman ‘The Dirty Dozen’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 240: Now you’s a jumpin’ motherfucker, cheap cocksucker, / Goin’ out in the alley doin’ this, that an’ the other.
at motherfucker, n.
[US] R. Perryman ‘The Dirty Dozen’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 240: Your sister loves to fuck and your brother sucks dick, / He’s a suckin’ motherfucker, cocksucker etc.
at sucking, n.
[US] L. Bogan ‘Shave ’Em Dry’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 231: I got somethin’ ’tween my legs’ll make a dead man come.
at come, v.1
[US] L. Bogan ‘Shave ’Em Dry’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 231: Great God I got fat from fuckin’, / Whee . . . tell ’em about me! Fuck it!
at fuck it!, excl.
[US] Memphis Minnie McCoy in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 232: [song title] ‘Dirty Mother For You’.
at motherfucker, n.
[US] L. Bogan ‘Shave ’Em Dry’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 231: Now your nuts hang down like a damn bell-clapper, / And your stick stands up like a steeple.
at nuts, n.2
[US] L. Bogan ‘Shave ’Em Dry’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 230: I’m just a stomp-down roller and I like to strut my stuff.
at roller, n.
[US] Lucille Brogan ‘Shave ’Em Dry’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 231: Now your nuts hang down like a damn bell-clapper, / And your stick stands up like a steeple.
at stick, n.
[US] Robert Johnson ‘Terraplane Blues’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 189: Your little generator won’t get the spark, / All in bad condition, you gotta have these batteries charged.
at get one’s batteries charged (v.) under batteries, n.
[US] S.P. Spivey in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 246: Oh you dirty no-gooder, you don’t mean me no good.
at no-gooder, n.
[US] J. James ‘Sweet Patuni’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 224: Nut-house is for crazy folks, folks got sense don’t go there.
at nut house, n.
[US] J. James ‘Sweet Patuni’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 224: Now I got a job, was paid to learn how to truck, / The boss tol’ me this mornin’ I like to busted one of my – / Nut-house is for crazy folks.
at bust a nut (v.) under nut, n.3
[US] R. Sykes ‘Dirty Mother For You’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 234: Mama, I got a hot dog and it ain’t cold, / It’s just right for to fit your roll.
at roll, n.
[US] ‘Big Bill’ Broonzy ‘Dirty Mother For You’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 61: I ain’t no washfoot Baptist, and I can’t do the Holy Roll.
at holy-rolling, n.
[US] E. Jones ‘Dirty Dozens’ in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 242: Made him an ass, that ass made him sick, / Wasn’t satisfied till he made him an nine-inch stick.
at nine-inch knocker (n.) under nine, adj.
[US] A. Green in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 174: I’m not the plumber [...] But I’ll plug your hole, / Till the plumber comes.
at hole, n.1
[US] A. Green in Oliver Screening the Blues (1968) 174: I’m not the plumber [...] But I’ll plug your hole, / Till the plumber comes.
at plug, v.1
[US] P. Oliver Screening the Blues 214: ‘Easy rider’ for either a male or female lover has been in common use for as long a period and gained wider recognition when W.C. Handy’s Yellow Dog Blues, with the line ‘Dear Sue, your easy rider struck this burg today,’ was published in 1914.
at easy rider, n.1
[US] P. Oliver Screening the Blues 23: Blues about liquor and the ‘whisky-head man’ [...] figure in the work of singers of all generations.
at whiskyhead (n.) under whisky, n.
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