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[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: Must have been as poor as ass.
at arse, n.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: I tell you, I would rather be a second-class citizen in the first world, than a first-class one in this rat’s ass place.
at rat’s ass, n.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: Batter batter, she batter batter.
at batter, n.1
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time II iii: And what happens to your mother? You goin’ to leave her wide open for the boomerang?
at boomerang, n.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: It hurts mi soul case to tell lie.
at soul-case, n.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time Ii v: One of my workmen phone her up, threaten to kill me if I don’t pay him his doggone money‘Just one doggone second, please’.
at doggone, adj.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: You mus’ just primps. Is like you turning into real high posh. Hoitytoity. All drudge shoes!
at drudge, v.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: Dem little dry-head gal will drag you down!
at dry-head, adj.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: Miss Esmerelda frowsy-tail, jiggerfoot, jeysey ears, board head gal is your friend?
at jeysey ears, adj.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: george: [...] My boy won the hundreds. len: Chip off the old block, eh?
at eh?, phr.
[UK] T. Rhone Gloss. in Old Story Time (1981) n.p.: fluxy: flawless on outside but rotten inside.
at fluxy, adj.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: With financing, ABC could be a gravy train, a money machine.
at gravy train, n.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: When Missa Lenny leave that day, it look like he had one helluva headache.
at helluva, adj.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: len: Big man, yes. pearl: In yuh pants.
at in one’s hole under hole, n.1
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: So the ol’ careless boy them lash her, is so she breed.
at lash, v.1
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: She mash up bad.
at mash up (v.) under mash, v.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: What a way she mash up!
at mash up (v.) under mash, v.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time II vi: Why am I sticking my neck out for you?
at stick one’s neck out (v.) under neck, n.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time II v: She is a distress to me, you see, Missa Mac? But I know her number.
at know someone’s number (v.) under number, n.
[UK] T. Rhone Gloss. in Old Story Time (1981) n.p.: nyam: eat.
at nyam, v.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: Me nuh know why she asking me for Mass Len. After them nuh quabs.
at quaabs, n.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: Buy penny oil, hapenny salt, an’ quattie bread for me.
at quattie, n.
[UK] T. Rhone Gloss. in Old Story Time (1981) n.p.: sheg: botch.
at sheg, v.
[UK] T. Rhone Gloss. in Old Story Time (1981) n.p.: sheg-up: uncooperative, standoffish.
at sheg-up, adj.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time 1 i: Sweet-mouth politician promise to bring down the moon.
at sweetmouth, adj.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: A tell you, give him a bottle of whites, an two twos him was slap bang in the mood.
at two twos under two, adj.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: A tell you, give him a bottle of whites, an two twos him was slap bang in the mood.
at whites, n.
[UK] T. Rhone Old Story Time I i: Back to making whoopee in seventh heaven on a choo choo train that’s going no place.
at make whoopee (v.) under whoopee, n.
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