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[UK] J. Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea 9: They hated us. They called us white cockroaches [...] One day a little girl followed me singing, ‘Go away white cockroach, go away, go away.’.
at whitey cockroach, n.
[UK] J. Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea 23: He’d throw her on the fire, he said, if she put bad luck on him. Old white jumby, he called her.
at jumbie, n.
[UK] J. Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea 73: Look, Jo-Jo coming, he talk to everybody about what he hear. Nothing but leaky calabash that boy.
at leaky, adj.
[UK] J. Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea 71: So you believe in that tim-tim story about obeah, you hear when you so high?
at tim-tim, n.
[UK] J. Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea 91: If you love them they treat you bad; if you don’t love them they after you night and day bothering your soul-case out.
at burst one’s soul-case (v.) under soul-case, n.
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