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Outside Life’ s Feast choose

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[SA] S. Roberts ‘The Boss’ Outside Life’s Feast 81: Time for beddy-byes!
at beddy-bye, n.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘And Never Come Back Again’ Outside Life’s Feast 19: We never even got a bladdy cup of tea.
at bladdy, adj.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘Cleft Stick’ Outside Life’s Feast 85: There was a bliksemse lawaai coming from the bathroom [...] they were struggling with a razor and the woman’s wrists were bleeding but she was fighting like a blarry mad thing.
at blerry, adj.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘Cleft Stick’ Outside Life’s Feast 85: There was a bliksemse lawaai coming from the bathroom [...] they were struggling with a razor and the woman’s wrists were bleeding but she was fighting like a blarry mad thing.
at bliksem, n.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘For No Reason’ Outside Life’s Feast 58: I said listen here you blikskottel if you do this again you’re out .
at blikskottel, n.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘Cleft Stick’ Outside Life’s Feast 85: The pay is little you start about hunnert ran a month wha’s that hey boggerrol.
at boggeral, n.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘A Small Change’ Outside Life’s Feast 66: Good old Doug. He’s a bok for anything.
at bok, n.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘Cleft Stick’ Outside Life’s Feast 90: She stood so soft. A bokkie. Afraid.
at bokkie, n.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘Cleft Stick’ Outside Life’s Feast 85: When I was with the vice-squad we had lekker time some nights you catch these young ous with their cherries in the back seats and you frighten the hell out of them.
at cherry, n.1
[SA] S. Roberts ‘And Never Come Back Again’ Outside Life’s Feast 13: Coolies were very low too. Dad said that a coolie was no use whatever to a country. They sent all their money back to India.
at coolie, n.1
[SA] S. Roberts ‘A Small Change’ Outside Life’s Feast 66: Glad I sold those safari suits to the coon boy.
at coon, adj.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘The Boss’ Outside Life’s Feast 74: ‘What did you say the name of that Coloured girl was?’ [...] ‘Don’t tell me you’re getting an itch for dark meat.’.
at dark meat, n.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘All That Jazz’ Outside Life’s Feast 42: We had this wiry little black guy with us, and his dolly.
at dolly, n.1
[SA] S. Roberts ‘And Never Come Back Again’ Outside Life’s Feast 10: Their father is a dronklap who makes the A.C.F. outjies laugh by carrying a brandy cork around in his pocket and taking it for sniffs.
at dronklap, n.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘And Never Come Back Again’ Outside Life’s Feast 13: Eyeties were almost as bad as kaffirs.
at Eyetie, n.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘The Boss’ Outside Life’s Feast 71: So ... Mauritius. That’s fab!
at fab, adj.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘All That Jazz’ Outside Life’s Feast 50: We passed another car [...] full of white guys! And Frankie stuck his head out of the window and yelled white man, you wantafuggakaffa!
at fug, v.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘All That Jazz’ Outside Life’s Feast 48: He’d been tippling from a half-jack he had in his pocket.
at half-jack, n.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘And Never Come Back Again’ Outside Life’s Feast 7: You could go a jolly long way in Johburg for a shilling.
at Joburg, n.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘For No Reason’ Outside Life’s Feast 58: I’m sure that kitchen kaffir is mental.
at mental, adj.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘For No Reason’ Outside Life’s Feast 60: Man it’s too much city life that turns them into moffies and queers.
at moffie, n.
[SA] S. Roberts Outside Life’s Feast 7: Nigger-balls are the best sweets [...] When the black is sucked off you get pink and blue and blue-green, but you can’t bite them until you’ve sucked them small or you’ll chip your teeth [DSAE].
at nigger ball (n.) under nigger, n.1
[SA] S. Roberts ‘And Never Come Back Again’ Outside Life’s Feast 7: Nigger-balls are the best sweets. You get four for a penny.
at nigger, adj.
[SA] S. Roberts Outside Life’s Feast 27: His chest hangs like soft tits in his vest. He is pap.
at pap, adj.
[SA] S. Roberts Outside Life’s Feast 26: I hear him say in a slow begging voice Anna get me a regmaker. No Bill man it will start you off again. Have some more black coffee. But I am sick. Well regmakers won’t make you better.
at regmaker, n.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘For No Reason’ Outside Life’s Feast 55: Jesus, how snoep can you get!
at snoep, adj.
[SA] S. Roberts Outside Life’s Feast 27: The stink of stale brandy and piss and old stompies will not let me breathe.
at stompie, n.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘For No Reason’ Outside Life’s Feast 61: Ag Tannie, don’t cry.
at tannie, n.
[SA] S. Roberts Outside Life’s Feast 88: ‘Bladdy vark!’ she said bitterly. ‘Rubbish, that’s what you are.’.
at vark, n.
[SA] S. Roberts ‘Cleft Stick’ Outside Life’s Feast 89: It’s lekker to live a bit; to have a few drinks and a little vrytijie. [...] Ag, I like a cherrie with a soft oily kind of skin.
at vrytijie (n.) under vry, v.
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