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[US] H. Roth From Bondage 341: I’m gittin’ some coffee-an’, right away.
at coffee-and, n.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 133: You don’t mean to tell me one o’ those fat I-talian ladies [...] is goin’ to step back heah and put the ahm on us.
at put the arm on (v.) under arm, n.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 256: He could – in imagination – ask Larry the filthiest questions: Hey, Larry, did you ever try back-scuttling Edith? I have to back-scuttle my kid cousin Stella most of the time.
at backscuttle, v.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 100: He could give Stella, who was there with the rest, a real backscuttle, just what he needed.
at backscuttle, n.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 340: I can walk into a beanery with a nickel. Some of ’em’ll give you som’n stale with a cuppa java.
at beanery, n.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 340: Jesus, yer a prince! A whole two bits! God bless ye!
at two bits, n.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 273: What did the Irish nationalists do about Yeats and about Synge’s plays? They excoriated them, they blistered them. Please!
at blister, v.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 386: You had been self-supporting for I don’t know how many years. Whereas I – Christ, what a blob!
at blob, n.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 174: ‘When all of a sudden I went blotto,’ said Larry. The spell of unconsciousness must have lasted only a few seconds.
at blotto, adj.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 382: I haven’t got your blue-nosed Pilgrim ancestry.
at blue-nosed, adj.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 183: Boy, that was a boner.
at boner, n.3
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 280: Ira took notice of Dalton [...] who was drinking a glass of bootleg gin.
at bootleg, adj.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 339: Listen, bud, I’m flat broke.
at bud, n.1
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 279: He had gotten his lumps in the shop, lumps on the coconut.
at coconut, n.1
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 281: The newspapers were just as full today as they were when he was conked on the bean with newspaper bludgeons.
at conk, v.2
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 384: ‘Just before we left El Paso. I bought three packages.’ ‘Creeps’ sake. Ever providential.’ He sighed admiringly.
at for cripes’ sake!, excl.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 103: Ira had to admire the kid’s crust, speaking in such tones to Ida.
at crust, n.2
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 380: He didn’t expect me to hold up under a third degree. You know, that’s when the cops grill you, beat the hell out of you to make you confess.
at third degree, n.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 77: Sporting a Bull Durham sack on his dink, because, said Weasel reverently, Yonnie had a dose of clap.
at dink, n.2
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 45: Get a dose maybe.
at dose, n.1
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 317: She doesn’t like walking on the roads there in the mountains, with cow dreck to step in.
at dreck, n.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 234: Leo was the worst dub at plane geometry Ira had ever known.
at dub, n.5
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 215: There, in fair weather, freshmen and sophomores, ‘frosh’ and ‘sophs,’ attired in their World War uniforms, marched and countermarched.
at frosh, n.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 246: What the hell is a white man doin’ on a ginzo job like that? [Ibid.] 277: You ginzos are always talkin’ to yourselves.
at ginzo, n.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 47: I could never marry him, he’s a goy. [Ibid.] 315: ‘Oh, such goyim as they are,’ Hannah disparaged.
at goy, n.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 315: I don’t care if it’s a white dress or a pink dress. It’s a goyish wedding.
at goy, adj.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 268: Grease monkey working over a pit under a subway train.
at grease monkey (n.) under grease, n.1
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 77: The sewer cleaner handed his helper the tin beer bucket. ‘Will yez rush the growler, me b’y.’.
at rush the growler (v.) under growler, n.3
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 261: The Jewish hackie recognized the great seeress.
at hackie, n.
[US] H. Roth From Bondage 379: After his wife gave him the heave-ho.
at heave-ho, n.
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