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A Quality of Violence choose

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[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 135: You is a blasted, dead ass liar!
at dead-ass, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 193: You trying out backra-Englishman tricks on we.
at backra, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 93: You can stay and beat up you’ gum, if you want. I not listening no more.
at beat one’s gums, v.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 28: All you get is a dirty glass of belly-wash lemonade mix up with coolie-foot sugar.
at belly wash, n.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 15: What’s going on in there! When since good night prayers include belly laugh and sweet joke?
at belly laugh (n.) under belly, n.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 93: You not going anywhere [...] till I get me satisfaction back on what you’ little bitching daughter say to me pickney, Doris.
at bitching, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 23: I saw certain things that would cause your black-pepper hair to curl even tighter.
at black-pepper brain (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 27: You must want to block me up. That white rum is a bad thing, you know!
at blocked, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 14: Why you cause me worry-head and all the botheration?
at botheration, n.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 123: The women around her heaped themselves closer to her chunky, blowzy body.
at chunky, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 23: Biddy! I know what you’re cooking up. It’s a pack of lies. It’s a heap of silly dreams.
at cook up, v.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 19: That is your Mr Shooksingh [...] Real coolie stunt he trying to pull on you. All coolie people behave like that.
at coolie, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 160: She knew nothing about [...] the business transactions between himself and the ganja dealers.
at dealer, n.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 72: And you too fool-fool.
at foo-foo, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 111: If you want to smoke the ganja, at least you could offer me some, too.
at ganja, n.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 9: Why, now that we have a big decision to make, you must think that I of all people going to put a goat mouth on it? Eh? Tell me that!
at goat-mouth (n.) under goat, n.1
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 183: You can’t tell what might happen, what with St Thomas in this mad-up state and hell poppin’ loose all ’bout the place.
at hell’s a popping under hell, n.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 154: Yet Marshall isn’t that sort of man. It’s true he’s slow and easy and a little ‘stick-in-the-muddish’.
at stick-in-the-mud, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 18: He struck a match, cupped the bowl of his pipe and sucked greedily until the ‘jackass rope’ burst into flames.
at jackass rope, n.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 81: So, you really believe that idle labrish, eh?
at labrish, n.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 19: All he’s doing is trying to live on your eye-top. Just that! He believe that we must support him.
at live on someone’s eye-top (v.) under live, v.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 148: If you form fool, a whole heap-a-curse going fall down on you’ head and you’ pickney head, and on you’ pickney-pickney head.
at pickney, n.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 146: Brother Parkin ping-ponged his observation of the two in their battle of eyes and wondered who would give in first.
at ping-pong, v.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 54: That young boy you have here as you’ deputy is a saucy rass, you did know?
at raas, n.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 111: One shouted: ‘I ready to go for them! Just say the word, Mother! Just say the word!’ The other two shouted: ‘Ready to rass! Ready to rass!’.
at raas, v.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 93: You rass clothes going rip off before I ever let you go. [Ibid.] 152: Trying to get into another class. Stupid rass! There’s only one rass class, only one . [Ibid.] 203: You couldn’t mash your tea bread, right now, and what is more, you rass know it, Mother Johnson!
at raas, adj.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 93: You, class-war rass hole, you! [Ibid.] 125: Get up, you big rass hole, you!
at raashole, n.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 75: Rawtid! It have a Jesus Christ on the Cross.
at raatid!, excl.
[UK] A. Salkey Quality of Violence (1978) 147: There’s no use your trying to put ‘sweet mouth’ on any of us.
at sweetmouth, n.
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