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[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 18: Damn reprobates and scoundrels, the lot of them, always antsing on a man.
at ants, v.
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 108: Delighted to be of assist, old chap.
at assist, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 21: You know how old your Tanty getting. Is a shame to leave she alone to dead in Kingston.
at aunt, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 18: The drivers only have to see a spade crossing the road and all they have to do is step on the X and bam!
at bam!, excl.
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 72: Don’t be so avaricious old bean.
at old bean (n.) under bean, n.2
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 58: Thanks, bo...
at bo, n.1
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 53: You! Shy! A bold brass-face reprobate like you shy?
at brass-face (n.) under brass, adj.1
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 69: You shock me Moses! What I have in mind is no fly-by-night affair.
at fly-by-night, adj.
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 80: He has been charging up on some reefers.
at charge, v.2
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 81: Big City and Bart been smoking chargers and both of them in a evil mood.
at charge, n.2
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 107: Your new digs! What a change from that dingy basement room, eh!
at digs, n.1
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 27: You will get all the gen at the exchange.
at gen, n.2
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 88: You can’t leave me sitting like a poor-me-one in this corner!
at poor-me-one, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 76: I ain’t standing up here like a mook, man. I going circulate and meet the boys.
at mook, n.1
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 137: Forget that speech rarse.
at raas, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 137: You must be mad! You think I would go up there and risk some executive from London Transport seeing me raising rarse in Trafalgar Square?
at raas, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 20: Oh rarse! That look like my mother!
at raas!, excl.
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 16: I never seen that raas-Jamaica yet. [Ibid.] 23: It is only in this country I get to meet Barbadians, and Grenadians, and rarse-Jamaicans.
at raas, adj.
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 42: This raas-claat woman rarsing up a time. . . [...] This woman, man! Tanty! She gone and open up an account with the shop [...] I tired of telling her she can’t live in Brit’n like she live in Jamaica.
at raasclat, adj.
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 53: I have been giving her a little sweet-eye now and then.
at sweet-eye (n.) under sweet, adj.1
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 29: moses: Anywhere from the Water is far for me. galahad: You mean Bayswater, where we is now? moses: The Water. You will learn. The Arch is Marble Arch, the Grove is Ladbroke Grove.
at water, the, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 40: You would dead in the heat wearing woollies and overcoat in Trinidad.
at woolies, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Eldorado West One 18: The drivers only have to see a spade crossing the road and all they have to do is step on the X and bam!
at x, n.2
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