1988 S. Selvon Eldorado West One 18: Damn reprobates and scoundrels, the lot of them, always antsing on a man.at ants, v.
1988 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.
1988 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.
1988 S. Selvon Eldorado West One 72: Don’t be so avaricious old bean.at old bean (n.) under bean, n.2
1988 S. Selvon Eldorado West One 53: You! Shy! A bold brass-face reprobate like you shy?at brass-face (n.) under brass, adj.1
1988 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.
1988 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
1988 S. Selvon Eldorado West One 107: Your new digs! What a change from that dingy basement room, eh!at digs, n.1
1988 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.
1988 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
1988 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.
1988 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.
1988 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.
1988 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
1988 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.
1988 S. Selvon Eldorado West One 40: You would dead in the heat wearing woollies and overcoat in Trinidad.at woolies, n.
1988 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