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Foreday Morning: selected prose 1946–1986 choose

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[UK] A. Gwynn-Browne F.S.P. 49: Eric he said this mucking bastard is saying he knows you, the mucking hell he does said Eric show me the mucking bastard muck his mucking walls.
at mucking, adj.
[WI] S. Selvon ‘Boomerang’ Foreday Morning (1989) 84: The truth is I am the brains of this two man gang, see, and unless I do the thinking, we starve.
at brain, n.1
[WI] S. Selvon ‘Finding Piccadilly Circus’ Foreday Morning (1989) 123: He only come to see [...] if he could introduce some wapee and sebby-lebby and bounce-dice to the hot boys over here.
at wapee, n.
[WI] S. Selvon ‘Calypsonian’ Foreday Morning (1989) 148: Every day he there by the tailorshop, sitting down on a soapbox and talking balls whole day.
at balls, n.
[WI] S. Selvon ‘Calypsonian’ in Bim V 17 in Selvon (1989) 146: The best way is to play brassface [...] and walk out cool. [Ibid.] 152: All you have to do is play boldface, and you could commit murder and get away free.
at play boldface (v.) under boldface, adj.
[WI] S. Selvon ‘Calypsonian’ Foreday Morning (1989) 143: It don’t take plenty to make a tief. All you have to do now is have a fellar catching his royal, and can’t get a work noway, and bam! By the time he make two rounds he bounce something somewhere.
at bounce, v.1
[WI] S. Selvon ‘Calypsonian’ in Bim V 17 in Selvon (1989) 150: Look you make me chook my hand with that blasted needle.
at juke, v.2
[WI] S. Selvon ‘Calypsonian’ Bim V 17 in Selvon (1989) 149: He laugh kiff-kiff and give Rahamut a pat on the back.
at kif, adj.
[WI] S. Selvon ‘Calypsonian’ Foreday Morning (1989) 143: It don’t take plenty to make a tief. All you have to do now is have a fellar catching his royal, and can’t get a work noway, and bam! By the time he make two rounds he bounce something somewhere.
at catch one’s royal (v.) under royal, n.1
[WI] S. Selvon ‘Calypsonian’ in Bim V 17 in Selvon (1989) 151: If you tiefing, you might as well tief big.
at t’ief, v.
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