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The Lonely Londoners choose

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[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 32: I new in this country and I don’t want to start antsing on the State unless I have to.
at ants, v.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 26: And also you have to look for work. I not saying you is a ants, but it have enough ants already in London.
at ants, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 98: He go into the gardens, and begin to walk down to the Arch.
at Arch, the, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 142: Why the arse London Transport can’t run bus and tube all night.
at what the arse...? under arse, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 8: They coming to me as if I is some liaison officer, and I catching my arse as it is, how I could help them out?
at catch one’s arse under arse, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 31: When you go in the hotel or the restaurant they will politely tell you to haul. [Ibid.] 105: By the time Monday morning come around he revert to ‘haul your arse’ and ‘stop —ing me up’ when anybody talk to him.
at haul ass, v.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 116: To talk of all the episodes Moses had with women in London would take bags of ballad.
at ballad, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 53: One day bam! something happen to throw everything out of gear.
at bam!, excl.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 127: I really bawling. Lend me two and six.
at bawl, v.1
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 99: Evening people in the tube station must be bawl to black man so familiar with white girl.
at bawl, v.1
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 20: Moses sure is some test who living in London a long, long time and accustom to the beast winter.
at beast, adj.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 9: Jackson is a bitch [...] he know that I seeing hell myself.
at bitch, n.1
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 95: Not giving a blast if they answer or not.
at blast, n.2
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 74: The whole blasted family come to give me grey hair before my time.
at blasted, adj.1
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 122: Blondie shake her head then he take Moses to another one who was sitting on a bench.
at blondie, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 29: It all well and good to play boldface in a small place like Trinidad, but when he landin London it would be different.
at play boldface (v.) under boldface, adj.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 8: This was a time, when any corner you turn, is ten to one you bound to bounce up a spade. In fact, the boys all over London.
at boys, the, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 61: When he see you right away he would start to get on cagey, on the lookout.
at cagey, adj.1
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 124: Moses ask a cat one night and she tell him how the black boys so nice.
at cat, n.1
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 164: Although by and large, in truth and in fact, they catching their royal to make a living.
at catch nennen (v.) under catch, v.1
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 40: Don’t go about the place making grandcharge when you ain’t have work.
at grand charge, v.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 117: Moses [...] frighten like hell that the woman might conk off on his hands.
at conk off (v.) under conk, v.2
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 71: He thought she gone by tanty house for the usual cool-off.
at cool-off, n.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 92: Lord, that is the life for you that is. To meet a craft there, and take she out some place.
at craft, n.1
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 124: The cruder you are the more the gielas like you you can’t put on any English accent for them or play ladeda or tell them studying medcine in Oxford.
at la-di-da(h), adj.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 91: The time when he had a date with Daisy he tell her to meet him there.
at date, n.1
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 23: London will do for you before long.
at do for, v.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 111: I will tell him that you can give the people the real dope on the [colour] question.
at dope, n.3
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 119: If you linger she tell you to double — off.
at double, adv.
[WI] S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 23: Ease me up with the questions old man.
at ease up, v.
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