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[WI] Wodehouse Summer Lightning 265: ‘Come along, Carmody. Din-dins.’ Hugo had sunk into a chair. ‘I don’t want any dinner,’ he said, dully.
at din-din, n.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Country of the One Eye God’ Summer Lightning 24: Him no business with rag tag and bobtail like unno.
at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 102: Yu can gwan yu is yu father pickney and he will have to deal with yu I not going worry myself no more. [...] I call her Me Ma though she really not my mother at all. She is the mother of Elsie and George [...] and Petey and Dulcie and Gabriel but their pa Mass George is my Pa too only he did have me with a lady friend he was keeping one time over at Morningside. But she did have other children from before I born and Me Ma did take me from I small and raise me up in her house.
at baby-father (n.) under baby, n.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 112: Next thing I know you go to try out what you learn and braps we have another bastard in the house.
at bradarax!, excl.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 124: She say that he wasnt no hothead little fly-be-night bwoy, he was an establish man.
at fly-by-night, adj.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 115: Cho! Miss Rilla have better things to do with her time in heaven.
at cha!, excl.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 109: They come out with good colour and straight hair better than Chiney hair.
at Chinee, adj.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Real Old Time T’ing’ Summer Lightning 62: You no mus want get rid of some of this junk. They make the place so chuck-up there is hardly anywhere to walk.
at chuck-up, adj.
[WI] O. Senior ‘The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream’ Summer Lightning 85: Stan still yu jumbo-head bwoy or a konk yu till yu fenny.
at conk, v.2
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 132: Every day Jiveman would pass word for Bigger and every day Bigger would just cut him eye and say nothing.
at cut eye, v.1
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 101: Yu no see how the lot of them redibo and have puss eye?
at puss-eye, n.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Do Angels Wear Brassieres?’ Summer Lightning 70: No pickney suppose to come facety and force-ripe so.
at facety, adj.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 112: Is force-ripe woman this? What you want to fass in big people business for?
at fas’, v.
[WI] O. Senior ‘The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream’ Summer Lightning 85: Stan still yu jumbo-head bwoy or a konk yu till yu fenny.
at fenneh, v.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 112: Is force-ripe woman this? What you want to fass in big people business for?
at force-ripe, adj.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Real Old Time T’ing’ Summer Lightning 57: Miss Myrtella is a hard-back woman by now.
at hard-back (adj.) under hard, adj.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 102: I just sit quiet till she forget what she talking bout because if I make any sound she quick to fire me a box hot-hot.
at hot, adv.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 112: Well Jehosiphat! I never see or hear such a thing.
at jehoshaphat!, excl.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 130: He down Mass Curly shop playing domino and dancing and giving out him jive talk.
at jive talk, n.
[WI] O. Senior ‘The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream’ Summer Lightning 85: Stan still yu jumbo-head bwoy or a konk yu till yu fenny.
at jumbo, adj.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 132: Jiveman cursing her all kind of name and big kas-kas going on between them.
at kass kass, n.
[WI] O. Senior ‘The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream’ Summer Lightning 90: What yu all doing back there a lagga lagga so? Jus’ hurry up ya pickney.
at lagga lagga, adj.
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 110: Everybody know that them big office and store in Kingston dont want no natty head pickney work with them.
at natty, n.2
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 103: Ai Dulci, Estrella, come look at this pappyshow no mi chile.
at poppy-show, n.2
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ascot’ Summer Lightning 29: He wearing the biggest pair of puss boot that ever make.
at puss-boots (n.) under puss, n.1
[WI] O. Senior ‘Ballad’ Summer Lightning 130: Jiveman was a real sweetman because he didnt work and all the time he down Mass Curly shop playing domino and dancing and giving jive talk. [...] This Jiveman live with Miss Rilla for about two year and Miss Rilla is the one who have to sell coffee and chocolate to make money to buy things for them.
at sweetman, n.
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