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[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 118: Ain’t goin’ round lickin’ no white ass if I kin ever kick it.
at arse-lick, v.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 100: Who do you think you are, the Queen a Sheba? Jus’ cause you can sing you want everybody to kiss your ass.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 117: Oh, Bonnie, you don’t know your ass from your elbow.
at not know one’s arse/ass from one’s elbow (v.) under arse, n.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 26: None a your beeswax.
at beeswax, n.2
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 24: We just bum a ride to the city before the alarm gets out.
at bum a ride (v.) under bum, v.3
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 94: Most every night they would wake us up doin’ their business. I could hear them roll over; the springs would squeak.
at do the business (v.) under business, n.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 20: Bluebell’s hair glowed like ebony; it was straight and soft, the envy of all the girls, for she never had to grease or ‘bust’ it.
at bust, v.1
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 46: I wasn’t cut out to be no sud-buster.
at sud-buster, n.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 62: As they passed a dog began to howl. ‘Cheese it!’.
at cheese it!, excl.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 84: They all knew the rules were old chestnuts, dusted off every time a girl ran away.
at chestnut, n.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 115: Any time someone gets fresh you try to make a chib fight out of it.
at chiv, n.1
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 46: I want to have some fun before I get old, do some rugcuttin’ an’ go out with the boys.
at rug cut, v.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 137: You think they give ’em the third degree? ... Maybe they hit ’em with a rubber hose.
at third degree, n.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 117: As soon as somebody gets funny you got to smack ’em down.
at funny, adj.2
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 113: If anyone gets it in the neck it’ll be Mis’ Dulcy, not us.
at get it in the neck, v.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 83: Hope they ketch ’em, give it to ’em good; them niggers is too wild.
at give it to, v.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 118: Owned one of them grease parlors, had two or three girls workin’ there off an’ on, manicurin’, cuttin’ hair, bustin’ naps.
at grease parlor (n.) under grease, n.1
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 125: Jeez, I coudn’t jump over no horse.
at jeez!, excl.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 73: They always wanted to knock a trot. They musta sneaked out durin’ the dancin’.
at knock a trot (v.) under knock, v.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 74: ‘Lordy,’ said Mary Lee.
at lawdy!, excl.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 116: ‘She runa round with them ofays?’ ‘Don’t ask me. I don’t have nothin’ to do with the white girls.’ [...] ‘I thought maybe she had a taste for white meat too.’.
at white meat, n.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 117: If you live on the hill and got straight hair so you don’t have to get your naps busted and kin marry a yella fella and git your pitcher in the paper, sassiety, then you can chew the fat all day long.
at naps, n.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 114: ‘Go on, Bonnie!’ the girls cried [...] ‘Sap ’er up, oil ’er up!’.
at oil, v.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 51: ‘You’re a percy,’ Tony went on, hoarse with fury.
at percy, n.1
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 114: ‘Go on, Bonnie!’ the girls cried [...] ‘Sap ’er up, oil ’er up!’.
at sap, v.2
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 170: Men’s voices, deep and harsh: ‘Get along there, none a your sass’.
at sass, n.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 83: Now they’re gonna put the screws on us, clamp down, all on account a them niggers.
at put the screw(s) on (v.) under screw, n.1
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 117: She was workin’ as a sud-buster an’ give him ten dollars toward one a them sharp green suits with broad pointy shoulders an’ a narrow waist.
at sharp, adj.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 85: Hurry up, slowpoke.
at slowpoke (n.) under slow, adj.
[US] F. Swados House of Fury (1959) 25: She ran down the stairs. ‘Ain’t got nothin’ on me.’.
at have something on someone (v.) under something, n.
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