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These My People choose

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[WI] C. Thompson These My People 31: The music has changed from the jazz songs of America to the ‘brukkins’ of Jamaica.
at breaking, n.3
[WI] C. Thompson These My People 21: Cho! who dah worry ’bout Amos?
at cha!, excl.
[WI] C. Thompson These My People 26: I can beat ten of dese old time prayin’ cock-knockers.
at cock-knocker (n.) under cock, n.3
[WI] C. Thompson These My People 24: Murdered on a Monday mawning! Suppose it was a ganja man?
at ganja, n.
[WI] C. Thompson These My People 19: You can’t care woman, yuh is a good-fi-nothin’ mampala man.
at mampala, n.
[WI] C. Thompson These My People 57: The front room was occupied with a sambo girl who ‘played’ with a Chinaman.
at sambo, n.1
[WI] C. Thompson These My People 20: Someone ‘scuffled’ a discarded cigarette butt from the dry gutter.
at scuffle, v.
[WI] C. Thompson These My People 32: The ‘spree bwoys’ at their eternal gambling.
at spree-boy (n.) under spree, n.
[WI] C. Thompson These My People 44: These ‘upper-ten’ people who were so desperately trying to be gentle folk; who looked like well bred people but were not.
at upper ten, adj.
[WI] C. Thompson These My People 21: He had [...] never heard of Liza Ann being a two-timer.
at two-timer, n.
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