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[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: De way he’s acting up can’t go on.
at act up, v.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Driving off in the middle of the day, after I’ve told him to bend his back in that cotton.
at bend one’s back (v.) under bend, v.1
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Everything turns on niggers, niggers, niggers! No wonder Yankees call this the Black Belt!
at black belt (n.) under black, adj.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: He’s acting like a fool – just like he was boss man round here.
at boss man (n.) under boss, n.2
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: He was mighty broke up when you said last week that he couldn’t go back to campus.
at broke up, adj.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: He’s no more than any other black buck on this plantation – due to work like the rest of ’em.
at buck, n.1
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) II ii: Norwood didn’t have a gang o’ yellow girls, though, like Higgins and some o’ these other big bugs.
at big bug (n.) under bug, n.1
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) II i: They’re not going to string me up to some roadside tree for the crackers to laugh at.
at cracker, n.3
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: A darkie’s got to keep in his place down here.
at darkie, n.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Taste better’n this old mountain juice we get around here.
at mountain dew, n.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: This here sewin’s really fine.
at fine, adj.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Can I fix you a cool drink, Colonel Tom?
at fix, v.1
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Don’t ever show black folks they got you going, though.
at get going, v.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) II ii: Then I cried and cried and told ma mother about it, but she didn’t take it hard like I thought she’d take it.
at take it hard (v.) under hard, adv.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Is that damn Frigidaire working right? Or is Livonia still too thick-headed to know how to run it?
at thick-headed, adj.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Boy, I’m gonna fan your hide if you don’t hush!
at hide, n.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: ’Bout a dozen coloured guys standing around, too, and not one of ’em would help me – the dumb jiggaboos!
at jigaboo, n.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Look at me. I’m a ’fay boy. See these grey eyes?
at ofay, adj.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: He sassed out Miss Gray in the post office over a box of radio tubes that come by mail.
at sass (out), v.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Cotton teaches these pickaninnies enough round here. Some of ’em’s too smart as it is.
at piccaninny, n.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) II ii: Thirty years ago, you put your hands on me to feel my breasts, and you say, ‘You a pretty little piece of flesh, ain’t you?’.
at piece of flesh (n.) under piece, n.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: How’s the rheumatiz today?
at rheumatiz, n.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: That’s de Colonel’s favourite chair. If he knows any little darkie’s been jumpin’ on it, he raise sand.
at raise sand (v.) under sand, n.1
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: You comes home wid yo’ head full o’ stubborness and yo’ mouth full o’ sass for me an’ de white folks an’ everybody.
at sass, n.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Says he’s mo’ sassy and impudent now than any nigger he ever seed.
at sassy, adj.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) II ii: Every white man that’s able to walk’s out with the posse. They’ll have that young nigger swingin’ before ten.
at swing, v.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Don’t talk to me, old slavery-time Uncle Tom.
at Uncle Tom, n.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Cora say for me to ask you is it all right to bring that big old trunk [...] down by de front steps. We ain’t been able to tote it down them narrer little back steps, sah.
at tote, v.1
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) II i: And he’s runnin’ – runnin’ from po’ white trash which ain’t worth de little finger o’ nobody what’s got your blood in ’em, Tom.
at white trash, n.
[US] L. Hughes Mulatto in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Said his name was Norwood – not Lewis, like the rest of his family [...] and all that kind of stuff, boasting to the wall-eyed coons listening to him.
at wall-eyed (adj.) under wall, n.
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