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Tropic Death (1972) 136: ‘A grave? Mercy! For whom?’ [...] ‘Fo’ de baboo wha’ chop arf ’im wife head, mum.’ [Ibid.] 142: The baboos, behind pots of rotie and callaloo.at babu, n.
Tropic Death (1972) 136: ‘A grave? Mercy! For whom?’ [...] ‘Fo’ de baboo wha’ chop arf ’im wife head, mum.’ [Ibid.] 142: The baboos, behind pots of rotie and callaloo. Tropic Death (1972) 20: The driver, a buckra johnny – English white – sat on the waste box.at backra johnny (n.) under backra, adj.
Tropic Death (1972) 120: ‘Yo nasty t’ing yo’!’ ‘Yo’ murrah!’ ‘Bad-minded wretch!’.at bad-mind, adj.
Tropic Death (1972) 42: I let dem understand quick enough dat I wuz a Englishman and not a bleddy American nigger!at bladdy, adj.
Tropic Death (1972) 143: Pity it was so blamed dark!at blame, adv.
Tropic Death (1972) 42: Five hundred pounds! Ev’y blind cent!at blind, adj.2
Tropic Death (1972) 106: Dat’ dyam John Chinaman ’im not gwine giv’ me any-t’ing.at John Chinaman, n.
Tropic Death (1972) 26: Go under de bed an’ lay down befo’ I crack yo’ cocoanut.at coconut, n.1
Tropic Death (1972) 128: Chinks pauperized in the Georgetown fire of ’05 and Calcutta coolies mixing rotie at dusk.at coolie, n.1
Tropic Death (1972) 55: New Orleans ‘crackers’ swearingly cursed the leisurely lack of native labor.at cracker, n.3
Tropic Death (1972) 26: Rufus – a sulky, cry-cry, suck-finger boy nearing twenty – Big Head Rufus.at cry-cry, adj.
Tropic Death (1972) 61: All this edgy, snappy, darky talk.at darkie, adj.
Tropic Death (1972) 100: The men sung [...] ‘Diamond gal cook fowl botty giv’ de man’.at diamond, adj.
Tropic Death (1972) 25: You’re too hard ears.at hard-ears, adj.
Tropic Death (1972) 60: An’ me standin’ right by him, doin’ a fadeaway.at fadeaway, n.
Tropic Death (1972) 122: Yo’ ent gwine get dis goat back to-night till yo’ fork up dat shillin’.at fork out, v.
Tropic Death (1972) 109: He say yo’ had no business to jook yo’ mout’ in de ruction yestiddy. Dat yo’ too gypsy.at gypsy, adj.
Tropic Death (1972) 34: De Bajan man him say [...] plantain an’ salt fish don’t want ’um, an’ de Mud-head man him say, me wish me had ’un. [Ibid.] 172: Oi tell yuh ’bout dese fancy mud-head men! Ent a blind one o’ dem any blasted good!at mud-head, n.
Tropic Death (1972) 99: ‘Look at he,’ he said, ‘takin’ exvantage o’ de po’ lil’ boy. A big able hog like dat.’.at hog, n.
Tropic Death (1972) 34: One o’ dem would knock a man in a cock hat.at knock into a cocked hat (v.) under knock into, v.
Tropic Death (1972) 20: On the way down he had stopped for a tot – zigaboo word for a tin cup – of water.at jigaboo, n.
Tropic Death (1972) 94: Put that goddam lime juicer to bed, somebody, will ya?at lime-juicer, n.
Tropic Death (1972) 154: Yo’ brute,’ he say. ‘yo whelp, yo’ wan’ to jook out my eye, no! You wan’ to mek me blind, no!’.at juke, v.2
Tropic Death (1972) 65: Keep outa this, if you don’t want to get your goddam head mashed in.at mash, v.
Tropic Death (1972) 64: Hey, Porto Rico, snap into it! Dis ain’t no time to get foolin’ wit’ no monkey jane.at monkey, adj.
Tropic Death (1972) 25: Is yo’ drunk dat yo’ can’t fomembah me sistah-in-law what had a white picknee fo’ ’ar naygeh man?at pickney, n.
Tropic Death (1972) 145: A mulatto cane cutter, poxy progentitor of twenty-one husky mule driving sons.at poxy, adj.
Tropic Death (1972) 123: She continued singing a Sankey hymn.at sankey, n.
Tropic Death (1972) 58: Ah tell yo’ he is a sheik, tryin’ to git nex’ to dat hot yallah mama.at sheik, n.1
Tropic Death (1972) 36: I wuz jus’ gwine ask yo’ to len’ me a pinch o’ salt when dat chile o’ yours skin up she behin’ at me.at skin up (v.) under skin, v.1
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