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The Ups and Downs of the Jamaican Boy Newsy Wapps choose

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[WI] ‘Uncle Newton’ Ups and Downs of Newsy Wapps Bk 1 31: I squirm and wriggle and fuss and she ‘Kunks’ me in my head.
at conk, v.2
[WI] ‘Uncle Newton’ Ups and Downs of Newsy Wapps Bk 1 5: Warning me to ‘shut up’ and to ‘dry it up, ‘AT ONCE’.
at dry up, v.
[WI] ‘Uncle Newton’ Ups and Downs of Newsy Wapps Bk 2 5: Auntie getting me into my Sunday-go-to-Church. Don’t ask me about my tight Eton collar.
at Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes (n.) under Sunday go-to-meeting, adj.
[WI] ‘Uncle Newton’ Ups and Downs of Newsy Wapps Bk 2 30: We thought we ‘had her soft’.
at soft, adv.
[WI] ‘Uncle Newton’ Ups and Downs of Newsy Wapps Bk 2 3: That shearing of our wool [...] that razoring, that twisting and turning of people’s heads.
at wool, n.1
[WI] ‘Uncle Newton’ Ups and Downs of Newsy Wapps Bk 3 14: Who you cutting eye after?
at cut eye, v.1
[WI] ‘Uncle Newton’ Ups and Downs of Newsy Wapps Bk 3 14: The Lopez group exchanged many cuteyes and suck-teeths with the Stephensons.
at kiss teeth (v.) under kiss, v.
[WI] ‘Uncle Newton’ Ups and Downs of Newsy Wapps Bk 5 25: A mighty rat ran across the street in the direction of the ill-named ‘Chigafoot’ market.
at jigger-foot market, n.
[WI] ‘Uncle Newton’ Ups and Downs of Newsy Wapps Bk 5 6: Then Georgie Plummer. Poppyshow! Right into the hole left by Cusha Puss!
at poppy-show, n.2
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