![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies")
6 Dec. Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 19: Poh! now, bother, my dear!at bother!, excl.
6 Dec. Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 19: Poh! now, bother, my dear! 6 Dec. Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 19: The ship lies on the rock as safe and as quiet, by Jasus, as if she were lying on a mud bank!at Jesus!, excl.
26 Mar. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 233: Hey-ho-day! me no care a dammee!at not give a damn, v.
Journal of a West India Proprietor (1845) 20 Jan. 63: Peter was a black boy; / Peter, him pull foot one day: / Buckra girl, him Peter’s joy; / Lilly white girl entice him away [...] Well, boy, for this once I forgive you! – but mind! / With the buckra girls you no more go away!at backra, adj.
28 Apr. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 308: O ki! [...] me know now what makes the buckras all so white!at backra, n.
21 Jan. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 124: The ladies who were in the family-way were arranged behind them. Their title in Jamaica is rather coarse, but very expressive [...] I asked Cubina one day ‘Who is that woman with a basket on her head?’ ‘Massa,’ he answered, ‘that one belly-woman going to sell provisions at the Bay.’.at belly-woman (n.) under belly, n.
4 Mar. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 205: The most worthless rascal on the estate, whom for manifold offences I was compelled [...] to allow to pass two days in the bilboes.at bilbo, n.
20 Jan. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 121: Poor Blacky Peter what him do?at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
22 Jan. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 129: One species of flattery (or of Congo-saw, as we call it here) amused me much this morning.at congo-saw (n.) under congo, n.2
4 Jan. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 67: A few John-Crows – a species of vulture [...] gobbles it up before you can say ‘John Crow,’ much less ‘Jack Robinson’.at before one can say Jack Robinson under Jack Robinson, n.
6 Mar. Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 209: I sent him a maccarony for behaving well. [Ibid.] 238: I also gave every man and woman half a dollar each, and every child a maccarony (fifteen pence) as a parting present.at macaroni, n.1
15 Jan. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 106: The offspring of a white man and a black woman is a mulatto; the mulatto and black produce a sambo; from the mulatto and white comes the quadroon; from the quadroon and white the mustee; the child of a mustee by a white man is called a musteefino.at mustee, n.
2 Jan. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 53: Look, Massa, look here! him nice lilly neger for Massa!at nigger, n.1
6 Jan. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 77: Possibly this was all palaver [...] but at least he seemed to be sincere.at palaver, n.
17 Jan. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 112: The old women are preparing food on the lawn for the piccaninnies, whom they keep feeding at all hours of the day.at piccaninny, n.
7 May in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 254: My negar, my negar [...] why you stop? me tink, you savee well, who thief me?at savvy, v.
13 Jan. Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 102: It is a matter of perfect indifference to me what becomes of this little ugly husk of mine, when once I shall have ‘shuffled off this mortal coil’.at shuffle (off) (this/one’s mortal coil) (v.) under shuffle, v.
10 Mar. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 214: I have also tried the soldier soup [...] it seemed to me to be composed of cray-fish which had been kept too long.at soldier, n.
8 Jan. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 82: Two women are in the straw already.at in (the) straw under straw, n.
31 Mar. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 240: ‘You no my massa, you my tata!’ said one old woman.at tata, n.1
7 May in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 254: ‘My neger, my neger,’ said Mammy Luna, ‘why you stop? me tink, you savee well, who thief me?’.at thief, v.
1 May in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 400: The child was sent by her mistress [...] to hide some stolen ducks upon a distant property, and on her return blabbed out the errand.at blab, v.
25 Feb. Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 352: He struck her to the ground, beat her with a supplejack, stamped upon her belly, and begged her to be assured of his intention [...] ‘to kick her guts out’.at gut, n.
4 Mar. Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 374: They believed it would give them the power of humbugging the white people.at humbug, v.
8 Mar. in Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) 373: Down dropped the fellow in a moment upon his marrow-bones.at marrowbones, n.
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