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[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 165: ’Ey ’s on’y one hot baby, misteh, an’ ’at’s Misteh Peteh Jackson.
at hot baby (n.) under baby, n.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh 194: She’s got mo’ feathehs ’an any otheh blackbuhd ’at eveh flew ’long Deahbohn Street.
at blackbird, n.1
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 157: I see Clay Walkeh an’ some mo’ boys rollin’ ’e bones.
at roll the bones (v.) under bones, n.1
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 114: He’d get gay an’ tell that Twenty-fourth Street girl all about it an’ she’d tell somebody else an’ they’d have him in the booby-hatch in about two hours.
at booby-hatch, n.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 171: She kep’ lookin’ at ’e window, an’ neveh see me at all—jus’ gi’ me ’at ‘brush-by’ sign.
at brush-off, n.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 129: I got no money to waste on no piece o’ calico.
at calico, n.1
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 132: Who was ’at cullud rascal ’at tried to make me out chick-lifteh?
at chicken-lifter (n.) under chicken, n.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 168: When she gets th’ough ’ith him he’s so clean he don’ need to take no bath faw month.
at clean, adj.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 219: She got no use faw man ’at’s cleaned all ’e time.
at cleaned (out), adj.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 165: Gawge Dixon’s [a] puhty warm boy, an’ ’at Miasteh Joe Woolcott ain’t so cold.
at not so cold under cold, adj.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 134: She’s full of ’at ol’ con. She think she got me right now.
at con, n.1
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 171: She’s took a lot of at co’n f’m ’em cullud boys.
at corn, n.2
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 193: Is he the Pullman porter that cut you and George Lippincott out?
at cut out, v.2
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 146: Do n’ like to be called dahkies neetheh. It use to be Et’op’ans, but now it’s Af’o-Ameh’cans.
at darkie, n.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 133: It ain’t wrote in no book ’at Gawge Lippincott can do me at no game.
at do, v.1
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 191: I’m so dopey now I can’t finish yo’ shoe.
at dopey, adj.1
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 168: Mis’ Adams come down heah ’bout twice a week an’ shake Misteh Adams down f’ ev’y cent he’s got.
at shake down, v.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 164: If Peteh eveh comes back ’iss way, somebody has sutny got to be eat, yes, seh!
at eat, v.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 135: Befo’ I sprung ’at wheel game, Gawge Lippincott had me done easy—had me faded.
at fade, v.1
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 173: I got good on gin an’ honey.
at good, n.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 114: Boy, wheah you get ’at green stuff?
at green stuff (n.) under green, adj.1
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 130: ’At’s sutny ’e hottes’ thing you handed me yet.
at hand, v.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 197: ’At Belle’s a hot tomolley.
at hot tamale, n.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 133: Little ol’ Miss Lo’ena’s hot membeh. She’s so wahm you can feel ’e heat on otheh side of ’e street when she goes past.
at hot member, n.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 207: I do n’ wan’ no sody-juggleh out o’ no drug-stoah to stan’ round an’ rubbeh when I’m talking.
at jerker, n.1
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 143: Call ’em misteh so-and-so. ’At’s someping ’ey do n’t of’en get an’ it jollies ’em.
at jolly, v.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 174: Yes, seh, he’s been knockin’ good an’ plenty.
at knock, v.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 132: ‘Who was ’at cullud rascal ’at tried to make me out chicken-lifter?’ ‘[...] He did n’t say that you stole chickens.’.
at lifter, n.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 219: I had ’em comin’ good, but little Joe use me bad, an’ somebody get in hosses.
at little Joe (n.) under little, adj.
[US] Ade Pink Marsh (1963) 126: Vussitle gen’us — ’at’s lolly-cooleh.
at lollycooler, n.
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