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[WI] Anderson & Cundall in Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings vi: Hi! wha dis Bockra get all dem old time saying!
at backra, n.
[WI] Anderson & Cundall Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings 4: Two bit neber braggin’ as one fippenny.
at two bit, n.
[WI] Anderson & Cundall Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings 4: God bwoy neber sleep hungry.
at bwoy, n.
[WI] Anderson & Cundall Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings 9: Cubbitch fe one plum, you lose de whole bunch.
at cubbitch, adj.
[WI] Anderson & Cundall Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings 10: Cuss-cuss no bore hole in a me ’kin.
at cuss-cuss, n.
[WI] Anderson & Cundall Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings 37: Hard aise pickney neber go good.
at hard-eyes, adj.
[WI] Anderson & Cundall Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings 4: Two bit neber braggin’ as one fippenny.
at fippence, n.
[WI] Anderson & Cundall Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings 1: No cuss alligator long mout’ till you cross riber.
at long-mouth (n.) under long, adj.
[WI] Anderson & Cundall Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings 37: Mauger plantain better dan none at all.
at mauger, adj.
[WI] Anderson & Cundall Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings 33: Neger wha fin’ dead man mus’ be de man who kill him.
at nigger, n.1
[WI] Anderson & Cundall Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings 16: Nyam-nyam wi’ full you belly, but breeze can’t full you.
at nyam, n.
[WI] Anderson & Cundall Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings 28: If you cuss John Crow peel-head, turkey wi’ bex.
at peel-head (adj.) under peel, v.
[WI] Anderson & Cundall Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings 11: One daddy fe twenty picknie, but twenty picknie no fe one daddy.
at pickney, n.
[WI] Anderson & Cundall Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings 7: If you can ’t ketch quashie you ketch him shut [shirt].
at quashie, n.
[WI] Anderson & Cundall Jamaica Proverbs and Sayings 44: If you wan’ fe ketch a tief fine him track.
at t’ief, n.
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