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[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 120: Not me with the hard liquors [...] Them does bad-up your head.
at bad up, v.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 155: Jennifer was back-backing her half-exposed bamsee against my crotch.
at bamsie, n.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 79: All I had with me was my [...] duty-free plastic Bee-wee airlines bag.
at Beewee, n.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 139: They suddenly caught sight of Eddoes in his bodysuit: ‘Oui papa-yo! But the man naked! Toe-tee and all ringing in the breeze’.
at birthday suit, n.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 160: ‘Bubulups!’ she said.
at bobo, n.1
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 183: Laurence told one of the doormen [...] ‘Go ask your boss-man!’.
at boss man (n.) under boss, n.2
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 121: Leh me see if I could make some change for this breads now.
at bread, n.1
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 55: ‘Where you guys from?’ the one beside me asked. ‘UK?’ [...] ‘You guys Brits?’ he repeated.
at Brit, n.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 231: So watch you foking mout! And tell she cover up her bubbies.
at bubby, n.1
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 13: Let the neighbours peg us for a couple of bullers. Me ain’t bothered.
at bull, n.1
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 185: She appeared again carrying a piece of roasted rachette [i.e. cactus] [...] applied, in the old days at least, to cuts and bruises. Bush-medicine.
at bush, adj.1
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 230: All-you stay-way from them bush-niggers, is what I come to inform. Unnastand? Them niggers is nasty. They ain’t civil – ain’t got no education, no manners!
at bush, adj.1
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 137: Curry goat and buss-up-shot – ‘busted-up-shirt,’ an East Indian bread.
at busted-up shirt, n.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 155: Pushing the cart, we walked. Chipping in time to the soca. [Ibid.] 164: All two thousand of us, chipping together to the soca.
at chip, v.3
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 155: They were beating out the chorus of this year’s chutney hot, ‘Indian soca’.
at chutney, adj.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 189: A minute later the soca was cranking again.
at crank, v.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 164: She informed me, smiling, that she needed to have a ‘serious’ talk with her cuz.
at cuz, n.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 76: ‘Eh-eh, boy!’ he said. ‘But you reach back from America. Come to pay we visit in baboo-nation!’ Baboo being a derogatory synonym for dougla. [Ibid.] 78: My mother discovered an entire family of douglas who’d set up house. [Ibid.] 155: From Drupatee Ramgoonai, her sweetly militant cry to the nation for douglahood.
at dougla, n.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 183: ‘No dreads inside here,’ the guy shouted [...] ‘And no upstart niggers, neither!’.
at dread, n.2
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 125: ‘If I had my druthers,’ he laughed, ‘this pag-face wouldn’t appear on my books either.’.
at druthers, n.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 55: Gimme a freaking pen!
at freaking, adj.1
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 23: What the fock?
at what the fuck!, excl.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 10: Focked his mother too, of course.
at fuck, v.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 13: Out of my league. Out of my focking mind.
at fucking, adj.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 70: Javi wanted to know who were these naked people who smoked ganja. [Ibid.] 120: How much of ganj you want, bro?
at ganja, n.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 180: Save my life you know. Me did feeling plenty geegeeree to go across them stage!
at geegeeree, adj.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 174: I ran into Poison, the band famous for all the wild young girls.Their scandalous bikini-mas. Coolie Caravan was the DJ on their big truck – blasting Denyse Plummer’s ‘Get on Bad’ – and let me tell you the young girls were doing just that.
at get on, v.1
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 14: I usually get them wrong, inevitably I wind up putting goatmouth on myself.
at goat-mouth (n.) under goat, n.1
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 172: He was drunk himself – and probably he’d been running his head for twelve hours straight.
at run one’s head (v.) under head, n.
[UK] R. Antoni Carnival 46: ‘Oh, William,’ she said, ‘do the horrors ever end?’.
at horrors, the, n.
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