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‘John Cunnoo’ Jam. Dialect Poems 22: Go dung King Street an meck we meet / Nuff ass-head an John cunnoo.at asshead, n.
‘John Cunnoo’ Jam. Dialect Poems 22: Go dung King Street an meck we meet / Nuff ass-head an John cunnoo. ‘Registration’ in Jam. Dialect Poems (1949) 56: Lawd a massi, me feel happy / For me glad fe se at las’ / Ooman dah mek up dem mine fe / Serve back man dem sowa sauce!at back-door man (n.) under back-door, n.
‘Yuh Nephew Sue’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 16: Bans a big-shot money-men was deh.at bans, n.
‘Season Ticket’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 6: One cut-wey coat, / A centre-part, an bat-wing bowtie.at batwing, n.
‘A’merica’ in Jam. Dialect Poems (1949) 46: Be de time yuh sey ‘puss-pickney’ / As yuh y’eye quint, as yuh yawn.at before one can say ‘Jump Nigger’, phr.
‘A Gran Sinting’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 26: Yuh wi full a braggadoshusness / Be time de curtain drop.at braggadocious, adj.
‘De Flu’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 31: Coolie, chiney, nayga, jew [...] Everybody got de flu!at coolie, n.1
‘Rackit’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 9: It is a wicked rackit! / Dem bwoy dah gwan too bad yaw mah, / An smady haffe crack it!at crack it, v.1
‘Sweetie-Pie’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 9: Donkey tink him cub a race-horse, / John crow tink him pickney white.at John Crow, n.1
‘Eart’quake Night’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 19: She cuss po Amy ‘black’.at cuss, v.
‘De Latis News’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 43: Buy a newspapah, / Yuh wi fine nuff cus-wud eena / ‘Lettas to de edita’.at cuss-word (n.) under cuss, n.2
‘Some A Dem’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 11: Yuh ever hear some cut bad talk. [Ibid.] 120: Yuh want hear har cut Spanish.at cut, v.1
‘Married’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 29: She rush [...] In time fe se Herman / Dah sey ‘I thou wed’ an put ring / Pon dry-head Emma han!at dry-head, adj.
‘Buy Somet’ing’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 6: Noh tink me fas’ mah but de way / How fe her head peel aff / She musa had a double dose / A enemy air-craf’.at fast, adj.3
‘C’ristmus Ham’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 49: Wat a big an so-so foo-fool gal.at foo-foo, adj.
‘Rightful Way’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 40: Yuh mean yuh such a goat!at goat, n.1
‘De Flu’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 31: An dah cuss him how him hoggish.at hoggish, adj.
‘Tree-Mile Bus’ Jam. Dialect Poems 109: Yuh can cuss me, yuh can beat me, / Yuh can call me all de ‘it’.at it, n.1
‘Applicant’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 3: Yuh haffe lively up yuhself, / An jive, yuh know dem way? [Ibid.] 12: Jive is de Kin’ston way fe dance.at jive, v.1
‘Belly-Full’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 28: Wen dem get hot an mad yuh, / Dem crack sweet joke an jive.at jive, v.1
‘Labrish’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 13: Me haffe write / De labrish wile it hot.at labrish, n.
‘Labrish’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 13: Curry goat an rice an bread! All like how yuh licky-licky, / Yuh hooda ketch home dead!at licky-licky, adj.2
‘Show Yuh Foot’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 42: You shame fe show yuh mawga foot?at mauger, adj.
‘Storm Tonic’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 17: Nuff-nuff cultivation blow dung.at nuff, adj.
‘Wat A Dicans’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 46: No cry Miss Lou, we nyam de lime.at nyam, v.
‘Jamaica Patoah’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 121: Leah fadah outside darter son / Wey dem call knock-knee Joe.at outside, adj.
‘Tree-Mile Bus’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 109: Me ha’ six pickney.at pickney, n.
‘Labrish’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 14: An so de music pop sweet tune.at pop, v.1
‘So De Heat’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 8: Side a dem is poppyshow.at poppy-show, adj.
‘Jamaica Patoah’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 121: W’en him ask har ’ow much me owe har [...] Miss Liza bawl out, / ‘Is shillin’ an’ quatty!’.at quattie, n.
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