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Where’s the Madam? choose

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[SA] L.G. Berger Where’s the Madam? 97: Sometimes when I get the hell-in with Silence, we have a fearful row which seems to clear the air.
at hell-in, the, adj.
[SA] L.G. Berger Where’s the Madam? 164: He and his charwoman wife had between them bred three ‘white Kaffirs’ — albino natives with white hair, pink eyes, white freckled skin, yet unmistakable native features.
at white kaffir (n.) under kaffir, n.
[SA] L.G. Berger Where’s the Madam? 142: ‘Nanny’ is a term that native girls hate – the same as their being called [...] ‘Mary’.
at Mary, n.
[SA] L.G. Berger Where’s the Madam? 183: The watchboy supplied by Norman’s firm hadn’t come back from his ’off which is the native abbreviation for ‘day off’.
at off, n.2
[SA] L.G. Berger Where’s the Madam? 73: They come along [...] scuffing their dirty, laceless tackies in the dust.
at takkie, n.
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