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Georgie May choose

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[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 36: He’s jake with some mighty high mucky-mucks.
at muck-a-muck, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 13: He was six feet high in his socks, the bigges’ broth of a boy yez ever laid eyes on.
at broth of a boy, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 56: ‘Howdy, Colby, howah they coming?’ he asked, with a grin.
at how are they stacking up?, phr.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 73: They love to haind out that ol’ b.s.
at b.s., n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 72: Sparking with Emmy, and his woman near death, the bed-bug.
at bedbug, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 130: Poah gal, still got three big ones to go.
at big one, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 99: There’s one fellah ah’d love to do up brown [...] Blabbing lak blue murdah’n fo’ his measly five.
at like blue murder (adv.) under blue murder, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 20: ’Member the black skunk that called me ‘cheap white booty’. [Ibid.] 237: He here was [...] with an entrée into the niftiest booty-dives in town.
at booty, n.2
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 99: There’s one fellah ah’d love to do up brown [...] Blabbing lak blue murdah’n fo’ his measly five.
at do up brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 77: Slap her butties.
at butt, n.1
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 28: She’d land both of us in the caboose.
at caboose, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 70: Gawgie found a man with a candystick — ye-es, she did!
at candy cane (n.) under candy, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 38: They really considered themselves ‘ladies of leisure’ and not mere cheap-skate scum.
at cheapskate, adj.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 107: These coffin-nails taste lak shugah—give me Home-runs ev’y time.
at coffin nail, n.2
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 55: An old hand, who had once helped him turn a dishonest penny in a coke-deal.
at deal, n.1
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 28: Diggedy dog, ah wish you’d brained her! [Ibid.] 103: Hot jiggety, if Dopey did fo’ Mike they’ll shuah puy youah behind in the jug.
at hot diggety (dog)!, excl.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 103: Hot jiggety, if Doped did fo’ Mike they’ll shuah put youah behind in the jug.
at do for, v.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 43: Come on, we’ll take a load off ouah doggies.
at dogs, n.1
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 21: She never smiled and laughed for the same reason that the others did, doping themselves up with hoping, and bragging.
at dope up (v.) under dope, v.1
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 296: Thank the lawd, she isn’t doped up!
at doped, adj.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 36: Ah tote them in hunky-dory.
at hunky-dory, adv.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 236: She could spot the fakirs in a minnit.
at fakir, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 47: Am ah queer lak ’cause ah want to be alone now and forget the wole freaking business?
at freaking, adj.1
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 260: Jimminy-Whillikins, ah cain’t hahdly believe it!
at gee whillikins!, excl.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 234: Ah don’ seem to have no get-up this aftahnoon.
at get-up, n.1
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 236: Might be a working-girl.
at working girl, n.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 234: Here ah am, all spruced up in mah Sunday-go-to-meeting duds.
at Sunday go-to-meeting, adj.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 44: Oh, let him go to grass — ah’m not begging from no man.
at go to grass!, excl.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 137: Sometimes finding a man that knew how to grind and looked handsome.
at grind, v.
[US] M. Bodenheim Georgie May 254: They was strong and gritty, lak men ought to be.
at gritty, adj.1
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