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Jacaranda in the Night (1981) I 346: ‘Basson is babelas again,’ one of the labourers said, meaning that he was suffering from a hangover.at babalaas, n.
Jacaranda in the Night (1981) I 346: ‘Basson is babelas again,’ one of the labourers said, meaning that he was suffering from a hangover. Jacaranda in the Night (1981) I 383: Next time you feel you would like a bit of fluff, you just go about it in the same way, and you’ll click.at bit of fluff (n.) under fluff, n.1
Jacaranda in the Night (1981) I 383: Here was Hans Korf carrying on [...] like some unsophisticated yokel, like the kind of person she heard men [...] describe as a ‘skapie’.at skaap, n.
Jacaranda in the Night (1981) I 304: Hans Korf placed more drinks before them. ‘Here’s to the skin off your nose.’.at skin off your nose! (excl.) under skin, n.1
Jacaranda in the Night (1981) I 365: I’ll break his neck and yours. [...] That long slab of misery!at (long) streak of misery (n.) under streak, n.
Jacaranda in the Night (1981) I 299: We got to have a sundowner. What’s yours, dearie?at sundowner, n.
Jacaranda in the Night (1981) I 299: We got to have a sundowner. What’s yours, dearie?at what’s yours?, phr.
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 137: Act up as if you’re screwy. But not too much, mind. Just enough to get the old horse-doctor really interested in you.at act up, v.
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 58: I would have to listen to five or six different kinds of bleat every time.at bleat, n.
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 30: When I is blue like what I is now, then I says you can maar keep me locked up in the old boob as long as you blerrie well like.at blerry, adj.
Cold Stone Jug n.p.: Their favourite word for it was ‘blue’. ‘To be blue’ in [...] prison slang didn’t mean melancholy. If somebody said [...] ‘Man ek is blou’ it meant that his mind was heavy with gaudy dreams [...] If a man said, ‘I was blue when I done it’ [...] it wasn’t he [...] but the dagga.at blou, adj.
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 125: Well you certainly had me in the blue funks [...] I really believed I was going out of my mind.at blue funk (n.) under blue, adj.1
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 30: ‘Blue’ was the most usual way of talking about being under the spell of dagga. [...] ‘When I is blue like what I is now, then I says you can maar keep me locked up in the old boob as long as you blerrie well like.’.at blue, adj.2
Willemsdorp (1981) I 510: Josias said he was peddling ‘Bloo-drimmes’. [...] Not anybody would be able to interpret that, just straight off, as ‘blue-dreams’.at blue, adj.2
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 3: Even the most hardened blue-coats (habitual criminals) broke down. [Ibid.] 50: I felt sorry for him because he was doing his second blue-coat.at bluecoat, n.
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 20: In South Africa, there was actually a class of person who spoke an argot that was known only to his kind. Boob slang, they called it. Boob, and not jug, being the Swartklei prison word for prison.at boob, n.1
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 27: The dagga habit was pretty strongly entrenched among the regular gaolbirds. They had all sorts of names for it, ‘boom’ being the most common.at boom, n.2
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 30: ‘Blue’ was the most usual way of talking about being under the spell of dagga, but there were other expressions like [...] ‘boomed up’.at boomed up (adj.) under boom, n.2
Cold Stone Jug (1969) 47: ‘Blue’ was the most usual way of talking about one being under the spell of dagga, but there were other expressions, like [...] ‘boomed up’.at boomed up (adj.) under boom, n.2
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 25: ‘You didn’t say a bit of bum, did you?’ Then I twigs. ‘O that,’ I says, [...] ‘What do you expect a man to do, locked up night after night, and no women?’.at bit of bum (n.) under bum, n.1
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 48: The warder would hand the tobacco to the ‘channel’ – some long-timer. [...] This convict would again take half the tobacco for himself and pass on the remainder.at channel, n.
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 77: Every time he got bullied over the job, [he] passed it on to the trades-warders, and they in turn chewed the ears off the discipline screws.at chew someone’s ear, v.
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 23: I have been twice warned for the coat.at coat, n.
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 25: Not even a kaffir-woman. Or a coolie-woman.at coolie, adj.
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 125: I got crap-scared. I thought as the whole boob was going mad, and me also.at crap-scared (adj.) under crap, n.1
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 22: But the lazaretto is crook, now.at crook, adj.
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 20: Shoes they called daisies.at daisy-beaters (n.) under daisy, n.
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 63: So I done my dash with the sandbag, [...] I made up my mind, there and then, that I wasn’t going to do no more sandbagging.at do one’s dash (v.) under dash, n.1
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 27: The dagga habit was pretty strongly entrenched. [...] They also called it ‘Nellie’ or ‘grass’ [...] or ‘American green leaf’ or ‘pappegaai’.at nellie (deans), n.
Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 57: They would tell me [...] about how they tried to save the family honour or about how the johns rung a dirty on them with fabricated evidence.at ring a dirty (v.) under dirty, n.
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