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The Arrivants choose

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[UK] E. Braithwaite ‘Wings of a Dove’ in Arrivants 44: Them clean-face browns in / Babylon Town is who I most fear.
at Babylon, n.1
[UK] E. Braithwaite ‘Rites’ in Arrivants 202: An’ then blue murder start: / ‘Kill one o’ dem, Clyde’, some wise-wun was shoutin’ ‘knock he skull off.
at blue murder, n.
[UK] E. Braithwaite ‘Ritesc’ in Arrivants 198: Is all ver well when it rosy an’ sweet, / but leh murder start an’ bruggalungdung!
at bradarax!, excl.
[UK] E. Braithwaite ‘Tizzic’ in Arrivants 260: Not to mention big-bubbie Babs.
at bubby, n.1
[UK] E. Braithwaite ‘Jah’ in Arrivants 162: With my blue note [...] my ten bebop fingers, my black bottom’d strut, Panama / worksong, my cabin, my hut, / my new frigged-up soul and God’s heaven, / heaven, gonna walk all over God’s heaven . . .
at frigged-up, adj.
[UK] E. Braithwaite ‘Tizzic’ in Arrivants 260: Hick Tizzic was one o’ de few hard back man they got livin’ hey you could trust (except wid yuh daughter).
at hard-back (adj.) under hard, adj.
[UK] E. Braithwaite ‘The New Ships’ in Arrivants 124: Mammies crowded with cloths, / flowered and laughed.
at mammy, n.1
[UK] E. Braithwaite ‘Folkways’ in Arrivants 32: But bes’ leh we get to rass o’ this place; out o’ this ass hole. [...] To rass o’ this work-song.
at raas, v.
[UK] E. Braithwaite ‘Prelude’ in Arrivants 29: To hell with Africa to hell with Europe too, just call my blue black bloody spade a spade and kiss my ass.
at spade, n.
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