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Black Talk 22: ‘Morning, me child.’ ‘Morning, Aunty!’.at aunt, n.
Black Talk 22: ‘Morning, me child.’ ‘Morning, Aunty!’. Black Talk 4: He wanted to talk after the Bakra. He was in Bakra country now.at backra, adj.
Black Talk 4: He wanted to talk after the Bakra. He was in Bakra country now. [Ibid.] 6: Ba-kara came to the West Indies very early. In an old book on Barbadoos – ‘Great Newes from the Barbadoes’ (1676) – a Negro is reported as saying he would have no hand in killing ‘the Baccararoes or White Folks’.at backra, n.
Black Talk 23: A big-able man, a big-able house, a big-able dinner.at big-able (adj.) under big, adj.
Black Talk 31: ‘Big Eye’ typifies gluttony.at big eye, n.
(ref. to 1720s) Black Talk 1: It was the policy of the slave trader – as he went ‘blackbirding’ on the West Coast.at blackbirding, n.
Black Talk 24: But look at this boy! He too bragga!at braggadocious, adj.
Black Talk 26: Dem people, sah! Dem a cut Kongo (talk the Kongo language) fo’ true.at cut, v.1
Black Talk 70: ‘Cat scratch ma!’ has gone out a little I think. ‘Dawg boite ma!’ is still in use. ‘Dawg boite ma, an’ sparrow blow ma!’ may be heard upon extraordinary occasion.at dog bite ’em! (excl.) under dog, n.1
Black Talk 34: But boy, wha’ make you so ha’d-ears?at hard-ears, adj.
Black Talk 31: To ‘cut your eye’ at anybody is to look askance at him.at cut one’s eyes (v.) under eye, n.
Black Talk 31: To play or make, ‘strong eye’ is to play a bold game.at strong-eye, adj.
Black Talk 31: Relation, relative. ‘He is any family to you?’.at family, n.1
Black Talk 45: Boy, tek dis scrip to Mr. Abraham. And pull foot, yeh!at pull foot (v.) under foot, n.
Black Talk 49: Hassar-soup (said a Mud-head) is ‘sweet too bad’.at mud-head, n.
Black Talk i: How do you make out?at make out, v.
Black Talk 30: Nuff-nuff is plenty-plenty.at nuff, adj.
Black Talk 1: He-self a gi’ me nyam.at nyam, n.
Black Talk 9: Nyanga – A dude. To play the dude. ‘Boy, you is real nyanga.’.at nyanga, n.
Black Talk 43: Dem peeny li’l boy an’ all gi’e rudeness.at peeny, adj.
Black Talk 14: You no see da fashion pickny a l’arn fo’ talk – when he papa a talk he a watch papa mout’?at pickney, n.
Black Talk 54: To ‘take walk’ does not necessarily mean to go on Shank’s mare.at shanks’s pony, n.
Black Talk 51: Daddy Quashie takes but little stock of time in its minute divisions.at quashie, n.
Black Talk 74: Soley/soulie – a term of endearment [...] ‘Soley! I gone.’.at soul, n.2
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