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[US] F. Dumont Darkey Dialect Discourses 32: Dat settles it beyond argufyin’, and nobody can condispute it.
at argufy, v.
[US] F. Dumont Darkey Dialect Discourses 11: A few kisses does de bizness and foolish man coughs up.
at do the business (v.) under business, n.
[US] F. Dumont Darkey Dialect Discourses 14: Some leads a cat and dog life.
at cat and dog life (n.) under cat, n.1
[US] F. Dumont Darkey Dialect Discourses 5: Yoh entertains yoh frien’s in de kitchen and you has a lot of wuthless coons gallivantin’ ’round yoh.
at coon, n.
[US] F. Dumont Darkey Dialect Discourses 26: Start coughin’, and if you don’t dough up quick, I hopes you choke!
at dough, n.
[US] F. Dumont Darkey Dialect Discourses 14: I notis lots ob goo-goo eyes going on and sly glances.
at goo-goo eyes, n.
[US] F. Dumont Darkey Dialect Discourses 11: She can cry like fun when she wants anyting she saw in a stoh window.
at like fun, adv.
[US] F. Dumont Darkey Dialect Discourses 31: Grape juice is as old as de Garden of Eden whar it was fust brewed.
at grape-juice (n.) under grape, n.1
[US] F. Dumont Darkey Dialect Discourses 25: You may get something or you may get a blank – or in modern slang, a bushel of lemons.
at lemon, n.
[US] F. Dumont Darkey Dialect Discourses 8: Whenebber I sees a tall lanky youth wid legs crossed in de cars wid dem pasionate socks on, and a straw lid down ober his eyes.
at lid, n.
[US] F. Dumont Darkey Dialect Discourses 20: Loaded dice is one ob de lowest, meanest and contempabul methods ob obtaining money under false pretences.
at loaded, adj.
[US] F. Dumont Darkey Dialect Discourses 19: Put money in dat sasser, for it’s a case foh ebbery nigger to ponder obber – Safety First!
at nigger, n.1
[US] F. Dumont Darkey Dialect Discourses 32: So Adam he drank more and more of it till he got paralized. I don’t mean from the effects ob the juice.
at paralysed, adj.
[US] F. Dumont Darkey Dialect Discourses 15: If she whacks you on the right cheek, turn de left one to her and say soak me again, petty, and maybe she will.
at petty, n.
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