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[UK] Countryman 41-2 34: ‘I’ll give that Wally Bailey what for, if he tells you any more such tales.’ (She may have used her favourite threat of giving him ‘Johnny-up- the-orchard’.).
at johnny-up the-orchard (n.) under johnny, n.1
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 136: Doreen did not want him to get any. ‘It might make him mad. He was not even fully three years. The ganga in it might make him mad like shad.’.
at mad as..., adj.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 165: The red and black puppies of imperialism are deadly! [...] The red, white and black Philistines must fall. Babylon must fall!
at Babylon, n.1
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 65: Profit-making reserve for the white ‘backra’.
at backra, n.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 20: It is only them who have the big brains [...] and the backra pickney that don’t have it hard.
at backra pickney (n.) under backra, adj.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 137: Him is a land-baron, a backra man.
at baron, n.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 68: Go ’way with that batty buoy!
at batty-boy (n.) under batty, n.2
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 60: Him is like leggo beast in the district.
at leggo beast, n.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 76: The Kings High School [...] was one of the schools that served black-eye peas soup all day. The eye alone is black in the white dish.
at black-eye pea soup, n.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 68: ‘Come on, baby. Let’s split this scene. [...] Gal, why the blood-hole you no come on?’ he shouted pulling the woman by the hand.
at bloodhole (n.) under blood, n.1
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 124: Blood claut. Doreen pregnant! What I going to do now?
at bloodclaat!, excl.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 87: He managed to roll over on his stomach to hide the ‘bone-ache’.
at bone-ache (n.) under bone, n.1
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 85: He had got his pay with a lot of ‘brawta’.
at brawta, n.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 62: One of them was standing over the old man face with him buddy in him hand [...] The man say that by the time he reach up to the bus stop, the boys disappear and Daddy swallowed all the piss.
at buddy, n.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 10: ‘If it don’t . . . ’ he took a deep breath, ‘ah, bwoy!’.
at bwoy!, excl.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 68: You head dry like dry-up cocky.
at cock, n.3
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 9: A glass with a little ‘devil soup’ dangling in the bottom.
at devil soup (n.) under devil, n.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 5: Yes, time to dig up from this place.
at dig up, v.2
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 12: Death to all down-pressors. De...a...th to those who trod upon the children of Africa.
at downpressor, n.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 13: If a man can hold a good slaving, that man can make a little dunny. A little something to survive in this wicked land. It dre...a...d...!
at dunny, n.3
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 158: Every Jackman . . . same pay as if in him normal job.
at every man jack (n.) under every, adj.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 29: The conductress was still quarrelling. ‘Damn fasty shit-house!’.
at faastie, adj.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 149: A ‘familyram’ and two sisters stopped.
at family ram (n.) under family, n.1
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 95: Fat-head Charlie could not even read a plan.
at fat-headed, adj.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 122: Freda, don’t ask the young man any fool-fool question.
at foo-foo, adj.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 78: In Britain Mr Mayer would be called a ‘golly-W.O.G.’, Western Orientated Gentleman.
at golly, n.2
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 136: He always had a bottle of ‘ital juice’ made from chainey root and strong-back and a little herbs mixed with milk.
at ital, adj.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 12: ‘The brethren have any more of the ital,’ the man said. Karl took a cigarette from his breast pocket and put the butt between the man’s lips.
at ital, n.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 151: If that man, son of the most high, was in Jam-down, and him not white, him might have to rest in Trench Town.
at Jamdung, n.
[UK] N. Farki Countryman Karl Black 13: The country parts bad but not half as bad as the city of Killsome.
at Killsome, n.
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