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Baby Mother and King of Swords choose

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[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 15: J.P.’s hairdressing parlour, where barracudas gather to wash their hair and wash their mouths on other women.
at barracuda, n.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 42: Albert had run off to England leaving her with ‘the belly’.
at belly, the, n.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 70: The girl was very stuck-up-looking, boasy and conceited.
at boasie, adj.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 78: Bwoy, Bella a you broader than Broadway.
at bwoy!, excl.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 23: Chuh you hear that Sylvyie, me come a town come tun Deejay you know, coulda cut a chune, ‘Make them hear, for me no care.’.
at cha!, excl.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 68: There were a lot of [...] pretty uptown girls who were cheeking him after he did stage shows, women who loved to hear the slackness.
at cheek, v.1
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 43: You really is a facety dirty dog.
at facety, adj.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 23: Country people called Kingston, ‘Killsome’, and it was a place that had killed some people in its time.
at Killsome, n.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 4: When people say I’m ‘maddy, maddy’, my mother says, ‘Leave her, I was just like that.’.
at maddy, adj.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 55: Nobody had ever seen anybody ‘mash it up’ like that so; nobody had ever seen anybody in such a glorious temper ‘mash up the place to blow wow’.
at mash it (up) (v.) under mash, v.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 15: Well my ‘friend’ them was some mawgre dog!
at mauger, adj.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 73: It was really she he was dancing with not Miss High-and-Mighty in the red chiffon dress.
at Miss, n.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 50: She was childless, ‘a mule’, as really unkind people would say.
at mule, n.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 15: Old nyaga was washing them mouth pan me more than ever.
at nagah, n.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 53: She always said the same thing when she came through the gate, ‘Papa, ah come’.
at papa, n.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 79: You no think say that you could just park the buying and selling little make me and you reason bout somethings?
at park, v.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 43: You is a real poppyshow.
at poppy-show, n.2
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 43: ‘Take you rass outta mi office,’ Albert hears himself scream.
at raas, n.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 55: The men kept saying he had gone rass mad ... nobody tried to restrain him for he had murder in his eyes. [...] Frenchie bad no rass bwoy. You see him just fling the things, chuh.
at raas, adj.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 22: She was such a pretty girl with her smooth sambo colouring.
at sambo, n.1
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 68: This is how Golden Days became the slackest singer in Jamaica.
at slack, adj.
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 83: All his friends ‘smashed’ him as they passed by.
at smash, v.1
[WI] L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 15: Old nyaga was washing them mouth pan me more than ever.
at wash one’s mouth upon (v.) under wash, v.
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