1990 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.
1990 L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 42: Albert had run off to England leaving her with ‘the belly’.at belly, the, n.
1990 L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 70: The girl was very stuck-up-looking, boasy and conceited.at boasie, adj.
1990 L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 78: Bwoy, Bella a you broader than Broadway.at bwoy!, excl.
1990 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.
1990 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
1990 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.
1990 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.
1990 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.
1990 L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 15: Well my ‘friend’ them was some mawgre dog!at mauger, adj.
1990 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.
1990 L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 50: She was childless, ‘a mule’, as really unkind people would say.at mule, n.
1990 L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 15: Old nyaga was washing them mouth pan me more than ever.at nagah, n.
1990 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.
1990 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.
1990 L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 43: ‘Take you rass outta mi office,’ Albert hears himself scream.at raas, n.
1990 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.
1990 L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 22: She was such a pretty girl with her smooth sambo colouring.at sambo, n.1
1990 L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 68: This is how Golden Days became the slackest singer in Jamaica.at slack, adj.
1990 L. Goodison Baby Mother and King of Swords 83: All his friends ‘smashed’ him as they passed by.at smash, v.1
1990 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.