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Drylongso: A Portrait of Black America choose

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[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 28: We don’t want to have anything to do with their big muckdemucks.
at muck-a-muck, n.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 234: A lot of these black ones ain’ worth shit, either.
at not worth a shit, phr.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 144: That life in the country wasn’t so such-a-much.
at such-a-much, adj.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 33: This bleeding every month is a pure-dee pain where me and the chair come together.
at where-me-and-the-chair-come-together, n.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 91: The first thing them black people from over there try to do [...] is to see how much white ass he can lick!
at arse-lick, v.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 33: This bleeding every month is a pure-dee pain where me and the chair come together.
at pain in the arse, n.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 232: God is the baddest ass in the firmament! He spare who he want to and He strike who he want to.
at bad-ass, adj.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 232: In heaven, when the deal go down it’s the blackest and the baddest ass that makes the others deuce out.
at bad-ass, n.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 128: For instance, you take this shit-assed travel number [...] what kind of help is that?
at shit-ass, adj.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 234: There was a gray chick that used to come over here askin’ me all kinds of simple-assed questions.
at -assed, sfx
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 90: A lot of these people from those foreign countries may not speak English, but you can look at them and see that they are Aun’ Hagi’s children.
at Aunt Hagar(’s children), n.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 221: Now, bless Gawd! a lotta blackfolks try to do every fool thing they see these buckras do!
at backra, n.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 233: A lotta times I do something just because I’m bad enough to do it [...] they know they gon’ git a stone stompin’ if they ain’ badduh than me.
at bad, adj.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 20: Everybody is bugging the Bear to let these Jews leave [...] I saw this senator telling everybody that if the Russians don’t let the Jews leave Russia, then we should stop selling things to them.
at bear, n.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 113: If that had been my kid [...] I would have warmed his behind for doing that.
at warm someone’s behind (v.) under behind, n.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 74: He won’t even call them men. He says ‘The beni did this’ or ‘The beni have said so-and-so’.
at beni, n.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 17: I’ll bet you a funky monkey and two old maids you would have told me what I could do with this food.
at bet a funky monkey and two old maids (v.) under bet, v.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 232: They start soundin’ on ’em, callin’ ’em biffas and whores just for doin’ what they begged ’em to do!
at biffer, n.2
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 220: These ol’ noices ain’ no bettah! [...] they tryin’ to be biggety with us.
at biggity, adj.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 223: Everybody got [...] reasons for not blowing her game.
at blow someone’s act (v.) under blow, v.2
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 17: I get tired of that one-nation-under-God boogie-joogie. [Ibid.] 143: That white man [...] throws all that moonlight boogie-joogie on them and they eat it up!
at boogie-joogie, n.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 232: Satan [...] fell and the Boss hurled his ass down to low stones!
at Boss, the, n.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 20: If anybody should get up off their jobs for these refugees, it should be those paddies that told them to break bad with the Bear to begin with.
at break bad (v.) under break, v.2
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 284: But, Bruh’ John, it is an advanced age for a person with sickle-cell anemia.
at bro, n.1
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso xv: Brown-skin white-folks – people who are publicly reckoned as white by the Euro-Americans, but who are considered to be nonwhite by black people. [Ibid.] 92: When they gits over here they play brown-skin whitefolks.
at brownskin whitefolks (n.) under brownskin, adj.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 232: Now, Bubba, this is the land and that is the sea.
at bubba, n.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 161: You would still want to get into a built woman and you wouldn’t care what color she was.
at built, adj.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 212: In school we had bulldaggers, fags, some of everything.
at bull-dagger (n.) under bull, n.1
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 20: He comes over here, bumps a black man off his job.
at bump (off), v.
[US] J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 159: One thing about Cal’donia, if she don’t want you, you are out of luck.
at caledonia, n.
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