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17. MISTER CHARLIE, white man

18. OFAY, white person

19. A PAN-CAKE, humble type of Negro

20. HANDKERCHIEF-HEAD, sycophant type of Negro

21. UNCLE TOM, same as above

22. JAR HEAD, Negro man

23. ZIGABOO, Negro

24. JIG, Negro, a corrupted shortening of zigaboo

25. AUNT HAGAR, Negro race

26. AUNT HAGAR'S CHILLUN, Negro race

27. OLD CUFFEE, Negro (genuine African word for the same thing)

28. SMOKING, OR SMOKING OVER, looking someone over

29. GUT-BUCKET, low dive, type of music or expression from same.

30. SOLID, perfect.

31. CUT, doing something well.

32. STROLL, doing something well

33. COLD, exceeding, well, etc. " Yeah man! He was cold strolling on that trumpet!"

34. PALMER HOUSE, walking flat-footed as from fallen arches.

35. BOOGIE WOOGIE, type of dancing and rhythm. For years in the South it meant secondary syphilis.

36. Park APE, an ugly under-privileged Negro.

37. CAN, rump.

38. STUFF, sex, or excretion, according to how used.

39. BUTT SPRUNG, a suit or a skirt out of shape in the rear.

40. BATTLE-HAMMED, badly formed about the hips.

41. gator-faced, long black face with big mouth.

42. GUT-FOOT, bad case of falled arches

43. LIVER-LIP, pendulous, thick, purple lips.

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44. THE WAGON, police patrol.

45. THE MAN, the law, or powerful boss.

46. GET YOU TO GO, power, physical or otherwise to force the opponent to run.

47. SELL OUT, run in fear

48. GO WHEN THE WAGON COMES, another way of saying, "You may be talking or acting biggity now, but you will cool down when enough power gets behind you. THEY ALL GO WHEN THE WAGON COMES."

49. SENDER, he or she who can get you to go. i.e. got what it takes. It is used often as a compliment. "Solid sender!!"

50. JOOK, a pleasure house in the class of gut-bucket. The houses originated in the lumber, turpentine and railroad camps of Florida. Now common all over the south, even in the towns. They are the cradle of the Blues, and most of the dance steps that finally migrate north.

51. JOOKING, playing the piano, guitar, or any musical instrument in the manner of the Jooks. (Pronounced like 'took') 2. Dancing and "schronching" in the manner. A player may be "getting low-down" at the piano and his listeners may yell out in admiration, "Jook it, papa! Jook!"

52. SOONER, anything cheap and mongrel. Once applied to mongrel dog who would eat anything, even excretion." HE 'd sooner eat stuff as pork chops." Now it applies to cheap clothes, shabby man or woman, etc.

53. DARK BLACK, a casually black person

54. LOW BLACK, a blacker person

55. LAM BLACK, still blacker person

56. DAMN BLACK, blackest, "Why, lightning bugs follows him at twelve oclock in the day, thinking its midnight."

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57. BALLING, having fun.

58. JULY JAM, something very hot. " HOT AS JULY JAM."

59. LITTLE SISTER, measure of hotness, " HOT AS LITTLE SISTER!"

60. PEEPING THROUGH MY LIKKERS, carrying on even though drunk

61. YOUR LIKKER TOLD YOU, misguided behavior. Dutch courage.

62. GINNY GALL, a suburb of Hell, long way off." Way off in Ginny Gall
Where you have to eat cow cunt, skin and all."

63. WEST HELL, another suburb of Hell, worse than the original.

64. BELUTHAHATCHIE, next station beyond Hell.

65. DIDDY-WAH-DIDDY, a far place, measure of distance. (2) Another
suburb of Hell, built on since way before Hell wasn't no
bigger than Baltimore. Where the folks in Hell go for a
big time. All the good joking, barbecues, fish-frys, etc
are held.

66. FREE SCHOOLS, a shortened expression of deprecation. When something
particularly stupid is done, a sad shake of the head,
"Free schools, and dumb Negroes." Sometimes it is em-
bellished with, "Free schools, PRETTY YELLOW teachers,
and dumb Negroes."

67. I'M CRACKING BUT I'M FACKING, " I am wise cracking, (supposedly joking) but I'm telling the truth."

68. NOTHING TO THE BEAR BUT HIS CURLY HAIR, " I call your bluff." Or
"Dont be afraid of him. He wont fight."

69. DUMB TO THE FACT, "You don't know what you're talking about."

70. LIGHTLY, SLIGHTLY, AND POLITELY, doing things perfectly.

71. I SHOT HIM LIGHTLY AND HE DIED POLITELY, "I completely out did him."

72. GEORGIA JUMPING-ROOT, male sex organ.

73. I DONT DEAL IN COAL, "I don't keep company with black women. I prefer the mulatto kind."

74. JUICE, another name for likker

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75. MY PEOPLE! MY PEOPLE!, the saddest and the funniest expression in the Negro language. It is a sad sigh when a progressive Negro observes the backwardness of some members, and realizes that there is nothing that he or she can do about it. For instance, seeing and hearing some loud-mouthed Negroes making themselves thoroughly disgusting in places common to both white and black. At other times it is used with hilarious effect. One story built around it goes like this:

A monkey was sitting in the middle of the highway playing with his tail and toes, when a Cadillac ful of white people came along. Seeing the happy little monkey, they carefully drove off on the shoulder of the road to pass him without disturbing him. The monkey kept on playing. A Buick full of some more white folks came by and did the same. The monkey kept on playing. Then a T Model Ford came rattling down the road full of Negroes. Instead of trying not to disturb the monkey, they tried to run over him, and almost succeeded. The Monkey leaped to the side of the road just in time to save his life. He watched the Ford fattling off with the driver cursing at him, and shook his head sadly and sighed, "MY PEOPLE! MY PEOPLE!!!" Some say that the monkey has stopped saying 'my people, my people!' They say that he is now saying, "Those people! Those people!!"

76. BIG BOY, stout fellow. But in the South in means fool and is a prime insult. Here again, it took up in the north without being understood. It is a fighting word in the South. If you call a Ngero Big Boy, he will tell you something like this: "Dont you call me no Big Boy. Elephant is bigger

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than me, and he got a name. Taint no more Big Boy. (There are
no more fools) They kilt Big Boy shooting at Fat Sam."

73. ZOOT SUIT WITH THE REET PLEAT, Harlem style suit, padded shoulders, 43 inch trousers at the knee with cuff so small it izx needs a zipper to get into, high waist line, fancy lapels, bushels of buttons, etc.

78. DRAPES, same thing as Zoot.

79. Shags, same as above.

80. DRAPED DOWN, dressed in the heighth of Harlem mood.

81. TOGGED DOWN, same as above.

82. RIGHTEOUS RAGS, Shags, zoots, drapes, etc.

83. YOUNG SUIT, ill fitting, too small. You are supposed to be breaking in your little brother's suit for him. That is what the observers pretend to believe on seeing it.

84. CABBAGE, female sex organ. "Oh, she cooks good cabbage."

85. BREAD, female sex "Good bread!"

86. DAT THING, sex of either sex.

87. GROUND RATIONS, sex.

88. UNDER RATIONS, sex.

89. POONTANG, boody.

90. BOODY, female sex organ

"I hold my dress up to my knees, and I give my poontang to who I please. I hold my dress up in the back and I give my boody to white and black. Oh Pooooontang!!"

91. RUG-CUTTER, person who frequents house-rent parties, cutting up the rugs of the host with his feet. Now means a good dancer. Originally meant a person too cheap or too poor to patronize regular dance halls.

92. STANCH, OR STANCH OUT, to begin, commence, step out.

93. AIR OUT, leave, flee, stroll.

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94. RUSSIAN, a southern Negro up north, "Rushed up here from Georgia" hence a rushian.

95. THE BEAR, confession of poverty:

Just like de bear, I aint nowhere (broke)

Like de bear's brother, I aint no further

Like de bear's daughter, aint got a quarter

96. FUNCTION, from FUNK, a small unventilated dance full of people too casually bathed.

97. PECKERWOOD, poor, and unloved class of southern whites.

98. FIRST THING SMOKING, a train. "Yeah man! I'm through with this town.

I mean to grab the first thing smoking."

99. HAULING, fleeing on foot." Man! He cold hauled it!"

100. KITCHEN MECHANIC, domestic

101. BROAD, girl or woman

102. FRAIL EEL, pretty girl

103. RED NECK, poor southern white man

104. MACK, a P.I., a jelly bean.

105. PERCOLATING, parading down the Avenue

106. CRUISING, same as above

107. OOZING, same as above

FREE-WHEELING?, same as above but more briskness is implied.

109. GIT UP OFF OF ME!, quit talking about me. leave me alone.

110. NOW YOU COOKING WITH GAS!, now you're talking!, in the groove, etc.

111. GETTING ON SOME STIFF TIME, really laying your racket

112. SPREADING YOUR JENK, same as above.

113. JUMP SALTY, get angry

114. KNOCK YOURSELF OUT, have a good time

115. DIG, understand. " Dig me?" means do you get me? Do you collar the jive?"

116. COLLAR A NOD, sleep

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139. BROTHER IN BLACK, Negro

140. HAMBONE, male sez organ.

141. GETTING MY HAMBONE BOILED, committing sex.

142. STOMP, low dance, but hot man!

143. 8- rock, very black person

144. INKY DINK, same as above.

145. THE BIG APPLE, THE BIG RED APPLE, New York City

146. BAM, DOWN IN BAM, down south.

147. WHIP IT TO THE RED, beat your head until it is bloody.

148. PLAYING THE DOZENS, low-rating the ancestors of your opponent. Most unsafe game unless you are well armed.

149. DATS YOUR MAMMY, playing the dozens, same as "So is your old man."

150. MAMMY, a term of insult. Never used by Negroes in any other way.

151. (GIRLS AS COMMENTED ON MX IN HARLEMSESE)

If she is white, she's all right.

If she is yellow, she's mellow

If she is brown, she can stick around

If she's black, she better get 'way back!

Respectfully submitted,

Zora Neale Hurston
C/o General Delivery
St. Augustine, Florida