arnchy: a person who puts on airs.
August ham: watermelon.
bardacious: marvellous.
berries, the: an expression of approbation.
blue: a very black Negro. Not to be confused with the Blues, Negro songs of disappointment in love.
Blue Vein Circle: after the Civil War the mulattoes organized themselves into a guild from which those who were black were excluded. This form of colour snobbery still persists in many localities.
Bolito: see Numbers.
boody: see hootchie-pap.
bottle it: equivalent to the colloquial English shut up.
buckra: a white person.
brick-presser: an idler; literally one who walks the pavement.
bulldiker: Lesbian.
charcoal: Negro.
C. P. T.: coloured people's time, i. e., late.
Counsellor: a title often given to lawyers among coloured people.
creeper: a man who invades another's marital rights.
daddy: husband or lover.
dicty: swell, in the slang sense of the word.
dinge: Negro.
dogs: feet. Not to be confused with hot-dogs, frankfurters inserted with mustard between two halves of a roll.
Eastman: a man who lives on women.
fagingy-fagade: a white person. This word and the corresponding word for Negro are theatrical hog Latin.
happy dust: cocaine.
high yellow: mulatto or lighter.
hoof: to dance. A hoofer is a dancer, and hoofing 1s dancing.
hootchie-pap: see boody.
jig: Negro.
jig-chaser: a white person who seeks the company of Negroes.
kinkout: hair-straightener.
kopasetee: an approbatory epithet somewhat stronger than all right.
mama : mistress or wife.
Miss Annie: a white girl.
Mr. Eddie: a white man.
monk: see monkey-chaser.
monkey-chaser: a Negro from the British West Indies.
mustard-seed: see high yellow.
Numbers: a gambling game highly popular in contemporary Harlem. The winning numbers each day are derived from the New York Clearing House bank exchanges and balances as they are published in the newspapers, the seventh and eighth digits, reading from the right, of the exchanges, and the seventh of the balances. In Bolito one wagers on two figures only.
ofay: a white person.
papa: see daddy.
passing: i. e., passing for white.
pink: a white person.
pink-chaser: a Negro who seeks the company of whites.
punkin-seed: see high yellow.
scronch: a dance.
shine: Negro.
smoke: Negro.
snow: cocaine.
spagingy-spagade: Negro.
struggle-buggy: Ford.
unsheik: divorce.