From Zora Neale Hurston’s Glossary of Harlem Slang
From Zora Neale Hurston’s Glossary of Harlem Slang
Astorperious—haughty, biggity
Bad hair—Negro type hair
Balling—having fun
Beat up your gums-talking without purpose
Butt sprung—a suit or a skirt out of shape in the rear
Coal scuttle blonde—black woman
Collar a hot—eat a meal
Color scale—high yaller, yaller, high brown, vaseline brown, seal brown, low brown, dark black
Eight-rock—very black person
Gut-bucket—low dive, type of music, or expression from same
I’m cracking but I’m facking—“I’m wisecracking, but I’m telling the truth”
Jelly—sex
Jook—a pleasure house, in the class of gut-bucket; now common all over the South
Juice-liquor
Nearer my God to thee—good hair
Ofay—white person
Playing the dozens—low-rating the ancestors of your opponent
Red neck—poor Southern white man
Reefer—marijuana cigarette, also a drag
Righteous mass or grass—good hair
Solid—perfect
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