Announcement
Flyer; advertising handout. Albert has several flyers of Shug in the back of his car.
Button
Clitoris or g-spot
Cookstove
Cooker
Cuss
To curse, criticize, or insult
Daidie
Diaper
Git big
Get pregnant
Hansker
Handkerchief
Hant
Ghost; something that haunts
Headrag
Cloth tied around the skull, with a knot at the base, allowing a small flap to hang down over the neck
Her friend
Euphemism for menstruation
Juke joint
A social gathering-place like a bar, for music and especially blues music, particularly in the early decades of the twentieth century, mainly frequented by African Americans in the southeastern United States
Kinfolks
Relatives
Miration
Admiration
Niggerish
Angry or aggressive
Old Maker
God
Pick his box
To scratch a record. Swain picks his box at Harpo's as the resident DJ.
Rassle
Wrestle
Sass
Confrontational attitude (n); to argue with, provoke, or confront (v)
Spose
Supposed to
Teefs
teeth
Virgin
Someone who has not yet experienced a certain transformative event; to Shug, a virgin is someone who has never had an orgasm
Yourn
Your own
