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

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