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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 01:11:38 +0100
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- From: torkel@SICS.SE
- Subject: Re: Nappy
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- Karen got this right away! And I see now that it occurs in Wentworth &
- Flexner:
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- nappy [derog.] A Negro. 1956: "To call a man *nappy* is to say
- his hair is kinky - a real insult." S. Longstreet, The Real
- Jazz Old and New, 150.
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- So this will become "hans krulliga huvud".
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