Glossary: Scene II
Flanks (22) - The side of a person's or animal's body between the ribs and the hip
Cryptically (22) - Having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure.
Sterling (23) - (Of a person or their work, efforts, or qualities) excellent of valuable.
Conceits (23) - Excessive pride in oneself.
Hovel (24) - A small, squalid, unpleasant, or simply constructed dwelling.
Manhood (25) - Used euphemistically to refer to a man's genitals.
Juliet's tomb (26) - allusion to Romeo & Juliet.
Self-aggrandizement (27) - THe action or process of promoting oneself as being powerful or important.
Funny (28) - Causing laughter or amusement; humorous.
Peculiar (28) - Strange or odd; unusual
Psychoanalyzed (28) - A system of psychological theory and therapy that aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interruption of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association.
Blues (30) - Melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US toward the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s as blacks migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
Rub bellies (30) - to have sexual intercourse
Gritty grind (31) - to have sexual intercourse
Rag-head (31) - A person who wears a turban.
Choo-choo train shuffle (31) - to have sexual intercourse
Navel scratcher (31) - to have sexual intercourse
Knock stomachs (31) - to have sexual intercourse
Liver-lipped (31) - large lips
Wild root cream oil (31) - haircare product designed for african american's
Uncle Tom (32) - title character of Harriet Beaker Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Woolly-head (32) having hair that has the appearance of wool.
Humble (33) - Having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance.
Ofays (33) - Am offensive term for a white person, used by black people.
Tallulah Bankhead (34) - An actress
Wantonly (34) - (Of a cruel or violent action deliberate and unprovoked.
Bessie Smith (34) - Famous African American Singer who died in 1937.
Unruly (34) - Disorderly and disruptive and not amenable to discipline or control.
Charlie Parker (35) - Charlie Parker was a legendary Grammy Award–winning jazz saxophonist who, with Dizzy Gillespie, invented the musical style called bop or bebop.
Neurotics (35) - Suffering from , caused by, or relating to neurosis
Neurosis (35) - A relatively mild mental illness that is not cause by organic disease, involving symptoms or stress (depresseion, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality.
Ex-coons (36) A coon is a black person so an ex-coon is someone who was black but is no longer.
Cryptically (22) - Having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure.
Sterling (23) - (Of a person or their work, efforts, or qualities) excellent of valuable.
Conceits (23) - Excessive pride in oneself.
Hovel (24) - A small, squalid, unpleasant, or simply constructed dwelling.
Manhood (25) - Used euphemistically to refer to a man's genitals.
Juliet's tomb (26) - allusion to Romeo & Juliet.
Self-aggrandizement (27) - THe action or process of promoting oneself as being powerful or important.
Funny (28) - Causing laughter or amusement; humorous.
Peculiar (28) - Strange or odd; unusual
Psychoanalyzed (28) - A system of psychological theory and therapy that aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interruption of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association.
Blues (30) - Melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US toward the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s as blacks migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
Rub bellies (30) - to have sexual intercourse
Gritty grind (31) - to have sexual intercourse
Rag-head (31) - A person who wears a turban.
Choo-choo train shuffle (31) - to have sexual intercourse
Navel scratcher (31) - to have sexual intercourse
Knock stomachs (31) - to have sexual intercourse
Liver-lipped (31) - large lips
Wild root cream oil (31) - haircare product designed for african american's
Uncle Tom (32) - title character of Harriet Beaker Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Woolly-head (32) having hair that has the appearance of wool.
Humble (33) - Having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance.
Ofays (33) - Am offensive term for a white person, used by black people.
Tallulah Bankhead (34) - An actress
Wantonly (34) - (Of a cruel or violent action deliberate and unprovoked.
Bessie Smith (34) - Famous African American Singer who died in 1937.
Unruly (34) - Disorderly and disruptive and not amenable to discipline or control.
Charlie Parker (35) - Charlie Parker was a legendary Grammy Award–winning jazz saxophonist who, with Dizzy Gillespie, invented the musical style called bop or bebop.
Neurotics (35) - Suffering from , caused by, or relating to neurosis
Neurosis (35) - A relatively mild mental illness that is not cause by organic disease, involving symptoms or stress (depresseion, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality.
Ex-coons (36) A coon is a black person so an ex-coon is someone who was black but is no longer.