"fellow" = "A black man"; also "secesh' noun & adj. 1862; and "nub" 1728

[Dan Goncharoff]

What are you talking about? I call it the little finger; I call it the
pinky. I have NEVER called it the pinky finger.

DanG

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> A friend of mine
> with what I'm assuming to be similar nubs on her little fingers - uh,
> by "little fingers" I mean what white folk call "pinky fingers," ...

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