Heard on The Judges: crack

[Wilson Gray]

Late-thirty-ish black, female plaintiff:

"She might not be using crack no more, but she still have _crackish ways_."

I.e, acts like a person who uses crack. This usage is very common in
in BE, cf., e.g. "Manish Boy"[sic; the original title], the Muddy
Waters rip-off of Bo-Diddley's "I'm A Man," implying that the song is
about a boy who acts as though he's a man, i.e., has mannish ways.

This feels like something that's also used in other dialects. Is it?

-Wilson

--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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 -Sam'l Clemens

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