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BEDBUG
Volume 4, entries 6995. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → FOLK MEDICINE → ALCOHOLICS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 6995
See, jis' lak dis bed is, yo' take a fellah - ah don' care how he dressed, where he comin' from - de easies' thin' is a church. (Church?) [My transcriber could not understand this word - see later.] Yeah, an' den invite him, whahevah he be at, if he's a fellah love tuh drink an' - it jis' as easy - jis' swipe [swish] dat in dere an' put it in 'is likkah. An' he'll nevah regret seein' likkah no more.
(That's a bedbug, isn't it?)
Yeah, a bedbug. [The preceding word church should be chinch, a legitimate word for bedbug (Cimex lectularius). Several times I also heard about a different bug, the chinch bug (Blissus leucopterus) destructive of grass and grain in the U. S. A. during dry seasons.]
Alcohol is the retrieval label for likkah in the reported drinking context; no chemical composition is established.