favorite Jamaican words

[Q3210]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

Coodeh over so.
Cooyah inna mi yard.
Tall sleeve shirt.
Soon come!
Later!
Tomorrow!
Yu si mi!
Yu nuh seet?
It sipple down deh!
Mawga dawg!
Crissas!
Cool and deadly!
Blouse and skirt.

[born_jamaican]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

mi ago clean mi flim lata.
rack stone
ratta foot
baxcover.
suck suck
chees trix
bun all kind a bun

mi soon come back

[barosa]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

Will cap off with the following:

Race Course
quashi
backra
ginnal
ginegog
fire fi yu
she little but she talawa
strang like a LION
bottle neck & wire waist.
rub a dub
scrub scrub
sacka sacka

[Q3210]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

What a prekeh.

[Marilyn]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

My baybe dat

[sexyliciousjadehya]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

a wah dis fada

[yozey]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

fatulous
buffulous
gumption
glimmity glammity
good underneath

[Q3210]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

Unnu stop yu `skylarking` in here now.

[Q3210]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

Macca jook mi under mi foot battam [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[tonirand]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

Gi lang laff fi peas soup

Wa dat mean? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[jcanseabee]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

Originally posted by (H)AnnA(H):
[qb] "Gi lang laff fi peas soup"

Wa dat mean? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [/qb]

It means sitting around being unproductive (kind of like what we do here on the boards [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] )

[barosa]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

This thread refuses to die, so here am I with one more kick at the can.

asham (who can remember)
bone-ache (men only)
jangcro
finicky
ard-on
fu-fu
pengeleng
langu la la
jeesam
tchupid
dungle

[SandiF]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

and these...

warra-warra (when lack of cuss words fail, we resort to wey di warra-warra)

[b]wats-it-not (same as warra-warra)

palaav, pahlav (to show-off)

stingy (him stingy - him mean)

cud fish (looking well, hearty)

fenky-fenky or fenkeh-fenkey (weak, feeble)

fall-ee-tee (used in explanation!)

fawt (not p-h-a-r-t-z. can be used as "stop chat fawt." or "wat a piece a fawt a gwaan dung dey so")

[jcanseabee]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

what about boonununus? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[tonirand]

Re: favorite Jamaican words

Nuff !!

Boops [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Bussu Bussu

Chink [img]/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]