...bad like-ah yawz (meaning)

[Xavier]

Have you ever heard the Jamaican term “...bad like-ah yawz" . Do you know where the term "yawz" comes from and what the word means. Make a guess before clicking on this link.

[St_Bess]

Re: ...bad like-ah yawz (meaning)

Badder than yaws mean - bad no hell -- Yaws used to some form of disease on chickens long, long ago when I was a chile. Dem used to ketch the chickens and pick off the yaws I think they bathe the chicken in some sort of mixture of jeyes and lime water. They also used to refer to people with bad foot as having chigga and yaws.

[Xavier]

Re: ...bad like-ah yawz (meaning)

Yuh know yuh stuff...

[Wendy]

Re: ...bad like-ah yawz (meaning)

Mi learndeth something new everyday

Gwaan troo St_bess... yuh bad like yawz!

[Peasie]

Re: ...bad like-ah yawz (meaning)

Well I always thought yaws was something like leprosy that can disfigure facial features??

It was definitely a skin condition that affected a number of Jamaicans in the old days. It was very hard to cure (before anti-biotics) and so if you were bad like yaws you were incorrigible (incurable).

btw mi membah hearing bout fowl yawz tuh

[SandiF]

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Yes, man...this a old time saying and still used today.

Yaws is a terrible chronic infection that affects the skin and bone which left untreated it spread and becomes worse; hence the term "bad like yaws". I think yaws, today is very much treatable and perhaps easily eradicated.

When we heard the term "bad like yaws", you know sey it badda dan bad. lol!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Xavier</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Have you ever heard the Jamaican term “...bad like-ah yawz&quot; . Do you know where the term &quot;yawz&quot; comes from and what the word means. Make a guess before clicking on this link. </div></div>

[mangoskin]

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yes, I googled it, they say a penicillin injection cures it.