Discriptive Jamaican Nicknames and term......do you know any

[Bizzy]

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i remember dat song <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">-- battchry dolly

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[Bizzy]

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Mi did like de Zebra chune pon dis riddim

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[Peasie]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">pretty much qualifies as derogatory in my book </div></div>

<span style="color: #000099">Agreed. But my &quot;not really&quot; was referring to the &quot;black buck&quot; reference. *shrug* Should have made that clear. Carry on.</span>

[elliz20]

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The thing is that I kno proper English, and I know that I am Swedish, I don't try to be Jamaican as you seem to think. I announced that I've been living in Jamaica and know about their country because they said that I didnt know anything about Jamaica. And should try read about their country before I said I knew it- If I did not know it then why would I want to move there? Etc.

When I'm in Jamaica, I talk English with Patois words in it, because its easier to say them, but I talk with an American pronounciation mostly. nowdays I speak more patwa but not all words, mi no soun jamaican :P usually when I talk to my friends (Jamaican) online I talk Patwa couse it easier. I recent the fact that some of the Jamaicans think I want to be Jamaican, because thats not true, I want to live there ... I love the country and it's music, but according to you I dont know that.

mi tink it wld be very fun to aks some1 weh have him pants short; did u tek messurment standin inna wata? :P

[Wahalla]

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yeah I neva like that Jah youth in fact I sent a letter of protest to Segal ...as a <span style="color: #FF0000">drug-dealing ganja-crazed murderous blood-thirsty voodoo cultists</span> I dont like being portrayed as rastafarian!

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">pretty much qualifies as derogatory in my book </div></div>

<span style="color: #000099">Agreed. But my &quot;not really&quot; was referring to the &quot;black buck&quot; reference. *shrug* Should have made that clear. Carry on.</span> </div></div>


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[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">yeah I neva like that Jah youth in fact I sent a letter of protest to Segal ...as a <span style="color: #FF0000">drug-dealing ganja-crazed murderous blood-thirsty voodoo cultists</span> I dont like being portrayed as rastafarian! </div></div>

[Wahalla]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: realgyal</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The thing is that I kno proper English, and I know that I am Swedish, I don't try to be Jamaican as you seem to think. I announced that I've been living in Jamaica and know about their country because they said that I didnt know anything about Jamaica. And should try read about their country before I said I knew it- If I did not know it then why would I want to move there? Etc.

When I'm in Jamaica, I talk English with Patois words in it, because its easier to say them, but I talk with an American pronounciation mostly. nowdays I speak more patwa but not all words, mi no soun jamaican :P usually when I talk to my friends (Jamaican) online I talk Patwa couse it easier. I recent the fact that some of the Jamaicans think I want to be Jamaican, because thats not true, I want to live there ... I love the country and it's music, but according to you I dont know that.

mi tink it wld be very fun to aks some1 weh have him pants short; did u tek messurment standin inna wata? :P

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Guess fi yu name woulda bi...

Viking... wannabee... or bighead ???

[Wahalla]

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em gee all des years mi neva hear af any one name Wasp.. but mi know two man name Wass....

[elliz20]

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Well, my friends had different nicknames,

Puppa
Tinny
Buffy
shun (mi nuh kno how it spell)
n of course hot head

I dont remember the rest but everyone was called many different things.

[elliz20]

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Guess fi yu name woulda bi...

Viking... wannabee... or bighead ??? [/quote]

Well Viking i coulda call mi couse mi no dead so easy n I come frm swe..
Mi nuh waan be any1, Im jus mi, n seh wah mi waan fi seh mi nuh buissness if ppl wanna tink I try to be Jamaican couse ppl a always gna tink things bout u, so let dem gwaan...

Bighead is not me, couse even if I have much things mi nuh like fi seh so. Yesterday me and my husband talked and he say that he see that Swedish people doesnt like to live big or dress expensive etc.. And that is true, we acctualy think its kinda shameful to gwaan so, here its like if someone dress perfect he got to feel ashamed couse everyone look down on him and think who are you trying to be? He have been the one telling me I have to dress good, I have to stop gwaan like im poor :P.. I dont see a problem with that, whats wrong with not bragging?
What are your nicknames?

[jah_yout]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Shabba- Ugly</div></div>


jamaica would disappoint me with this one;

jumping on the &quot;shabba is ugly&quot; bandwagon...like dem a mercan or half eedyat;

i used to always defend shabba whenever some ignorant yanki came with any &quot;ugly&quot; business...especially from men;
i would just quote a shabba tune for those guys...

&quot;mi naw promote ma-ma man&quot;........

[Wahalla]

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Names I have been known in Jamaica.. none have ever stuck...


Heavy punch or george forman.. I got in a fight at 10 and got the hell beaten out of me but there was blood on the ground and one of the other guys got his jaw broken as George Foreman kept doing at the time
cool an deadly.... Tehre is now a police man with that name.... It came before the tune....
Kalash (After the rifle)
Rooster (let your immagination get than one)
Panther (After the condom!)
Shakespeare (My perpensity to know about the mans plays and quote him!)
Hulk (Broadness of my shoulders)
Ka-nu (A derivation of my Taino Name)
Hanoi (Again after the Taino name)
Laza (For family reasons
Legion After the devil who tempted christ !
Jim Dandy.... (After the shoes)
Lopez (For family reasons)
Cuban (I spoke spanish as a child
Spanish (ditto
Columbian (ditto

[elliz20]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wahalla</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Names I have been known in Jamaica.. none have ever stuck...


Heavy punch or george forman.. I got in a fight at 10 and got the hell beaten out of me but there was blood on the ground and one of the other guys got his jaw broken as George Foreman kept doing at the time
cool an deadly.... Tehre is now a police man with that name.... It came before the tune....
Kalash (After the rifle)
Rooster (let your immagination get than one)
Panther (After the condom!)
Shakespeare (My perpensity to know about the mans plays and quote him!)
Hulk (Broadness of my shoulders)
Ka-nu (A derivation of my Taino Name)
Hanoi (Again after the Taino name)
Laza (For family reasons
Legion After the devil who tempted christ !
Jim Dandy.... (After the shoes)
Lopez (For family reasons)
Cuban (I spoke spanish as a child
Spanish (ditto
Columbian (ditto </div></div>

Fun, de only ting i been called in Jamaica is ella, and hothead (not because I smoke but because mi always ave allot to say :P)
Oh now I memba more nicknames they where called
Rattz
Elda
n one they refer to as artist :P...
chimney

[Leddih]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">Quashie</span>: from what i remember it is the same like &quot;black buck&quot; in america...

a kind of (derogatory?) term for a black man...
i believe it is african </div></div>

Not really. The word is West African (likely Ghana) in origin. Lots of people, some even famous, with the last name of &quot;Quashie.&quot;

In Jamaica, a quashie was the name used to describe like how some of us might remember as &quot;bootoo&quot; or &quot;guhtuhpeck&quot;, in other words, like how some Black Americans might say, &quot;Maaaan, he is one IGNINT NEGRO.&quot; </div></div>

Ever heard &quot;blackie tutu deh pon pampas&quot;? &quot;Tutu&quot; or &quot;Toots&quot; for short.