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

[Peasie]

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



One day at home I heard this man at the gate calling "Shaka. Shaka." Then I heard him say, "Shaka Zulu, yuh deh bout?"

He was calling to Norman who was working on my mother's yard. Norman had scleroderma, a skin-hardening disease which deformed his face.

Lawd, my people yuhsi!

[Suesumba]

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

mi and mi guyanese g/friend would make up west indian style names for our co-workers. i worked for a man who was about 4'9" tall - we called him "baby jesus" because he had a god complex but he wasn't tall enuff to be god.

nosy one we call "overseer"

b*tchy one we call "pepperseed"


anyhow some jamaican ones:

doggy weathers (dunno)

horsemout;
noseman

[mangoskin]

Re: Discriptive Jamaican Nicknames and term......do you know

nevah mine-I personally see nothing wrong with switching up (if you ever felt like it)-many Jamaicans agree thats why they twang up, switch up citizenship etc
I mean a person doesn't even need to be chinese to cook up some great chinese food, it's 2011.
Do your thing!

[mountaingal]

Re: Discriptive Jamaican Nicknames and term......do you know

to what i recall, quashie meant unsophisticated, u dont have any of the normal graces.