Zingay - obeah spell

Toute bagaille la (toot-bag-eye-lah) - everything

Badjohn-  a bully

Babash - illegal rum

Country bookie - a person unschooled in city ways

Mamaguy - to patronise someone

Pappyshow - to make a spectacle of someone for the amusement of others.

Pot hound - a mongrel

Tabanca - lovesickness

Brava-dashay - to show off

Happyman - a simpleton

Comess - confusion

Lambase - to verbally or physically attack someone

Lime - to relax with friends

Obzokee - unsightly or cumbersome thing

Planass - to hit someone with the flat side of a cutlass or machete.

So-foot - a sick leg

Wapia - blemishes near the mouth, or cold sores

Wabbap - a very fat or voluptous woman

Warap- watery food

Big bush - forest

Tankalanka - "Oh dear!"

Hasikara - trouble

Chut! - expression of annoyance

Boboloops - a fat person

Tot-tots - breasts

Bragadang - an onomatopoeia describing the sound of anything that has fallen

Bram - a big party

Cacada - a little bit of money

Chinks - to be stingy with something

Cunumunu - a stupid person

Buss - to describe someone who smells bad, or when something is destroyed, or when someone is ugly

Drivee - to be wayward

Cross - an unreliable person


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