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Jamaican slang
To persuade or convince someone to do something. To trick someone.
Pill yah try fi pill man?
My girl a pill yah give me! You issa wicked piece of gal.
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Me come from upat one place called George Town.
If you go upat the supermarket, you can get 3 fi 190 dollars.
(Jamaican)
Any situation that will result in commotion with a person or take a bad turn quickly.
Hmm right now when Jorgy gets back ah hell and powder house. Look how you damaged the crops in the yard.
Dead with laugh is an equivalent of lol used in Jamaica. Both are equally used to represent laughing in an exaggerated manner.
Abbreviation in text dwl
Not used in speech.
Origin: dying from laughter
Could you tell me a joke from your country?
Sure!
Jamaican teacher to student:
Peter, use the word dandelion in a sentence
Peter: Miss the cheetah is faster dan de lion. Dwl (dead with laugh)
Batty jaw refers to the butt cheeks, arse or buttocks of a person/animal.
Origin from botty (plural botties)
(childish, slang) for bottom.
Clap your batty jaws, them.
You need to wear a better shorts to cover up your batty jaw.
Jamaican
A mild child's way of swearing to avoid the more vulgar bombopussyrasscloth. Usually sung like a song and is often misheard for the vulgar version due to it's tricky rhyming words.
Student: Miss, Eey don't want him 'pon my team. Cho! Bombo, push the grass cart!
Teacher: What did you say?
Student: nothing, miss.
Sense 1:
The Erebid moth (Ascalapha odorata) which is also known as Black Witch, Sorrow moth, and Mourning moth, is called Duppy Bat in Jamaica.
Origin : circa 18th century. From bvb dupe or Akan adÉpe; a ghost or spirit.
The bat is believed to be the spirit of a deceased person in the manifestation of a bat. It is usually not at rest and has returned as a harbinger or to live in its abode among its old family and friends.
Sense 2: a silly person; an idiot
Nuff duppy bats live in the abandoned house.
Last night a duppy bat flew inside the house. The entire place was turned upside down.
Cho! A duppy bat, that. (That is a duppy bat) sense 2.