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In the Jamaican dialect, mix up refers to a mélange or mixture of rumours that's usually defamatory or based on gossip. A blender is often used in the Caribbean to make blended drinks or home-made beverages by mixing stuff together. The expression alludes to rumours blending together in a mess as if a blender were at work.
Bare mix up and blender we talk 'bout over yah.
Jamaican
Separating of a fleshy part of the body usually the legs, lips of the vagina etc when exertion of force is applied; opening up of something
Also skin - to smile, bearing your teeth
Skin out my pum pum.
Skin out your legs.
You skin your teeth too much for a young woman.
Irish potato in the Jamaican dialect refers to the solanum tuberosum, a cultivated potato known for its starchy tubers.
Although Irish potatoes are not Irish â they are white potatoes from South America which are forever associated with an infamous potato-disease famine in Ireland.
Yes, girl. Irish potatoes taste wicked in your gravy!
The price of Irish potatoes has skyrocketed. down town.
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Whole heap of/a - a lot of something, a ton of something
Term :Jamaican
Whole heap of people think aliens are living among us.
Jamaican dialect usage
Origin
Old English pronoun + verb.
Eg.
We a-walking to school. Reminiscent of Shakespeare's stylistic poetry.
(Extract from an Appalachian English song)
On the Seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me. Seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying.
(Extract from a nursery rhyme ca. 1905)
I saw the ship a-sailing, a-sailing on the sea, and oh!It was all laden, with pretty things for thee!
Influenced modern day Patois slang.
This usage fell into disuse in modern English and is now regional or dialectal. A similarity in usage can be noted in the European Portuguese language structure.
A + verb (no gerund)
We a walk to school.
She a talk to all of them.
When you a leave let me know.
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Mumma Lashy (Mamma beater)
A Jamaican children's game where one child plays the role of an angry mother or granny trying to catch and spank the other children whose role is to escape and avoid getting lashed.
(Offensive) refers to a woman/effeminate man that complains a lot, like a typical angry granny would.
Possible Origin- A women's name Lashy: A female that complains/argues a lot
Also Lash: A wip used to spank a person
Mumma Lashy a-coming and we're not running fast enough.
Babes, Lately, you've become a mumma Lashy. I swear yo!
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Cod - a small, pouch or bag (rare) the scrotum (also in plural).
In Jamaican this refers to the balls/scrotums of a cow.
Some like the good old cow cod soup and some don't.