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More Jamaican Words and Phrases

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beenie - little,small
degeh degeh - only (used to place emphasis)
one degeh degeh apple - only one apple
jooby - juvenile; youngster
eye-gle jooby - idle youngster
Jancrow/Jancroh - a bird that scavenges
skettel - a morally loose woman
mantel - a morally loose man
bruk eem dux - to end a dry spell; to make a comeback; to score a point
eem bruk eem dux- he ended his dry spell, he scored a point etc
eem lik eem fi six - a term related to Cricket (sport) and hardly used, meaning he took advantage of him
check seh - I thought
mi check seh yuh seh - I thought you said
mi check seh eem nay guh - I thought he didn't go
nuh check fi - not into
shi nuh check fi - she is not into
shi nuh check fi dat - she is not into that
shi nuh check fi eem nuh more - she's not into him anymore
dem yute - those youths
speng - gangster
dem man deh a speng - those men are gansters
let off - to give
let off sinting nuh - give me something why don't you
let off suppon - give me something
aughtical - naturally grown from the earth
ah seh one - number one; hot; the latest etc..
dem crep deh a seh one - those sneakers are hot (look good)
crep - sneakers
kiyawd - card
draw kiyawd- to try to pull a fast one; to try to be tricky
man a draw kiyard- that man is trying to be a slickster (trickster)
dibby dibby - insignificant, not important
dem a dibby dibby- they are insignificant
flex - to behave
watch ow yuh flex - watch how you behave, be careful of your actions
screw face - to give thug looks; to stare at looking serious
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