A

• above - to be next to; to the right of

• ackee - fruit, hard green skin, orange flesh when ripe [known as guinep in other Caribbean islands]

• afta - after

• add-in - put in a little bit more

• aight - alright; okay

• again - now

• all de talk - in any case

• all-two - both

• all-two a wunna - both persons in the group

• all-a-wanna - everyone in the group

• auntieman - an offensive term for an effeminate or homosexual male

• asked out - to invite someone out

• ass - an insult; referring to one's buttocks; or the animal

• at'all / at'tall - no-how, no-way.

• away - overseas; abroad

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B

• bad behave - to be poorly behaved

• bad feels - any faint feeling

• bad-bad-bad-bad-  "a real lot" (eg. "Look, da other team get beat, bad-bad-bad-bad-bad")

• back-back - to go backwards

• backyard - enclosed land at the back of a house

• bachannal - commotion, loud partying 

• backchat / backtalk - a disrespectful reply (usually in the case of a child to a parent.)

• back stab - to talk about a friend negatively

• balampalampam - very large buttocks

• bariffle - a whole lot eg. (dah's a bariffle a homwuhk )

• bassa-bassa - a fight or uproar

• bashy - to be intriguing

• bashment - to be intriguing / a party

• bat - small moth

• bawl-like-a-cow - crying, yelling for help

• bawl-out - curse someone

• bazodee - crazy (acting)

• bay rum - a lotion

• below - to the left of... (eg. "The house below there-")

• belly - to have diarrhea

• bare - a lot of...

• before-time - once upon a time; formerly

• behind God's back - a distant rural place way-out in the countryside

• big-up - kudos, accolades, salutation

• big-rock - a stone, just the right size and weight for throwing at someone; or to stand up someone

• birdspeed - to move very fast

• Bim - a nickname for Barbados (short for Bimshire); it was also a soft-drink historically made in Barbados

• biscuit - knee cap

• bite - to itch (eg. "my foot biting me")

• black hat - person behaving unseemly and don't care

• blaklead - a pencil

• blasted - "damn"

• blam - to shut suddenly

• blista - to curse out

• blista bline - to curse out

• block wid - to confront boldly with (eg. don mek me block wid yuh)

• body / bozzi - a person (e.g. not me bozzi)

• boar tru - to push through ("Bore through")

• bonie - very slim body (boney)

• bossman - an admired friend; a salutation ("hey buddy")

• bougeley - real ugly person

• boun - to become constipated

• boxy / botsi - the buttocks

• but - to bounce off or knock into something, or hit someone with your head. (ex. a "head-but")

• brass - trumpets and other horns in a song

• bram - a small dancing party

• bration - a rendezvous with a date

• breeze - go somewhere quickly

• breed-off - to become pregnant

• brekfives - to shake hands

• brek-up - to fall or to feel really tired after a party or exercise

• broughtupsy - proper upbringing, manners or class

• bruggadown / brugga-lax / brax-lax - the sound of a fall, or something hitting something else hard

• bubbi - a breast

• bubble up de gap - drive up the street

• bubble a pot - to cook good tasting food

• buck-pot - a cast iron pot used for cooking

• buckra - a Caucasian [of African origin, mbakara]

• buckra-johnny -  a poor caucasian

• bumpa / bumsi - the buttocks

• bung-navel - protuberant navel

• buttup-pon - to meet by chance; to have met by chance

• bull - to engage (as a male) in sexual intercourse with a fellow male

• bulla - the highest offensive name for a homosexual male

• bullaman - a homosexual male

• burst - to over do, or to hit hard, or to be over crowded

• buse - to use abusive language

• bush-tea - a tea made of plants and herbs

• buss mout - to hit someone on the mouth or to be hit in the mouth

• busylickum - a busy body

• buy-ice, and fry it - a waste of money

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C

• cah / caa - to carry eg. "Cah da long fuh ma"

• carry 'way - take / taking

• catsprattle - to destroy; to fall very harshly

• caw - wow! [shortened version to the vulgar]

• caw blen - wow! [vulgar]

• cat-boil - a sty on the eyelid

• cha! - wow! / yes! (from Jamaica)

• chat-up - to flatter

• cheese-on-bread - an expression or exclamation

• chip - slowly marching down the street in-time- to the rhythm of the music playing.

• choke-off - to shut off.

• chop-lass - see collins

• choppa - a machete

• choppy - to be bumpy

• chossel - girlfriend / boyfriend

• chune - a song

• cock - referring to a male's penis

• cock-rat - a whore

• cock-back - shaking ones' buttocks while dancing

• cock-up - to relax with one's limbs spread

• collins - see cutlass

• colours-fighting - the colour clothes someone is wearing either clash, are ugly, or don't go together.

• cook-up - mix everything together.

• cool-out - to relax

• coolie - door-to-door salesman of East-Indian decent

• come forward - to come back (eg. I gine and come forward)

• come'a - come here to me!

• come back - to return [to return home]

• come-ya - someone who is new to the area [offensive]

• common - to be low class

• crab-mash - to iron ones clothes like they don't know what they're doing.

• crappo - frog/toad

• cross over - to become pregnant

• cuh-dear - an exclamation (e.g cuh dear, you ent know no better than that)

• cunna-mah-nou - a fool

• cunt - noun [Vulgar] e.g. "You, ya cunt!"

• cuff - to punch; a punch

• cuffin - a somersault

• cus - to insult, swear or use bad words

• cutter -  a sandwich

• cutlass - a machete

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D

• da - that

• daa fuh yuh - that's what you get

• daa gon' do fuh yuh - that will bring about serious consequences

• de-belly - diarrhea

• dead house - mortuary

• dearheart - sweetheart

• dem - them

• dicky - male genital

• dispatch - to serve a customer in a shop

• dingolay - dance

• disgusting - person having their own way

• do-fa-do - A saying ("What goes around, comes around" / tit-for-tat)

• do-fa-do, ain't no obeah - ("Doing bad things to others, and then having it happen to you is not necessarily witchcraft")

• dooflicky - a celebration

• doggerts - the male genitals .

• dog dead - an expression of finality (eg "Ef he find out you lying boy, de dog dead)

• dottish - (pronounced: "doh'tish") stupid / foolish

• down de bottom - over on the other end ("down de' bottom of Saint Michael.")

• down de line - straight down the road

• drawing-up - Sit close next to... ("drawing-up along side")

• dress-up - wearing your best clothes

• drop-down - to faint; pass out; or flop down onto something

• dropsy - getting tired

• dumpsy / duncey - to be stupid

• duppy - a ghost or spirit

• dust bin - waste bin

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E

• eat-off - consume a lot of food, or the food is gone.

• ecky-becky - a poor Caucasian [a *very* offensive term]

• effin - a variant of "if"

• enuff - to have had enough of something

• eat - to perform oral sex

• evah - every

• evahsince - a long time ago (from five minutes to five years ago)

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F

• fa / fah / fuh - for

• fall away - lose weight rapidly

• fall out - stop being friends

• faddah - father

• faddah-head - (an insult)

• fah real - to agree with something said

• fah right now - The point is

• fart friten - Afraid of everything, easily scared

• fambli - a family

• face-basin - sink

• fack - fuck -vulgar

• farepika - a prostitute

• fete - a party

• fingasmit - a thief

• finny - handicapped; physically challenged

• firegalash - disorderly woman always ''cussing out ''

• fizzy - any kind of soda-tonic

• flam  - a girl that one flirts with; to flirt

• flim - film / a movie

• fling dah chune - play that song

• flipping - f*cking

• flounce-up - usually means to stamp one's foot in a display; showing a readiness to fight.

• follow-pattern / follow-fashion - a copycat

• foop - to engage in sexual intercourse [vulgar]

• foofooloo - one who is love sick

• fortyleg - centipede

• fowl-cock - a chicken

• fret - to bother

• frig-em-up - to mess up someone

• friggin - adverb (similar to f*cking) [Vulgar]

• from-starving, to lavin - a long time

• front-house - the living room.

• frowsy - to be smelly or musty

• fuh - "for" as in for life!

• fuh-lie?- "you are telling a lie

• fuh-true? - "for truth?"; for real; absolutely no exaggeration.

• funny-up - weird looking

• fuzz-out- to be exhausted from strenuous activity

• fussy - very particular

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G

• gaa / gah - have to ... eg. "Leh we gah dey" (Let us go over there)

• gap - a street or road

• gate-door - the entrance to the house

• gettin-on - misbehaving, treat bad.

• gear - used to describe expensive name brand clothing

• georgy-bundle - a bundle made up of various oddments

• gohblainyuh - To curse someone (an exclamation)

• gift hamper - collection of goodies

• gipsy - overly inquisitive

• gimme - to give something

• gine - to be going / going to..

• gittima - an item given to someone

• go-across - go over by / go over to... (ex. "I gine go across by JBs)

• godhorse - a stick insect

• go-so / guh so - move that way...

• go-round - "move over".

• gorillafunt - big and ugly

• government juice - water

• goathead - an idiot

• golliwog:- an insulting term, given to a loud un mannerly person

• gone-cross - to become pregnant

• great-kind-kubba - a bigshot

• gree - to speak on friendly terms

• gree-back - to re-speak on friendly terms

• groun - a garden / a field ex: she in de groun

• gully-boar - one who has no class

• gussypa - a homosexual male

• gutaperk - a sling shot.

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H

• hag - to bother

• hagga-maid - over worked in cleaning

• haffi - have to

• ham - a homosexual male

• hard-ears - you don't listen

• hard-head / hard'n - you don't learn anything

• hard mout cow - old (stupid) woman

• hard mout goat - old (stupid) man

• has-in - contains

• hay - here

• hell'em - to over work something

• highfalutant - person who thinks they are better than you

• hobby class - to be free of cost

• hold-down - stoop down low

• hold 'em joe - stay in control; wait a minute

• horn / horning - cheat on a lover

• horsestylish - arrogant, unmannerly behavior

• humbug - to bother or annoy

• humfree - to be free of cost

• hurting up my head - forced to think about something confusing far too much.

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I

• in-true / in-troot - "in truth?" for real; no exaggeration

• in-a-short-short - just a moment, in a little while.

• in-two-twos - it happend really-- fast.

• irie - all right, everything is cool (from Jamaica)

• igrant - ignorant

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J

• Jah - God

• jackspaniard - a wild bee

• jar - to stare at, notice, realise, vise (see 'vise') or to ponder while looking,

• Jauntin - to be going fast ; to be in a hurry

• jenkins - mental hospital

• jill - one pint of something

• jilt - to treat (esp. a woman) unfavorably

• jipsy - to be inquisitive

• jobby - faeces / to stool

• joe'heath mare - ran / running very fast

• johnny - an idiot

• Ju-C - ("Juicey") a soft-drink historically made in Barbados

• juck - to poke, stab or push

• jump-up - to dance (Usually stated "Take a Jump-up")

• just-now - a few moments ago

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K

• katspraddle - to fall hard/make fall hard

• kafuffle - to confuse; commotion

• kawblema! - oh my goodness! / God blind me if it ent true

• keep quiet - be silent, stop moving around and sit still, or stop whatever you're doing because it's annoying.

• kernel - an enlarged gland in the groin [also waxing kernal]

• kimboes - hips

• koshflicket - damn!

• kunou-monou  - a so-called bewitching powder dropped into soups or stews.

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L

• leff - leave / the direction known as left.

• landship - a friendly society who frequently holds parades, with its members dressed in naval uniform

• lemme - let me

• leff he - to leave someone alone / do not trouble him

• less-noise - be silent.

• let loan - to leave alone

• liard - a liar

• lick - hit

• lick-down / lick-dung - hit by a car...

• lick-mout - "Talk too much"

• lickrish - to be greedy for food

• lime / liming - to hang-out, chill, or relax somewhere with others.

• like peas-  lots of something / being together [like peas in a pod]

• lil bit - for a little while

• lillit tongue - the clitoris

• line - a clothes line

• lining cold - a cold caught by a mother just after child birth

• long-side - next to

• lose out - some scheme did not work out as planed

• load - denotes a great deal of something

• lookuh - look

• lower-down that - to turn down, usually the volume or the fire on the stove.

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M

• m??/font> - relatively outdated term used for mum or grandma

• mamaguy -  to fool someone

• merr / murr - mother

• yuh murr / yuh mahda- (An insult) like saying "your mother!" 

• mashup - to break, deconstruct or destroy.

• malicious - mischievous

• main guard - central police station

• make out - to fare (eg how do you make out in the test)

• marl hole - a quarry

• maulsprigging - a severe lashing

• mek sport- to joke/kid around / (you) mekin' sport

• melts - a delicacy, the roe or spawn of the male fish

• mawfrie - a person who has both female and male parts, a hermaphrodite

• mek - make

• meeting turn - a historical form of "banking" that Barbadians did. It works like an office lottery that rotates to a different person every week. [also known as su-su]

• mile tree - a casuarina tree

• mobba-ton - a really excessive amount

• mock stick - a figure of ridicule

• moses - a small row boat / dinghy

• muh - me

• malicious - to be inquisitive/nosy

• mofuhme - Need more for myself

• monkey -  a clay jug, used to keep water cool, before refrigerators

• moss - sea weed

• mout - mouth

• mugen - foolish person

• muster - to save (usually money)

• mussie/mussy - maybe, perhaps or probably

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