Tropical Rythms's definitions

Green

From the colour green which is usually associated with putrid stuff, bad breath or rotten food in the Caribbean.

Sobaco in Latin America

Why yah smell so green? Go bathe yourself man!

You arm's green like lime bredda. Go buy q roll-on (deoderant) man!

by Tropical Rythms December 7, 2021

Pill

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.

by Tropical Rythms December 13, 2021

A + verb (no gerund)

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.

by Tropical Rythms December 9, 2021

Banger phone

Jamaican slang
A cheap phone that cannot access the internet. Or use apps like whatsapp etc.

Some say, it's still good to have a banger phone, even if you have a smartphone.

Digicel just released some new bangers 'pon the market.

by Tropical Rythms October 11, 2019

Pretty dunce

Jamaican way of referring to a bimbo, (a pretty girl who lacks intelligence).

When the pretty dunces are not titivating in class, they are out front walking around like divas in their tight-up miniskirts.

by Tropical Rythms August 2, 2020

Inna

Colloquial way of saying in/into in Jamaica.

Possibly Origin in + a

It fell in a bag. It fell inna bag.

The teacher (is) inna the classroom.

How much money you want inna US dollars?
Invest inna you woman.

(I) Me live inna the Bronx.

by Tropical Rythms December 7, 2021

Suck yah mother

Vulgar - very strong curse term in Caribbean cultures.

Go suck yah mother!

Ah fool you take badman for?

by Tropical Rythms December 6, 2021