Tropical Rythms's definitions

Mouta massi

Jamaican (noun)

Anyone who gossips a lot, or always has some fabricated stories to tell.

Origin:

Corrupted version of mouth of a massive size.

You come in like a mouta massi.

You chat too fricking much! You issa real mouta massi.

by Tropical Rythms December 11, 2021

Why chop?

Slang term similar to what's up, what's good ,whagwan? What have you been up to? What's keeping you busy?

Possibly Origin from the culture of scamming in Jamaica.

Scammers are know as choppas and scamming as chopping.

Overlaps with the expression chop chop as in get busy, get the ball moving.

Why chop?

Nothing much enuh ma g, just a burn (smoking) a spliff. You see'it?

by Tropical Rythms December 6, 2021

Kick back

Jamaican slang for relaxing: chilling

Origin :kick back North American to relax, or enjoy oneself.

Kick back-

I'm just home with me baby mother a kickback. Is so me spend my evenings.

by Tropical Rythms December 12, 2021

Yeah, man!

Affirmation/agreement to something.

No, it's not mon but man. Yeah, man!
Yeah, man! You can link me later.

by Tropical Rythms December 9, 2021

Kin pupalick

Jamaican

Non-standard rural dialect

Evolved from the sense of being smacked by one's dad to the point where one falls over.

To somersault or fall over

Origin from keel over, kin over in Jamaican Patois + from papa's lick or smack

The lil gal kin pupalick off of the wall and hurt her knee.

by Tropical Rythms March 5, 2022

Skin out

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.

by Tropical Rythms March 5, 2022

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