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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
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Baggy

A type of loose fitting underwear just as the word suggests.

Shortening of a baggy underwear or a granny panty; any underwear.

Usage rural Jamaica
She, she! She have the gun inna baggy. Mind she shoots you with it.
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Duppy bat

Sense 1:

The Erebid moth (Ascalapha odorata) which is also known as Black Witch, Sorrow moth, and Mourning moth, is called Duppy Bat in Jamaica.
Origin : circa 18th century. From bvb dupe or Akan adɔpe; a ghost or spirit.

The bat is believed to be the spirit of a deceased person in the manifestation of a bat. It is usually not at rest and has returned as a harbinger or to live in its abode among its old family and friends.

Sense 2: a silly person; an idiot
Nuff duppy bats live in the abandoned house.

Last night a duppy bat flew inside the house. The entire place was turned upside down.

Cho! A duppy bat, that. (That is a duppy bat) sense 2.
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Irish Potato

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 – 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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Upat

Me come from upat one place called George Town.
If you go upat the supermarket, you can get 3 fi 190 dollars.
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Yah

Yah - vocalization of the word here in Jamaican dialect (Patois). Seen as vulgar by some.

The softer version is here/'ere.
Come yah - come here
Hear yah- hear this

Look yah - look here

See yah- see here

Watch yah - watch here

More from yah -move from here

Yah so - right here (like that)

There so - right there (like that)
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Mix up and blender

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.
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