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!
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Box

Box - verb

Short form of the expression to box someone's ears etc.

Box - noun

In Jamaica a box can be given anywhere on the face. It's not just limited to the ears.
Might haffi box out your teeth yah know my girl.

He gave me a ratid box on my jaw.
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Rockstone

Jamaican

Rock especially when used as a coarse building stone.
Rockstone was my pillow back in the days when I used to live in the countryside.
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Boots

Jamaican slang for condom.

(Only used in plural only) -boots

Origin from boots : Heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.

The third leg of a man is often referred to as his penis and it also has its own boots (a condom).
As a man, you have fi always keep a box of boots in your car
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Hell and powder house

(Jamaican)
Any situation that will result in commotion with a person or take a bad turn quickly.
Hmm right now when Jorgy gets back ah hell and powder house. Look how you damaged the crops in the yard.
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Meagre

Meagre in Jamaican dialect means having little flesh, thin, slim.

In use since

1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 1, 1843, William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer (notes), Charles Symmons (life), The Dramatic Works and Poems, Volume 2, page 462,
… meagre were his looks; / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:
Also used in British and Candadian dialects but rare.

Pronounced mahga in the Caribbean.
Gal, you meagre like a broom stick.

Look pon you too how yah meagre and tough!
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From my eyes deh at me knees

From me eyes deh at me knees means since someone was a kid. Literally since their eyes were at their knees.
I've been hearing about that old man from my eyes deh at me knees. This expression paints the picture of how you have grown a lot, comparing the height you were as a kid to how you are now.
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