Jamaican expression
From (since) whappy killed Phillup.
From names of actually people.
Whappy + Phillup or Phillip.
Possibly origins -According to the Gleaner, in
June 1951 a man name Aston Jolley aka Whappie
King attacked and robbed two people. One of them died, but none of the victim’s names was Phillip. Instead, the news article at the
time mentioned “Wappy
King fillip” and this ended up being switched to “Wappy kill Phillup” over
time. If that is the origins of the story then that would be truly disappointing and anti-climatic.
There is another theory involving a
murder between two brothers from Portland called William(nickname Wappy) and Phillip. This happened in the 1940s and was a real headline grabber, mainly because similar to now Portland did not have alot of murders. This sounds far more realistic than the Aston Jolly case as I think Jamaicans are far too creative to build such a timeless saying off “Wappy
King Fillip”. Gleaner Story
Used to exaggerate the number of years something has been taking place for;
A very long
time
