Interesting. My whole family is from Trinidad and has only ever used this to mean 'sweet-talk'.

It's spelt mamaguile and in Trini it means sweet talk

Sweet talk in an insincere way as a means to an end...<br /> Hence subtle ridicule ... To make a monkey of ...<br /> In other words:<br /> "If yuh not too brite yuh eh go ketch on"

Lol@ "If yuh not too brite yuh eh go ketch on"

It means to bribe or try to flatter someone. So a person would say "Doh mamaguy meh nah". I say it to my American husband all the time lol

@Trinigyalian methinks thou doth protest too much!

i telling my american gyal to stop the mamaguying and she look at me like i crazy

mamaguy

7 comments