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Jamaica
washbelly
The last child for a woman.
person
Trinidad & Tobago
washer woman
The Pied Water Tyrant is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It breeds in tropical South America from Panama and Trinidad south to Bolivia and Argentina. The Pied Water Tyrant is 13.5 cm long and weighs 13g. Adults are mainly white with a black nape, back, wings and tail. Sexes are similar, although the female may have some brown mixed with the black, and immature birds are brown where the adult is black.
animal
bird
Guyana
washing butter
To beat butter with a spoon in a large water filled container in order to remove salt and make it suitable for use in recipes like black cake.
food
Jamaica
washout
A substance ingested as a purgative or for detoxification.
Jamaica
washover
Fake gold
Trinidad & Tobago
washy kong
Sneakers or running shoes
1 comments
Belize
Jamaica
Trinidad & Tobago
wassy
Full of spirit and fight
4 comments
Trinidad & Tobago
waste down
Useless. No good
Jamaica
waste man
A useless person. One who is a "waste of space".
Jamaica
wat a stress
An expression indicating some combination of shock, surprise or bemusement.
Belize
wata daag
River otter
animal
2 comments
Trinidad & Tobago
watchekongs
Canvas soled tennis shoes.
1 comments
Jamaica
watchnight
A late night church service to usher in the new year.
Jamaica
water coconut
A young coconut where the flesh has not completely hardened.
food
1 comments
Bahamas
water head
Hydrocephalic
derogatory
Guyana
water lily
The Victoria Regia water lily. The national flower of Guyana.
national symbol
plant
3 comments
Trinidad & Tobago
water more than flour
Things are bad hard luck hard times
3 comments
Trinidad & Tobago
waterman
The Purple Gallinule is a "swamp hen" in the rail family Rallidae. This is a medium-sized rail. The adult Purple gallinule has big yellow feet, purple-blue plumage with a green back, and red and yellow bill. It has a pale blue forehead shield and white undertail.
animal
bird
Jamaica
wattle and daub
A style of building construction where walls are made from slats of bamboo or other wood and coated with mud or clay.
Trinidad & Tobago
St. Vincent
wax apple
A light coloured cultivar of the Malay apple
food
fruit
8 comments
Belize
waya
Ovoid green fruit that grows in bunches on trees up to 30m high. The fruit typically ripen during the summer. The fruit is related to the lychee and have tight, thin but rigid skins. Inside the skin is the tart, tangy, or sweet pulp of the fruit covering a large seed. The pulp is usually cream or orange coloured.
fruit
food
plant
5 comments
Jamaica
We don't play hockey, we eat ackee
A funny bit of wordplay by deejay Shabba Ranks that depends on the overlapping pronunciations of 'ackee' (the food) and 'hockey' (the game). This pronunciation overlap is made stronger (and funnier) with the additional context that some Jamaicans have a tendency to add an intrusive 'h' at the start of words beginning with vowels and some Jamaicans have a tendency to drop the leading 'h' in words.
proverb
2 comments
Jamaica
weak laka rat
To be as weak as a rat or mouse. To be extremely weak.
US Virgin Islands
weed
Marijuana; Cannabis
plant
Jamaica
Trinidad & Tobago
weedhead
One who is addicted to marijuana.
person
Belize
weh di go aan
What's up? Whats going on? What is happening?
Haiti
welks
A small aquatic snail often found attached to rocks in rivers. They are edible and sometimes used as an ingredient in soups
food
animal
Jamaica
well
Very. In the fullest sense.
1 comments
Belize
Wen da tree ben yu cyaa straighten it
Train children properly before it's too late
proverb
Belize
Wen man dead grass grow da i door mout
The dead are soon forgotten.
proverb