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Jamaica
george william gordon
George William Gordon, (1820-1865) was a Jamaican businessman and politician who was a leading critic of the policies of then Governor of Jamaica, Edward Eyre. On Eyre's orders, he was executed after the Morant Bay rebellion. Gordon's execution created huge controversy in Britain, and several attempts were made to charge Eyre with murder. On the centenary of his death, Gordon was proclaimed a National Hero of Jamaica.
national symbol
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Jamaica
ginnal
A trickster; A con man. One who is untrustworthy and unreliable.
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Jamaica
granny nanny
Nanny (c. 1686 - 1733), Jamaican National Hero, was a runaway slave, founder of Nanny Town, and well-known leader of the Jamaican Maroons during the eighteenth century. Born a member of the Ashanti tribe in Ghana, she was brought to Jamaica as a slave along with other family members. She and her brothers Accompong, Cudjoe, Johnny, and Quaco subsequently escaped, are known for their fierce organised resistance to the British.
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Belize
Jamaica
St. Vincent
gyal
A girl or woman
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Barbados
Belize
Jamaica
gyalis
A man who obsessively seduces and deceives women. A promiscuous heterosexual male.
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sexual
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Jamaica
higgler
A marketplace or street vendor
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Turks & Caicos
Trinidad & Tobago
horna man
A man who makes a cuckold of another man. One who has an affair with another man's woman.
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St. Vincent
jaycan
A Jamaican. A native of the island nation of Jamaica.
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US Virgin Islands
jaygan
A Jamaican. A native of the island nation of Jamaica.
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Bahamas
jitney
A promiscuous woman.
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Barbados
Belize
Jamaica
joe grine
A man who makes a cuckold of another man. One who has an affair with another man's woman.
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Grenada
keeper
A common law wife.
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Belize
kerob
Derogatory term for Garifuna people.
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Jamaica
kinaki
Idiot or simpleton; A stupid person
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Jamaica
labba mout
One who talks a lot or too much
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Jamaica
St. Kitts & Nevis
leggo beas
One who acts wild, rambunctious or unruly like a an animal (beast) recently let go from confinement
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Grenada
Jamaica
St. Lucia
leggobeast
A promiscuous woman
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Belize
Jamaica
liad
A liar. One who is prone to falsehood and fabrication.
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1 comments
Jamaica
logga head
Idiot or simpleton; A stupid person
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Bermuda
longtail
Young, unattached female tourists.
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Guyana
Trinidad & Tobago
mammy
Mother's brother's wife
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family
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Guyana
Trinidad & Tobago
mamoo
Mother's brother
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family
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Jamaica
marcus garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He founded the Black Star Line, part of the Back-to-Africa movement, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.
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Jamaica
matey
The 'other woman' in a cheating or adulterous relationship
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Jamaica
mattress
A promiscuous woman.
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Jamaica
Trinidad & Tobago
US Virgin Islands
mi
Me; First person singular
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Jamaica
miss chin
Generic term for used to refer to women who appear to be of East Asian ancestry
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derogatory
Jamaica
miss lee
Generic term for used to refer to women who appear to be of East Asian ancestry
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Jamaica
miss lou
Louise Bennet Coverley or Miss Lou, OM, OJ, MBE (7 September 1919 - 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator. Writing and performing her poems in what was known as Jamaican Patois or Creole, she was instrumental in having this "dialect" of the people given literary recognition in its own right ("nation language"), located at the heart of the Jamaican poetic tradition, and influencing many other poets
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Jamaica
missa chin
Generic term used to refer to men who appear to be of East Asian ancestry.
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derogatory