travel_explore explore, browse, discover

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
Jamaica
Wen yu gwine knock anansi memba di wall
When you try to hurt another be sure you aren't hurting yourself.
proverb
Trinidad & Tobago
west indian cherry
The fruit of a small tree originally from South and Central America. The fruit are green when immature, and turn yellow/red to bright red when mature. The fruit has a tart, sweet flavour and is often eaten raw or used to make drinks.
food
fruit
plant
7 comments
Trinidad & Tobago
wet fowl
Sickly, unhealthly
2 comments
Jamaica
wet sugar
Unrefined sugar that has not been completed separated from the molasses. The sugar retains moisture and a deep brown colour.
food
2 comments
Jamaica
wha
That or What
1 comments
Jamaica
wha de gwaan
What's up? Whats going on? What is happening?
Jamaica
Wha nu kill fatten
That which does not destroy you makes you stronger
proverb
Jamaica
wha sweet nanny goat ago run him belly
That which causes merriment and pleasure now will cause grief and sorrow later.
Bahamas
Wha sweeten yu mouth goin bitter yu tail.
That which causes merriment and pleasure now will cause grief and sorrow later.
proverb
Jamaica
what a prekeh
An expression indicating some combination of shock, surprise or bemusement.
Jamaica
What is joke to bwoy is death to frog.
One person's fun and games may have serious consequences for another.
proverb
Jamaica
whatlef
Leftovers
1 comments
Barbados
whax palax
A violent, savage blow.
2 comments