Irish Potato

Ah tell you ah have it Ah tell you ah have it Ah tell you ah have it Lord, tell you ah have it, yeah Ahh ah ah aye, oh Lord Ahh ah ah aye, yeah ah ah, oh Lord Ah have ah tabanca, carnival tabanca Ah have ah tabanca, real bad tabanca Ah tell you ah tabanca, carnival tabanca Ah have ah tabanca, real bad tabanca

Another name for breadfruit

are Indian and Pakistani fried sweets. It is made by deep-frying batter in a kind of pretzel shape then soaked in syrup.

To bungle or package a group of things together

One of my favourite Jamaican Proverbs goes something like this.... Bull Frog said “what is joke to you is death to me”.

An example would be "yu too brisk"

Offended by this picture.

An extremely tough biscuit

Bright; light complexion

Skylark-good natured horseplay

Local dialect derived from African and various European languages (usually some combination of English, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Dutch)

Its actually bobo possibly derive from the Spanish word for stupid or daft

Wheh you gine - where are you going?

A Disc Jockey. One who selects the music tobe played at an event.

Yinnas bedda stop (You all better stop)

Affectionate term used to address an old woman

Another name for s pregnancy is a swallow water-melon

Bound -constipated

The term may originate from Yoruba, and thus may be linked to the arrival of Nigerian traders in Ghana, according to Aryeetey and Gockel

Nail Polish

offspring of some other race and black

dat ain no tru or dine no tru: that is not true

A practitioner of obeah or black arts.

Boastful, excessively proud

Buck up: hit, crash -- My car ‘buck up’ to duh tree.

Jook: poke, stick -- He jook me in my leg!

gravalicious: greedy -- He gravalicious duh way he take all duh money!

Jam up: crowded, full -- Dat room was jam up!

Wukkin up- a high energy, gyrating dance that could probably get you arrested most places outside the Caribbean

The San Pedritro and Jamaican Tody are two different birds.

Gossip. Idle talk, rumours, or salacious news about the private affairs of others.

A beautiful, virtuous woman possessing or characterized by chastity, purity and morality

kiss teet

To laugh or to smile

Vamp a very unpleasant smell

Gizzada!

Also known as Yellow-back or Yellow-shouldered Finch/Yellow-back Finch

row = argument. social conflict. British origin

called Hassa

understandable only to a few people. coolie ebonics mattie just means friend...mate

snack, designed to be consumed while drinking alcohol, usually meat or meat based

haunted, hanted from British english

Black Banana Bird or Corporal Bird

Gray Kingbird

Shine-eye/Glasseye/Fish-eye/ Long Day Bird or Long Day Hopping Dick

Little Doctorbird

Man o' War Bird

Also known as Sewi-Sewi or White eyed Vireo

In Jamaica we call it killy-killy