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A soft vegetable mash of okra, pumpkin, eggplant, and dasheen bush or callaloo
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trapong
The tarpon. A species of fish popular for eating and sport fishing.
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run come
To come running or come quickly
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sea mammy
A mermaid.
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gash
To spark or flash.
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bear an bear
To exercise restraint. To be long suffering. To endure.
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kousoumay
to stew, settle or let sit
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fly follow shit
Terrible people are attracted to terrible people (or terrible things)
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gun tune
Dancehall music focused on the glorification of gun violence.
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choppa
A sub genre of dancehall that focuses on, and glorifies crime and illegal activity.
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all crab fine dey hole
Everyone finds their place in life.
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pepper light
Decorative lights used at Christmas time and named for their resemblance to bird peppers
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bull cow
A male cow.
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bex money
Emergency money carried when you go out in case you and your date fall out.
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mischief come by di poun an go by di ounce
People can stir up a lot of trouble with very little action or very few words
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willful waste bring woeful want
You will often find yourself needing the things you wasted
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new broom sweep clean, ole broom know corna
The young have energy and enthusiasm but the old have experience and wisdom
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trouble de a bush, anancy bring it come a yaad
Don't be like Anancy. Leave things that don't concern you alone.
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yu spread yu bed haad, yu affi liddung pan it hard
You have to live with the consequences of your actions
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di more yu look di less yu si
The more you learn the more you realise you don't know
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