Antigua & Barbuda
Aruba
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Belize
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Grenada
Guyana
Jamaica
Trinidad & Tobago
St. Vincent
US Virgin Islands
noun
Idiot or simpleton; A stupid person
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Trinidad & Tobago
noun
An individual whose partner commits infidelity and does not hide the signs. The individual, however, does not leave the relationship but instead tries to please their partner, who in turn ridicules him/her.
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Grenada
US Virgin Islands
noun
A man who has become foolish because of excessive love for a woman.
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17 comments
s
s
16 years ago

A cunumunu is no ordinary idiot, simpleton, or stupid person, but an individual who is getting "butt","horned", and is aware of it, because his or her partner does not  conceal obvious signs of infidelity. The cunumunu does not react like most and break with the partner, but takes increasing amounts of ridicule from the mate, often going out of the way to please that person, and seems powerless to extract him/herself from the relationship.

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
16 years ago

Interesting defintion, I haven't heard it used that way before. What countries uses it in that context?

s
s
16 years ago

The meanings of words seem to evolve and change with the passage of time, but this was the accepted definition in Trinidad up to the late 1960's. The Mighty Sparrow sang about a cunumunu in, I think the name of the song was 'Take yuh bundle and leave and go', early 60's.

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h
16 years ago

Meanings do change, so both can be correct at the same time.

Barbados
Barbados
JSS1
8 years ago

Isn't it cunnamunu?

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
Bobzyoy
8 years ago

"A man who has become foolish because of excessive love for a woman" (bazodee)

US Virgin Islands
US Virgin Islands
Eloi
8 years ago

Crazy in love

US Virgin Islands
US Virgin Islands
Chaz
8 years ago

I see you

US Virgin Islands
US Virgin Islands
6 years ago

we use it a lot in the St.Thomas V.I however, we used it to reference a stupid person, an ediot, someone who's not using good sense.

Guyana
Guyana
Gt gal
4 years ago

Cunumunu means yuh stupid/pagali/idiot in Guyana

Jamaica
Jamaica
Tricia
3 years ago

A straight up idiot. Fool fool

Jamaica
Jamaica
Kesha
2 years ago

Eediat. Allow people to use them and treat them as fools.

US Virgin Islands
US Virgin Islands
🇻🇮 Daphne
2 years ago

Someone who not just stupid, but beyond naive within their stupidity.

British Virgin Isles.
British Virgin Isles.
Chunumunu
last year

Nanajajjs

St. Vincent
St. Vincent
last year

In vincentinian creole it is "chupit" i think

Antigua & Barbuda
Antigua & Barbuda
10 months ago

Anitgua & Barbuda also use eediat/chupid

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liz
5 months ago

It means stupid or a fool. I is also found in Nigeria as mumu.