mamaguy

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verb To make fun of; to ridicule

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Ari
14 years ago

Interesting. My whole family is from Trinidad and has only ever used this to mean 'sweet-talk'.

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anonymous
14 years ago

It's spelt mamaguile and in Trini it means sweet talk

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Trini2dbone
13 years ago

Sweet talk in an insincere way as a means to an end...<br /> Hence subtle ridicule ... To make a monkey of ...<br /> In other words:<br /> "If yuh not too brite yuh eh go ketch on"

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Bradley
10 years ago

Lol@ "If yuh not too brite yuh eh go ketch on"

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Trinigyalian
7 years ago

It means to bribe or try to flatter someone. So a person would say "Doh mamaguy meh nah". I say it to my American husband all the time lol

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Dominic
7 years ago

@Trinigyalian methinks thou doth protest too much!

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cadosss
4 years ago

i telling my american gyal to stop the mamaguying and she look at me like i crazy