mouti-mouti n.
(W.I.) a gossip, a chatterbox; also as adj.
Jamaica Dialect Verses 3: Yuh know mouty-mouty Dinah? [...] She go tell Tayma pickney fadah, / Miss Imo nephew you know? | ‘Street Crier’ in||
AS XXXII:1 51: mouty-mouty, mouthy, impertinent. | ‘Iteration as a Word-forming Device in Jamaican Folk Speech’ in||
(ref. to 1940s) Jamaica Labrish 223: mouty-mouty. given to gossip. | ||
Jam. Creole Lang. Course 143: Him stare eena har face an seh, ‘Thou art de mouti-mouti!’. |