rygin adj.
1. angry.
![]() | cited in Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980). | |
![]() | (con. 1948) Catch a Fire 102: Vincent ‘Ivanhoe’ Martin, the [...] Kingston gunman who came to be known as ‘Rhyging,’ patois for ‘angry,’ ‘wild,’ ‘foolhardy.’. |
2. vigorous, lively, spirited.
![]() | Late Emancipation of Jerry Stover (1982) 179: But Lawd King, wha’ a way the ganja ripe’ up in you’ back an’ make you rygin’. | |
![]() | (con. 1950s) Harder They Come 20: Rhygin? [...] It wasn’t a word you heard so much any more, only from old people. Raging strong, but foolish too, overconfident, not knowing where the limits were. |
3. first-class, excellent.
![]() | Jamaica (1983) 2: Member how that same time / was a rygin time, Manny? | ‘Joshua and Emmanuel’|
![]() | When Me Was A Boy 118: Jamaican musicians of those days used to learn how to play the music of the day by listenin’ to them records. An wi did have some rygin musicians them time. |