jamette n.
1. a prostitute.
Bel Fanto 50: Harlot, whore, prostitute, jezebel, jamette That is what you know bout woman. | ||
Race and Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago 471: The ACDC-DLP was dismissed as a ‘jamette (prostitute) association’. | ||
Poems of Tebellion n.p.: They name her names: had seed slut whore jamette solicitor of passengers. | ||
Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage. |
2. a woman widely recognized to be promiscuous; also attrib.
Carnival in Trinidad 49: Jamette behaviour was thus linked by these social aristocrats as anything from prostitution, rum-drinking to dancing in the streets. | ||
Carnival, Canboulay and Calypso 123: The jamettes were expressing ‘solidarity without authority’. They represented revolt, obscenity (the flouting of taboos), fearlessness, and rejection. | ||
Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales 173: There she was posing like a jamette up against the Cadillac on Tanzania’s side! | ||
Music from Behind the Bridge 103: The term jamette may refer [...] specifically to underclass women whose ostentatious behavior in carnival drew moral disapproval from ‘respectable’ people. |
3. a woman’s breast.
Carnival 162: Shay-lee squeezed her own breasts [...] winking at me, ‘Perfectly decent jamettes!’. |