bungo, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bungo adj.

(W.I., Jam.) crude, boorish, ignorant.

1907		W. Jekyll Jam. Song and Story 12: His speech is Bungo talk.
1912		C. McKay ‘Flat-Foot Drill’ Constab Ballads 13: Right tu’n, you damn’ bungo brut!
1929		C. McKay Banjo 78: A really and truly down-there Bungo-Congo.
1942		L. Bennett ‘Obeh Win De War’ in Jamaica Dialect Verses 6: Me always get out cross w’en uncle / Cuss me bungo fool.

bungo-bessy (n.) [bessy n.] (W.I.)

1. an interfering busybody.

1940

cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).

2. a boorish low-class woman; also attrib.

1940		cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).
1983		T. White Catch a Fire 57: A dumb, ‘bungo-bessy’ (an adjective for unseemly conduct by a rural female) relationship.

bungo-talk (n.)

(W.I.) illiterate speech, the lowest level of uncultivated Jamaican speech.

1907		W. Jekyll Jam. Song and Story 12: His speech is Bungo talk.
1990		in Lalla & D’Costa Lang. in Exile 97: What is today classified as the ‘bungo talk’ of Annancy is actually stigmatized archaic basilectal creole.

bungo-toughy (n.) [toughie n.]

(W.I., Guyn.) a little child who eats or behaves like a hooligan.

1996