chupid adj.
(W.I.) gullible, ignorant.
Voices in Exile (1989) 91: Cho, go ’bout you business, man; you is chupid boy. | ‘Tom Kittle’s Wake’ in D’Costa & Lalla||
in Journal of Amer. Folklore Apr. IX 32: It da jump about, and shake him head, and do all kin’ o’ ’tupid ting. | ||
Proverbs of British Guiana 13: Chupit man gie ’way he ’poon, an’ eat wif’e han’. | ||
Black Border 293: chupid / chupit – stupid. | ||
Three Comic Sketches 8: Is only a chupidee man what doesen’t listen to he wife. | ||
Calalloo Nation 171: He also must negotiate a fine line between accommodating simplicity and not insulting participants by implying that they are chupidee— ignorant, stupid. |
In derivatives
gullibility, foolishness, nonsense.
Man-of-Words in the West Indies 96: He is classed as a fool and accused of talking trupidness. [...] Talking trupidness is expected [...] from persons who really are trupidy. | ||
King of the Carnival 155: Chupidness: stupidity. | ||
Chutney Power and Stories 33: Her neighbours always laughed loudly at ‘chupidness’. |