sheg v.
1. to annoy, to provoke.
![]() | cited in Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980). | |
![]() | Jam. Patois 47: Doan come sheg rohn mi wid yu rank fish an’ dem! – Don’t come fool around me with your raw-smelling fishy hands! |
2. to seduce.
![]() | cited in Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980). | |
![]() | Catch a Fire 239: The bad boys who liked to [...] sheg their stuckies to the motion of the cuckie skank. |
3. to do badly.
![]() | Old Story Time (1981) n.p.: sheg: botch. | Gloss. in
4. see shag v.1
In phrases
to die.
![]() | Jamaica Gleaner Online 4 Sept. 🌐 So either Kartel get sheg, or the law of Karma has got a good hold of him. | |
![]() | Jamaica Gleaner Online 25 Sept. 🌐 [I]f you drop dung inna Jamaica and need an ambulance fast, you need [...] private arrangements [...] or undahstan’ se yuh get sheg. |
to fail, to collapse.
![]() | Jamaican Gleaner Online 10 July 🌐 [P]oor people fed up. To how yu system sheg up. Well every day ghetto youths dead up. |