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[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 5: Come een like Suzy Westcut braggadosha bredda Bulla, who turn truck driver an always a boas bout how nobody bancyaan drive truck good like how he can drive truck, an omuch wagga-wagga money him meck outa drivin. Mmmm.
at braggadocious, adj.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 2: An when we seh smaddy ‘boogoo-yagga’, everbody know seh dat him outa-order.
at buguyaga, n.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 2: ‘I am not going backing’ is boogooyagga English. [...] An when we seh smaddy ‘boogoo-yagga’, everbody know seh dat him outa-order.
at buguyaga, adj.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 31: De bwoy cut him eye again, an same time de manager come through de door.
at cut eye, v.1
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 47: Before me tief, me wear jeng-jeng.
at jeng-jeng, n.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 34: An de waistcoat grampa dead lef / Nyamy-nyamy up and tear!
at nyamy-nyamy, n.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 83: Dat hear-sah seh-seh, susu, kas-kas an all dem tings.
at su-su, n.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 150: If yuh no tie bad dog strong, him get weh den go nyam yuh supper.
at nyam, v.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 150: When yuh llow dawg fi tase fowl egg, him nyam de very shell an all’, an im never stop tief egg so till him dead. Mmmm.
at t’ief, v.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 70: She know plenty-plenty oman who deh pon a drive motor car good-good fi plenty years mongs nuff hog-thomas man drivers.
at hog-thomas (n.) under hog, n.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 70: Man drivers got a bad way fi teck oman drivers meck poppy-show.
at poppy-show, n.2
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 22: Yes, Puppa! What a boonoonoonoos gif fi pickney eena Child Mont!
at boonoonoonoos, adj.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 23: Any lickle run nose po ting bwoy eena Jamaica nowadays can get a chance fi grow up an tun Governor-General.
at bwoy, n.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 20: She [Princess Anne] she never seh ‘let me hold your hand’ like some doodoofetic Jamaica people. She seh ‘meck me hole yuh han’, an she look pon Captain Phillip an laugh.
at doo-doo, adj.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 23: Hear de foo-foo gal.
at foo-foo, adj.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 22: Yes, Puppa! What a boonoonoonoos gif fi pickney eena Child Mont!
at papa!, excl.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 24: Me feel relief not a tief can tief / Me education!
at t’ief, n.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 22: Is which part poor Jamaica gwine get de money from fi do all dem wagga-wagga sinting?
at wagga-wagga, adj.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 14: Lawks, what a joke!
at lawks!, excl.
[WI] L. Bennett Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 11: One stocious examiner ask some student pon TV ‘What is the Jamaica National Flower?’.
at stocious, adj.2
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