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Jamaican Humour in Dialect choose

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[WI] advert in L. Bennett Jam. Humour [inside cover] Bwoy what a ting can nice! Tark ’bout nice t’ings? Bwoy . . . a dis one de mad dem! No odder corfie can come near Missa Lascelles’ Blue Mountain – Is a class corfie dat, man – You must know!
at bwoy!, excl.
[WI] L. Bennett ‘Jamaica Ant’emt’ in Jam. Humour 6: Doah Jamaica ant’em shoulda be / ‘We all a combolo’.
at combolo, n.
[WI] L. Bennett ‘Partin’’ Jam. Humour 17: Tell pupa plenty howdy [...] Tell John howdy do!
at howdy do, phr.
[WI] L. Bennett ‘Italy Fall’ in Jam. Humour 25: So Germany soon die out now, / For as yuh know Miss Fan, / Wen smady pendicitis bus, / Dem gawn a shet-eye lan’.
at go to shut-eye land (v.) under shut-eye, n.1
[WI] L. Bennett ‘Leff-Out’ in Jam. Humour 19: Every-bady watch out [...] For me have bad goat mout.
at goat-mouth (n.) under goat, n.1
[WI] L. Bennett ‘Kus-Kus’ in Jam. Humour 15: Dat marga gal Wingy / Want put me eena kus-kus / An big lian story.
at kass kass, n.
[WI] L. Bennett ‘Leff-Out’ in Jam. Humour 19: De dutty, ugly, frill mout nayga / Brut noh got noh heart.
at nagah, n.
[WI] L. Bennett ‘Cunny’ in Jam. Humour 2: A bwoy coulds fool an’ holy / Like Parson Joe ole socks.
at old socks (n.) under old, adj.
[WI] L. Bennett ‘Jamaica Ant’emt’ in Jam. Humour 7: It hooda suit one genkleman / Fe sing ‘Peel head John-crow’.
at peel-head (adj.) under peel, v.
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