A : prep. to as in "go a shop",from Spanish

A GO : aux w/v. going to do, as in "Me a go tell him"

A DOOR : outdoors.

ACCOMPONG : n. name of Maroon warrior, Capt. Accompong,brother of Cudjo; also name of town.
From the Twi name for the supreme deity

ACKEE : n. African food tree introduced about 1778. FromTwiankye or Kru akee

AGONY : the sensations felt during sex

ALIAS : adj. (urban slang) dangerous, violent

AN : and

ARMAGEDDON : the biblical final battle between the forces of good and evil

ASHAM : n. Parched, sweetened, and ground corn. From twiosiam

BABYLON : 1. the corrupt establishment, the "system",Church and State
2. the police, a policeman

BAD : good, great

BADNESS : hooligan behavior, violence for its own sake

BAFAN : clumsy; awkward

BAFANG : a child who did not learn to walk the 1st 2-7 years.

BAG-O-WIRE : a betrayer

BAGGY : underpants for a woman or child.

BALMYARD : n. place where pocpmania rites are held, healing is done, spells cast or lifted

BAKRA : white slavemaster, or member of the ruling class in colonial days. Popular etymology: "back raw" (which he bestowed with a whip.)

BALD-HEAD : a straight person; one without dreadlocks; one who works for babylon

BAMBA YAY : by and by

BAMBU : rolling paper

BAMMY : a pancake made out of cassava, after it has been grated and squeezed to remove the bitter juice.

BANDULU : bandit, criminal, one living by guile a BANDULU BIZNESS is a racket, a swindle.

BANGARANG : hubbub, uproar, disorder, disturbance.

BANKRA : a big basket, including the type which hangs over the sides of a donkey.

BANS : from bands; a whole lot, a great deal, nuff, whole heap.

BAT : butterfly or moth. English bat, the flying rodent, is a rat-bat.

BATTY : bottom; backside; anus.

BATTYBWOY : a gay person

BEAST : a policeman

BEX : vex (verb), or vexed (adjective).

BHUTTU (BUHTUH) : an uncouth, out of fashion, uncultured person
Use: Wey yu a go inna dem deh cloze? Yu fayva buttu

BISSY : cola nut.

BLY : chance, "must get a bly", "must get a chance".

BOASIE : adj. proud, conceited, ostentatious. Combination of English boastful and Yoruba bosi-proud and
ostentation.

BOBO : fool.

BRAA : from BREDDA; brother.

BRAATA : a little extra; like the 13th cookie in a baker'sdozen;or an extra helping of food. In musical shows it has come to be the encore.

BREDREN : one's fellow male Rastas

BRINDLE : to be angry.

BRINKS : title given to a man who is supplying a woman with money

BUBU : fool.

BUCKY : home-made gun

BUFU-BUFU : fat, swollen, blubbery; too big; clumsy or lumbering.

BUGUYAGA : a sloppy, dirty person, like a bum or tramp.

BULL BUCKA : a bully

BULLA : a comon sugar and flour cookie or small round cake, sold everywhere in Jamaica.

BUMBA CLOT, (TO GET) BUN : to have one's spouse or girl/boy-friend cheat on oneself, to be cheated out of something

RAS CLOT, BLOOD CLOT : curse words

BUMBO : bottom; backside. A common curse word, especially in combination with CLOT (cloth), a reference to the days before toilet paper.

BUNGO : n. racially pejorative. Crude, black, ignorant, boorish person. From Hausa bunga-bumpkin, nincompoop

BUNKS : to knock or bump against, from "to bounce",

BUNKS MI RES, catch my rest, take a nap.

BUPPS : Sugar daddy, Man who provides for women financially. Usually a woman uses a bupps.

(THE) CAT : a woman's genital

CARD : to fool someone

CEASE & SEKKLE! : stop everything and relax !

CERACE : a ubiquitous vine used for boiling medicinal tea, and for bathing. It is proverbial for its itterness.

CHA ! or CHO ! : a disdainful expletive pshaw ! very common, mild explanation expressing impatience, vexation or disappointment.

D.J. : a person who sings or scats along with dub music, sometimes called "toasting"

DAAL : split peas, usually a thick soup, from Indian cuisine, from Hindi.

DADA : father

DALLY : executive zig-zag movements on wheels or on foot to ride a bicycle or motorbike with a weaving motion, as when ones weaves around potholes.

DAN DADA : the highest of DON'S

DAN : than

DARKERS : sunglasses

DASHEEN : a big soft yam-like root, often slightly greyish when cooked. It is related to the coco, but one eats the "head" instead of the tubers.

DAWTA : a girl, woman, "sister," girlfriend

DEADERS< : meat, meat by-products

DEESTANT : decent.

DEGE or DEGE-DEGE skimpy, measly, only, as in a two dege-dege banana.

DEH : there (place)

DEY : v. to be, exist, as in "No yam no dey". From Ewe de or Twi de - to be

DI : the

DINKI : a kind of traditional dance at funerals or "nine nights" ("set-ups"); now popular among school children.

DIS or DIS YA : this

DJEW : as a verb, rain a djew; as a noun, djew rain. It means a light rain or drizzle.

DOGHEART : a person who is especially cold and cruel

DOLLY : executive zig-zag movements on wheels

DON : one who is respected, master of a situation

DONKYA : from "don't care" careless, sloppy, lacking ambition, etc...

DOONDOOS : an albino.

DOWNPRESSOR : preferred term for oppressor

(TO) DRAW CARD : the act of fooling someone

DREAD:

1. a person with dreadlocks

2. a serious idea or thing

3. a dangerous situation or person

4. the "dreadful power of the holy"

5. experientially, "awesome, fearful confrontation of a people with a primordial but historically denied racial selfhood"

DREADLOCKS :

1. hair that is neither combed nor cut

EASE-UP : to forgive, to lighten up

EVERYTING COOK & CURRY : all is well, all is taken care of

FAS' : to be fast with, meaning to be rude, impertinent, to meddle with sombody's business, to be forward...

FASSY : eczema-like scratchy sores on the skin; also a verb meaning to cause oneself to be covered with
fassy by scratching.

FAYVA : to favour, resemble, or look like; "fayva like" also means "it seems as if".

FE : the infinitive "to" as in "Have fe go"

FEEL NO WAY : don't take offense, don't be sorry, don't worry

FENKY-FENKY : (from finicky) choosy, proud, stuck-up.

FENNEH : v. to feel physical distress, pain. From Twi fene-to vomit; Fante fena-to be troubled; Lumba
feno-to faint

FI : possessive. "fi me"-"mine"

FIESTY : impudent, rude, out of order, cheeky.

FIRST LIGHT : tomorrow

(HIM A) FISH : a gay person

FIT : when used of fruits and vegetables, it means ready to pick, full grown, though not necessarily fully ripe.

FORWARD:

1. to go, move on, set out

GAAN TO BED : an adverbial phrase; following a verb of liking or loving, it has a superlative meaning; Can be used in any context, such as "I love hafu yam gaan to bed!".

GANJA : herb, marijuana

GANSEY : t-shirt, any knit shirt

(TO) GET SALT : to be thwarted, to encounter misfortune

GATES : home, yard

GENERAL : cool operator

GIG : spinning top.

GINNAL : n. trickster, con-man, an Amnancy figure as in "Sunday Ginnal"-a preacher or clergyman

GLAMITY : a woman's genitals

GORGON : outstanding dreadlocks

(DON) GORGON : outstanding dreadlocks, a person who is respected

GRAVALICIOUS : greedy, avaricious.

GRINDSMAN : one who displays great prowess in bed

GROUNATION : large, island-wide meeting and celebration of Rastas >

GROUND : home, yard

HACKLE : to hassle, bother, worry, trouble. As a noun, hackling.

HAFFI : to have to...

HAIL : a greeting

HARD : excellent, proficient, skillful, uncompromising

HEETCH : itch. Many such words could be listed under H, as initial H is added to scores of words at will.

HEAD MAN JANCRO : n. albino buzzard

HERB : marijuana

HIEZ-HAAD : ears-hard, thick skulled, stubborn, unwilling or unableto hear.

HIEZ : ears.

HITEY-TITEY : upper class, high tone, "stoosh".

HOOD : penis.

HORTICAL (DON) : respected, acclaimed

HOT-STEPPER : fugitive from jail or gun court

I-MAN : I, me, mine

I-NEY : a greeting

I-REY : 1. a greeting 2. excellent, cool, highest

I-SHENCE : herb

I-TAL : vital, organic, natural, wholesome; refers to way of cooking and way of life in colors, red, green and gold. I : replaces "me", "you", "my" replaces the first syllable of seleted words. I and I, I&I: I, me, you and me, we. Rastafari speech eliminates you, me we, they, etc., as divisive and replaces same with communal I and I.
I and I embraces the congregation in unity with the Most I (high) in an endless circle of inity (unity).

IEZ-HAAD : ears-hard, thick skulled, stubborn, unwilling or unable to hear.

IEZ : ears.

ILIE : adj. literally, "highly", valuable, exalted, even sacred

IGNORANT : short-tempered, easy to vex, irate.

INNA DI MORROWS : tomorrow

INNA : In the

IRIE : adj. powerful and pleasing

ISMS and SKISMS : negative term denoting Babylon's classificatory systems

ITES :

1. the heights

2. a greeting

3. the color red great

JA, JAM-DOWN : Jamaica

JACKASS ROPE : homegrown tobacco, twisted into a rope.

JAH KNOW : Lord knows

JAH : God; possibly derived as a shortened form of Jahweh or Jehovah Jah Ras Tafari, Haille Selassie, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, conquering Lion of Judah; rastas revere Haile Selassie as the personification of the Almighty

JAMDUNG : Jamaica, "Jam" to press down "dung" down. Ironic reference to social and economic conditions of the masses

JAMMIN : to be having a good time, to be dancing calypso/soca

JANCRO : n. literally John Crow, buzzard

JANGA : shrimp, crayfish.

JELLY : a young coconut, full of jelly.

JON CONNU : n. (John Canoe). Bands of elaborately masked dancers appearing around Christmas. They ressemble the ancestral dancers of West Africa, but the ety. of the word is unclear.

JOOK : to pierce or stick, as with a thorn or a long pointed stick.

JUDGIN' : adjective, everyday or ordinary clothes or shoes worn in the yard or in the bush, as in "judgin' boot". Also as a verb, to judge, with a similar meaning.

JUU : as a verb, rain a juu; as a noun, juu rain. It means a light rain or drizzle.

KALI; COOLY : marijuana

KALLALOO : a dark, green leafy vegetable, very nutritious and cheap.

KASS KASS : n. quarrel or contention. From combination of English curse or cuss, and Twi kasa kasa-to dispute verbally

KATA : a roll of cloth or vegetation placed on top of the head to cushion the skull from the weight of a head load.

KEMPS : a little bit, a tiny piece, from skimps.

KISS ME NECK ! : common exclamation of surprise.

KISS TEET : to kiss one's teeth or to suck one's teeth is to make the very common hissing noise of disappoval, dislike, vexation or disappointment.

KOUCHIE : bowl of a chalice or chillum pipe

KRENG-KRENG : an old-fashioned meat rack, hung up high over the fire to catch the smoke.
KU DEH ! : look there !

KU PAN : look at.

KU YA ! : look here !

KU : verb, look !

KUMINA : n. Ecstatic dance for the purpose of communicating with ancestors. From Twi akom-to be possessed and ana-by an ancestor.

KYA :

1. to care; "donkya", don't care, careless; "no kya" means no matter, as in "no kya weh im tun", no matter where he turns.