whining n.— «St Lucians usually only need the sound of two sticks beating together to start “whining”—around here that’s patois for “shakin’ your booty.”» —“Cricket carnival can’t cajole Castries” by Chris...
shotta n.— «“Shottas,” a slick but dull new shoot-’em-up from Jamaica, doesn’t penetrate the mysteries of high-rolling, high-risk thug life. It perpetuates them. In the local patois, the title means “gangsta,” and...
fuck-me factor n.— «Ever since Jagger emerged from a mechanical lotus flower in 1975, such audience-bewitching coups have been deemed essential to every Stones tour. They are known, in Stones patois, as the “f***-me factor...
wash-belly n.— «Hyacinth “Iya” Archibald’s world was uplifted, when on September 25, 1978, her last child (in Jamaican patois called “wash-belly”) Ricardo “Bibi” Gardner was born.» —“Boy wonder...
thizz v.— «True to the night’s theme, the two are indeed thizzin’—meaning, in hip-hop patois, that they’re high on the drug Ecstasy.» —“Feelin’ Their Thizzle” by Arch Stanton Infoshop News Mar. 20, 2006. (source:...
dibby-dibby adj.— «He has a guy talking about dibby-dibby girls and in the patois dibby-dibby means nothing—like dibby-dibby money which is worthless. I’ve never heard anyone talk about a dibby-dibby woman. He’s trying very hard but he...