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 Barclay in Gros Islet, St. Lucia Stuff.co.nz (New Zealand) Mar. 13, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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common caribbean word