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JAMAICA DICTIONARY - B
Do all your Jamaican friends laugh at you
every time you open your mouth and try to speak Jamaican? Jamaicanize
your vocabulary here with our words that start with B. If you
don't see a term, tell us and we'll put it up.
baas: boss, somtimes
used like the North American slang "bro" or "Cheif"
babylon: police, any establishment
back-aff: back off, take off
backa: behind
backative: backing, support, buy in
bak chat: back talk
backside: cure term
backways: backwards
badda: bother, extremly bad person
badmine: jealous or having gudge
bafan: clumsy, awkward
bait: someone who trash talks and never
delivers
bakra: overseer, superior, from the
slavery term "back raw" from being whipped by the slavemaster
baldhead: anybody without dreadlocks,
accepting the esablishment
bandooloo: dishonest or dishonety
bangarang: disturbance, noice
bankra: a big basket
bashment: a party
bat: a moth
bata: any cheap shoes, the name is derived
from the popular but inexpensive brand of shoes called Bata.
batta: batter or battered, most frequently
used to refer to battered fruit.
battabout: loose woman or somthing that
has been around the block
bawn: born
bawn back a cow: a term used to describe
being stupid.
bawn-ya: born here. Used to describe
been born in Jamaica
bayfoot: barefoot
batty: bottom or buttocks
battybwoy: a homosexual male
bax juice: box drinks, small box drinks
that is popular in Jamaica
beenie: small
beg: Please for, to ask
betta: better
bigga: bigger, Also a popular pet name
big up: a phrase which is used as acompliment
or praise to someone
bissy: cola nut that is sometimes dried
and used as medicine.
bizniz: business
bling bling: diamonds, jewellery
bly: to give a chance, giving some a
break
boasie: boasty
bokkle: bottle
bonafide: an orginal, somthing that
is sincere
boonoonoonoos: pleasant, nice
boops: a sugardaddy
boopsie: a woman that is being well
kept by a sugardaddy
booguyaga: not worth anything, low class
bout: about
brawta: a gift, bonus, above expected,
It is the Jamaican equivalent of a "bakers dozen"
breda: brother
bringle: being angry, upset
brinks: sugardaddy, having plenty money
browning: light skinned woman of African
descent.
bruck out: wild, out of control.
bruck up: break up, battered, broken
bubu: nose naat (snot), an unintelligent
person
bull bucka: butts heads with a bull,
refering to someone who is a bully
bullah: a round Jamaican gingerbread
bun: burn, a Jamaican cake eaten mainly
at Easter time, doing something with some expectations but getting
nothing in return
bus: revealing a secret
Boottu: a loutish, vulgar person
bwoy: boy
bunks: a nap or sleep at someone house.
Catch a likkle one bunks
bad bad bad: very bad situation. extreme
issue
bad mine: carrying a grudge
bad mout: bad mouth, to speak bad about
someone, gossiping
bad wud: bad word
badda: bother
badda badda: bother bother, to constantly
bother someone where it becomes annoying.
badderation: a big problem
baddest: worst
bade: bath
badi: body
baggy: panty, childs underpants
ball an chain: strict control
bammy: a cake made of cassava eaten
frequently with fish
bandooloo (bandulu): a swindle or racket
bangarang: commotion or noise
bans: plenty
batta: soften
battam: bottom
batty rider: mini shorts pants
bawl: to cry, a ball
bawl out: crying out
bwan: born
bax: to be slapped in the face, a box
bax juice: a boxed drink
baybee: baby
bear: only
beeny: small or tiny
behine: behind
ben dung: bending down
Ben Johnson day: the day before pay
day
bench an batty: a term use to describe
two people who are rarely seen without each other, inseperable.
This term is derived from the relationship ones bottom (batty)
has to their chair (bench).
Bendun maaket: aroadside market
betta: better
bex: vex
big tings a gwan: big things are happening
big up: hello or my regards
biggis: biggest
bickle: Food. Most often use as "likkle
bickle"
black out: power outage or
blouse an skirt: an exclamation
blue drause: sweet potato wrapped in
banna leaf an boiled- see recipe
boad: board
boas: boast
boasify: boastfully
BOAL: Jamaicans.com short hand for Bust
Out A Laff
bobbo dread: broom selling dreadlocks
bogle: a dance move which derived it's
name from Jamaican national hero Paul Bogle
bout: about
bokkle: bottle
booguyaga/buguyaga: low rate, worthless,
low class
boonoonunus: pentiful, beautiful
Boops: this is the term used to describe
a man who financia supports a woman but get nothing in return
boopsie: a weel kept young woman
boots: a condom
Boun fi: sure thing to happen, must
happen
box cover: and exclamation similar to
"ooh goosh"
braata: extra
breda anancy: The name of the main character
of the Jamaican folklore stories of the man-spider named Anancy/Anansi.
The stories can be traced back to Africa. See stories now!!!
Breadfruit: a fruit that is boiled or
roasted
breda: brother, friend
breed: being pregnant
brinks: a boops or sugar daddy
brook lac: Brooklax the laxative, the
name used for any chocolate laxative
brought upsi: being brought up good
mannerism
brownin: brown skin girl
bruck out: bad or unruly behavior
bruk: broke. Having no money
Bruk up: Break up
brukins: an occasion where food is served.
bubu: dunce or nose naat.
Buckup: lucky
bud: bird
buddy: penis
buff out: buldging
bugga: cheap sneakers.
buk shot: an exclamation
bulla: a jamaican cake made with sugar
and ginger.
bully beef: corned beef
bumpa: car bumper or big buttocks
bumptious: a ruffian
bush: the country
bush docta: a herbalist
bush tea: tea made from herb
buss-out: burst out
Busta: a small mollases candy which
is named after Jamaican Nationa hero Six Alexander Bustamante
Jamaica's first Prime Minister
butoo: a low class person, to act low
class
butooish: to act like a low class person
butterfly: jamaican dance movement where
the legs move like a butterfly
buuf: a term that describes someone
getting insulted
bwile: boil
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