JAMAICA DICTIONARY: S

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 S. If you don't see a term, tell us and we'll put it up.

S

salt: a term used when nothing going right. The term is derived from salt in a wound.

samfy: a tricks or a con

science: the practice of witchcraft and/or obeah

screw: a frown of displeasure, a scowl

sey: say

shoob: shove (shoob-in = bar, place you need to use your elbows)

sidung: sit down

simiya: I'm here

sinting: something

sista: sister

skank: to deceive, to cheat

skin teeth: smiling

slackness: lewd, vulgar behaviour

smaddy: somebody

smalls: a gift of money or a gratuity

skettel: a term used to describe woman who emulate dancehall dress & fashion

star: friend

stush: snobbish

su su: to gossip, nosey, to carry news

sugga: sugar

suck suck: home made pop in a plastic bag. The name is derived from sucking one corner of the badsuck, slurp