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Babash - see Mountain dew
Bacchanal - Large noisy happening, scandal, big party, confusion
Bachac - The leaf cutter ant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leafcutter_ant
Back - Usage:
- Back Squeeze - To hold back, e.g. Ah back squeeze ah lil change. (I save some money)
- Back back - To reverse. E.g. Doh back back on me
- Back chat - Insolent response- usually from a subordinate to a superior or child toan elder
- Back, Belly and Side- To get it from all sides, usually criticism of some kind
- Backside - Posterior, your rear end, buttocks. {also boom boom, background, boomsie, behind
Bad - Usage:
- Bad Drive - Reckless driving
- Bad eye (or cut eye ) - To look at somebody with slitted eyes
- Bad-John - A worthless character- always ready to fight; a bully.
- Bad lucky - Unlucky
- Bad mine - Bad mind, evil thoughts
Bakra Johnnie - Fair skinned African with blond hair
Bambam, Bamsee - Posterior, your rear end- your derriere, buttocks.
Bam Bam Head - Somebody who has no common sense
Bamboozle - To con someone
Bamsee Lambe - A rather attractive posterior
Bath suit - Swim suit
Bazodee - Totally confused, drunk, light headed, half silly, e.g. De blow make he bazodee - The blow knocked him semi conscious
Bawl - Usage: To Bawl Dong De Place - To cry excessively; to be in a state of grief.
Beh beh - Stupid
Behin' - behind. Usage:
- Behin' God Back - A very distance place. Such as the remotest part of the country.
- Behin' Yuh Back- In your absence.
Bekaneg - An albino
Better Yuhself- (Better yourself) - To improve your financial and social condition.
Baigan - Eggplant or melongene
Big Gooms /Goomps - A large sized marble approx' 3-4 cm
Bite up - To be in a quarrelsome mood, e.g: How yuh bite up so today?
Blank - To ignore somebody, e.g: How yuh blankin' meh so?
Blight - A person who brings bad luck.
Blighted - Being bad lucky
Blofo - A very fat person, e.g.: Dat gyul eh fat, she blofo!
Blues - A Trinidad and Tobago $100 dollar note; also pornography.
Blood Eh Take - To instinctively dislike, or distrust someone.
Bloomin' France - An expression of anger, substitution for foul language.
Bobolee - A person who is being taken advantage of
Boboloops - Grossly overweight, obese, or fat person.
Bodi - Long bean that grows on a vine
Bokee - The act of hitting someone's knuckles hard by pitching a marble.
Bois Bande - Bark of a tree of same name, used to make a tea brew which is alleged to have aphrodisiac powers
Bol' face - (Bold face) A pushy person, unreasonably demanding.
Boo Boo Man - A bogey man, A scary person e.g De boo boo man go come fuh yuh if you eh behave
Boof up - To insult somebody
Bounce - Usage: Bounce meh nah- Usually said when walking in front of a car in the road ( jaywalking and daring the driver).
Bowgee - (East Indian derivative) Sister-in-law
Bragadang - A sound...like a breadfruit falling on a galvanized roof.
Bram - Sound of something falling or something or someone getting hit; also, a rowdy fete, act of pressing clothes quickly
Break away - Dance wildly to a calypso tune
Bright - Intelligent, knowledgeable, smart
Brokes - Have no money, e.g. “Ah totally brokes today.
Brokofoot - A person walking with a limp or physically challenged person.
Broughtupsy - Upbringing, conduct, character
Brush - To have sexual intercourse
Brudder - Brother
Buh wait nah - Wait a minute, now hold it right there
Bush Bath - A mixture of the extract of certain bushes which is added to the bath water in order to stop a period of bad luck or to reverse a sickness
Buss - Usage:
- De business gone buss -To go broke
- He buss he brains studyin' las' night - To study hard
- Buss yuh tail - To fall down, or to get a beating.
- Buss d' mark - Refers to when the "mark"(the number/symbol) is revealed in the local gambling game called whe whe (now commercialized and called Play Whe)
- Buss-Up-Shut - Synonymous for Paratha Roti because of the way the roti looks ripped up when done.
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