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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.