Trini Creole Dictionary

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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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