Trini Creole Dictionary

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Hands up – To be held at gunpoint

Harden- Disobedient, stubborn, hard headed, someone who does listen or learn

Hambug (or Humbug) – To pester or bother someone

Happy like pappy – Overjoyed

Hard Back – Grown up and one who should know better

Hard Back Indian – Person of East Indian ethnicity, who grew up in the hard way of life, usually tough.

Harden- Disobedient.

Hasecara – Trouble or confusion, e.g.To make hasecara

Hen – An effeminate man

Hi-Lo – Local supermarket chain

Hole strain – Wait a while, hold on a while, e.g. “Doh be so impatient, hole strain”

Horrors – Fretting, e.g Doh ketch no horrors, doh dig no horrors, don’t fret yourself

Hoso – Anteater

Honest truth – The truth e.g. Well gyul, to tell yuh de hones’ truth, Ah eh buy de gif’ yet

Hototo (hotoetoe) – A very large amount of anything

How de la vie? – How is life? , how yuh goin’?

How yuh mean? – You don’t say?

Horn – Adultery, when the one you love has an affair with someone else. Usage:

Horner Man- Horner Woman– The person who does the horning

Head Hot – Very busy with things that have to be done immediately, plenty of worries and pressing matters, e.g. Doh talk to meh, meh head hot right now

Howdy or howdee – Hi, hello

Huggish ( Hoggish) – Rude, crude, mean behaviorABCDEFGIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

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