12 WORDS JAMAICANS INVENTED

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  @warriorchild2521 · 2 years ago

  I know a little girl 👧🏿 who was always late ⏰ for School 🏫 but Never received, a “beating from any Teachers/Principals etc…The reason was she was living with her Stepmother and her father 🧑…( I think her mother had passed away). The Stepmother Children were always early, never late ⏰, well put together..Sometimes she would be Carrying Water 💦 for the home 🏠  , in. The morning while her Siblings were dressed nicely and early for School…also she would have to be doing the housework etc..All the Teachers and Principal knew and to top it off she,would still have to take care of her Siblings at School 🏫..Sometimes,She would just put her head on the desk and sleep 😴 ..So tired 😴 and the Teacher would let her be..One of Teachers sent a message to her Parents, to let them that she was Sleeping in the Class etc…And what her Step mother did was to give her Coffee ☕️ to drink in the Mornings,..even black Coffee)Smh.. I felt so bad for her that we Started to help her with her Siblings…Very nice quiet Girl, She was such a very Nice Person,very kind,always smiling 😊.. She was a Sickly Person, Asthmatic/ Pneumonia ..battled depression. She was so brilliant , despite she had no time to Study 📖..her Memory was so good 😊 ..She would come first in the Class every time..😂❤..We would be asking her for answers 😂😂in our School work etc.. She was the Only Person I knew that Passed every Scholarships that she took..She was just Naturally brilliant…even when she skipped Classes,

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• MD

  @MD_ENTERTAINMENT · 2 years ago

  My grandmother who died at 92 use to call anything that is weak and feeble "fenke fenke". This includes the fence at the back of the house, so no it's not just humans

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• MA

  @markspringer716 · 2 years ago

  Jamaican make up words everyday .recently , ..a female in a kitchen promised to use an empty frying pan to PENG PENG me up .😂😂😂

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• GA

  @garfieldhamil9627 · 1 year ago

  Ms Grant - Barrette was my high school teacher.  It was refreshing to see her in a new role and still imparting knowledge.

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• MA

  @marshabenedict8041 · 1 year ago

  The black community in Costa Rica and other countries in Central America use a lot of these words...after all we are Jamaican/ Caribbean descendants. Love us all! Jah bless!!!

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• YA

  @yanique1908 · 1 year ago

  Panka panka is also when a job is done poorly for example someone who’s just barely working, you’d say “she a panka panka gwaan”

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• IS

  @Islandonelove123 · 1 year ago

  She’s right! Most of these expressions comes from West Africa.  ❤

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• CO

  @colleenhenry-bs6ij · 2 years ago

  Me love how she explain everything!!

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• NA

  @naturalmystics-kd9vt · 2 years ago

  You are a great Jamaican man because our history is dieing and those old ways are the best days of our life

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• TA

  @TashOnTheRock · 1 year ago

  Here in Newfoundland you may hear someone say “ Just gonna give the floor a Scottish lick and an Irish promise” or the other way around . ✌️💕🇨🇦

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• TO

  @TonyCardona-n3u · 1 year ago

  Jamaicans are very entertaining folks...

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• ED

  @Edgie84 · 1 year ago

  Kuchuments a lot of other Caribbean islands use that word too... means alot of  things

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