| M |
M |
| Maco - |
A person who minds other
people’s business for the
purpose of gossip. |
| Macommère - |
A female companion or
friend. |
| Macocious, Makocious - |
A person who is prying,
nosy a maco. |
| Magga - |
Very thin, skinny. |
| Makaforshet - |
Left overs; from the
French phrase ma ca fourchette,
meaning food stuck between the
fork. |
| Maljoe - |
A blight, evil spell or
misfortune. |
| Make style - |
Show off, tantalise. |
| Malkadee - |
Blight, unhealthy, ill. |
| Mama Poule - |
A derogatory term for a
husband who seems to be
controlled by his wife, a
weakling, easily taken advantage
of. |
| Mama Yo! - |
Expression denoting
shock and surprise. |
| Mamaguy - |
To fast talk or sweet
talk, to try to fool, make fun of
or ridicule. |
| Mas/Mass - |
Masquerade, Carnival
parade. |
| Mas Camp - |
Where costumes and
floats for Carnival are designed
and fabricated. |
| Matter Fix - |
Everything is well
organized, everything is OK. |
| Mauby, Maubi - |
Bark of the tree
Colubrina reclinata used to make
a delicious drink of the same
name. |
| Mauvais langue - |
To bad talk someone, or
engage in damaging gossip. |
| Meh - |
My. |
| Melongene - |
Eggplant a vegetable
(Solanum melongena). |
| Merasmie - |
Un-healthy, sickly
looking. |
| Mih han slip - |
An expression used when
too much of an ingredient is
used. |
| Mo vey lang - |
Bad tongue, slanderous. |
| Moko Jumbie - |
Stilt dancers, an
African tradition carried over
into carnival. Their costumes
represent jumbies, or beings from
the dead. |
| Mooma - |
Mother. |
| Mout open, tory jump out
- |
Start to speak and
everthing is revealed. |
| Mouter - |
A boaster. |
| Much up - |
To pamper, to butter up. |
| Mud Band - |
A J’ouvert mas band
with revellers plastering their
bodies in mud from head to toe. |
| N |
N |
| Nah - |
No. |
| Nanny/Powder puff - |
Female genitalia,
vagina. |
| Nastiness - |
An expression of disgust
applied to a good-for-nothing
person. |
| Never see come see - |
Someone recently exposed
to something new thus goes to
ridiculous extremes. |
| Ning ning - |
Tired eyes. |
| Now fuh now - |
Instantly, right now. |
| No wherian - |
A person who does not
have any fixed place of abode. |
| O |
O |
| Obzokee - |
Awkward in appearance,
bent or twisted out of shape,
misshapen, clumsy. |
| Ochro - |
Okra. |
| Oh gorm man/Oh shimps
man - |
These expressions can
denote shock, surprise,
indignation and admiration. |
| Oh geed! - |
An expression used when
an offensive smell is detected. |
| Ohh gosh! - |
An expression used to
indicate surprise or disgust. |
| Ole talk - |
Idle empty chatter,
social chit-chat, nonsense. |
| One set ah - |
A lot of anything,
plentiful. |
| One han cyaa clap - |
One hand cant clap. A
bribe will grease the wheels, be
good to me I’ll take
care of you. |
| Own way - |
Stubborn person. |
| P |
P |
| Pahtnah/Partner - |
Homeboy, used by older
Trini males to each other. |
| Pallet - |
Frozen lolly on stick. |
| Panyard- |
Where steel bands
rehearse. |
| Pa pa yo! - |
Exclamation of surprise. |
| Pelau - |
A one-pot mixture of
pigeon peas and rice, cooked with
meat and flavoured with coconut
and pepper. |
| Peong - |
Someone who seems to be
addicted or obsessed with
something. |
| Pesh - |
Money. |
| Pholouri - |
Fritters made with split
peas. |
| Piarco - |
The international
airport in Trinidad. |
| Pierott granade - |
Local clown-like
carnival character. |
| Pickers - |
Thorns. |
| Pissin tail - |
A person of no class or
importance. |
| Planasse - |
To hit someone with the
flat side of a cutlass. |
| Playin social - |
Someone who pretends to
be of a higher social strata than
they are. |
| Po po - |
Very small child, a
baby. |
| Pommerac - |
A bright red fruit with
velvety white interior; could
have come from the patois for
Maracas apple. |
| Pomme cythere - |
The fruit golden apple. |
| Pong - |
Pound. |
| Port of Spain - |
Capital city of The
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago,
located in NW Trinidad. |
| Pressure/Preshah - |
Intense circumstances,
rough times. |
| Prim prim - |
Disgustingly proper and
formal. |
| Q |
Q |
| Qualey - |
Withered, dried up. |
| Quenk - |
An irritating person. |
| R |
R |
| Raff - |
To grab suddenly, to
take away something from someone. |
| Ragadang - |
Broken down, derelict. |
| Ram cram - |
Packed to capacity. |
| Rat toungue does sell e
head - |
Disclosing too much will
get you into trouble. |
| Road March King - |
A Calypso composer whose
tune has been adjugded the most
popular (played) for that
particular year’s Carnival. |
| Roti - |
A thin flat baked dough
resembling a tortilla filled with
curried beef, chicken, goat,
shrimp or vegetables. |
| Rude - |
Nasty, sexually
explicit. |
| Rumfle - |
Ruffled or wrinkled. |
