| S |
S |
| Saga boy / girl - |
A male / female who is
boastful of his or her physical
attributes, flashy dresser,
dandy. |
| Sampat - |
An unfair attack,
out-numbered ambush. |
| Schupid, Chupid,
Schupidness - |
- Stupid. |
| Schupidee, Chupidee - |
A stupid person. |
| Screw pan - |
An angry or determined
look on a persons face, usually
humorous and ugly. |
| Shades - |
Sunglasses. |
| Shadow beni - |
Cilantro, a herb known
for its distinctive seasoning
flavour, used in cooking meats. |
| Shif yuh carcass - |
Move over, get going. |
| Shrims - |
Shrimps. |
| Shub/Shove - |
Move or cast aside. |
| Skin up yuh nose - |
To turn up ones nose at
anything. |
| Skinnin yuh teet - |
Grinning. |
| Sky-lark - |
To idle, waste time. |
| Soca - |
Calypso. |
| Sometimeish - |
Moody. |
| Soucouyant, Sucuyant - |
Usually an old female
vampire that sheds its human skin
and flies at night as a ball of
fire, sucking the blood of its
victims. |
| Souse - |
Boiled pork or other
meats served cold in a tasty,
seasoned sauce with lime,
cucumber, pepper and onion. |
| Spit in de air it goh
fall in yu face - |
The evil you do will
come back to haunt you. |
| Steel Pan, Steel band - |
Melodic percussion
instruments made out of oil drums
and invented in Trinidad in the
1930's |
| Suck eye- |
Too easy for words to
describe. |
| Sweetie - |
Any confectionary, an
attractive female. |
| Swell up yuh face - |
To look angry, to pout. |
| T |
T |
| Tabanca - |
The forlorn feeling one
gets when a romantic relationship
ends. |
| Tantie, Tante - |
Aunt. |
| Teef - |
Thief. |
| Tent, Kaiso tent - |
A calypso or soca
concert featuring several
singers, music bands and
comedians. |
| Tick, Thick - |
Overweight as in
“She not real fat, he
slim-tick”. |
| Tight - |
Intoxicated, drunk,
stoned. |
| Ting - |
Thing. |
| Titty-vay, Titivate - |
To waste time or stir up
trouble. |
| TNT - |
Trinidad and Tobago,
twin island nation six miles off
the coast of Venezuela, South
America. The home of soca music
and the best Carnival show in the
world. |
| To besides - |
Besides which. |
| To throw watar on duck
back - |
To waste your time, to
make futile attempts. |
| Toh-ty, Toti, ToTo - |
The Male genitalia,
penis. |
| Too tool bay /
Toutoulday - |
A confused state, in a
daze, also head over heels in
love, a gullible person, a fool. |
| Too-bay-go - |
Tobago. |
| Too-nee, poom-poom,
scizzors - |
Female genitalia,
vagina. |
| Toolum - |
A candy made with
molasses and grated coconut. |
| Tot Tots - |
Female breasts. |
| Trinbago - |
Short for Trinidad and
Tobago. |
| Two tounged - |
Deceitful. |
| U |
U |
| Umpteen - |
Plenty of anything, very
often. |
| V |
V |
| Vampin - |
Producing a veryn
offensive smell. |
| Vaps - |
A suddenly behave
excitedly or in a strange manner. |
| Vex - |
Angry, vexed. |
| Vikiey vi - |
Evasive, unreliable,
indecisive. |
| W |
W |
| Wais - |
Waist. |
| Wajang - |
A roudy, uncouth person. |
| Warap - |
A very weak mixture. |
| Well yes! - |
An expression of
disbelief. |
| Wet fowl - |
Sickly looking. |
| Wha happenin dey? - |
What’s happening? |
| Whappen? - |
What's the matter with
you? or How are things? |
What sweet in goat mout
does -
sour in he bam bam |
Fun today will cause
problems in the future. |
| When cock geh teet - |
It will never happen; an
impossible situation. |
| Whey - |
Where. |
| Whey yuh say? - |
What did you say? |
| Wine, Winin - |
A sexually suggestive
dance using rthymic hip gyrations
that can make the hula look tame,
best done to calypso music. |
| Y |
Y |
| Yampee - |
Mucus found in the
corner of the eyes, especially
after a long nights sleep. |
| You an all? - |
You too? |
| You so - |
People like you. |
| Yuh makin joke! - |
You can't be serious. |
| Yuh faddah head - |
An expression indicating
disgust. |
| Yuh faddah is a
glassmaker? - |
You are blocking my
view. |
| Yuh look fuh dat - |
It is your own fault. |
| Z |
Z |
| Zaboca - |
Avocado, a salad fruit. |
| Zug up - |
A rough and uneven
cutting of anything. |
