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Fufuo meaning white and referring to the Akan dish which is a pounded into a paste of white yam and cassava. white yam Ginal Akan (Ashanti Twi) Gyegyefuo, Gyegyeni. Someone that is not taken seriously, a stupid person. A con-man (in Jamaica only) Kaba-kaba Yoruba, Akan, Ewe "unreliable, inferior, worthless" [11] Kete Asante-Akan Aburukwa
Female patois speaker saying two sentences A Jamaican Patois speaker discussing the usage of the language. Jamaican Patois (/ ˈ p æ t w ɑː /; locally rendered Patwah and called Jamaican Creole by linguists) is an English-based creole language with influences from West African, Arawak, Spanish and other languages, spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora.
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Jamaican English is a mix of British influence, Rastafarian vocabulary and Patois – a dialect shaped by West African idioms mixed with English, which is spoken by a majority of the people.
While some people call it Gen Z slang or Gen Z lingo, these words actually come from Black culture, and their adoption among a wider group of people show how words and phrases from Black ...
Slang like GYAT can start a conversation or be shorthand to get around electronic character limits. Burke says GYAT is not an insult. “If someone says, “Wow you have a GYAT” it doesn’t ...
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(US) A rural person with a "glorious lack of sophistication" (from the slang term for "peanut") Guajiro (Cuba) A rural person from Cuba. Hillbilly (US) A rural white person, esp. one from Appalachia or the Ozarks. Redneck (US) A rural white person. There are varying possible etymologies for this term. Primarily used to denote lower-class rural ...