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raw smell

To have a raw smell, especially raw meat or egg or fish.

Patois: Di egg deh raw, yuh nuh bwile it well.
English: The egg smells raw, you did not boil it well.

allow

It means to allow.

Patois: Lou dem informa fi guh weh fram yah
English: Allow those snitches to go away from here.

A fat or obsessed person.

A fat or obsessed person.

Patois: Luk 'ow waga waga im tun.
English: Look how fat he has become.

When troubles catches up with you, a child's shirt fits you.

When you are caught up in a really difficult situation, you find yourself doing desperate things you never expected.

A simple and straightforward proverb, the equivalent saying in English is "Desperate situations call for desperate measures".

Patois: Yuh cyaan duh noh'n bout it fi now, suh yuh jus haffi run wid wah im did tel yuh. Memba seh wen chubble kech yuh, pikni shut fit yuh.
English: You cannot do anything about it now, you just have to accept what he told you. Remember that desperate situations call for desperate measures.

A gift or present.

A gift or present.

Patois: Mi 'ave nott'n fi yuh, buh tek dis likkle tenky massa
English: I have nothing for you, but take this little gift