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Murder

Patois: Sumady murda mi dawg!
English: Somebody murdered my dog!

Mister

Patois: Missah Bown, wah happin to yuh yesideh?
English: Mister Brown, what happened to you yesterday?

a lot of

An expression commonly used to address a group of persons or things. The literal translation is 'a bag of'.

Patois: Yuh a chat bagga nonsense
English: You are talking a lot of nonsense.

Rastafarian

Slang expression used to refer to a persons that wears dreadlocks and is a Rastafarian

Patois: When did yuh become a rasta?
English: When did you become a Rastafarian?

The act of trapping someone in a romantic relationship using a Jamaican dark magic called obeah. This type of sorcery is practice mostly by women in order to keep their partners in a relationship because of financial or other perceived benefits.

Patois: Shi nuh good fi mi but mi cyaan leff har; mi wonda if shi tie mi
English: She’s not good for me but I can’t leave her; I wonder if she has cast a spell on me