Jamaica Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Associated with or special to Jamaica or Jamaican people, places, or things. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

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cast eye n. The Jamaica/Cuba Eye Care Programme is to target children who are affected with Strabismus, commonly referred to as “cast eye,” through an extensive outreach. [English Jamaica Medical] [full cite] (Aug. 7, 2007)

chi chi man n. In Jamaican patois slang, “batty man” and “chi chi man” are the equivalent of “poof” and “faggot.” [English English-based Creole Jamaica Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Jun. 26, 2004)

chi chi man n. Being gay or lesbian—a “chi-chi” man/gyal or a “battyman,”—is the ultimate sin in Jamaica, an island paradise so steeped in religion that it holds the Guinness Book of World Records title of having the most churches per square mile and where it is still legal to arrest two men caught having sex. [English English-based Creole Jamaica Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Jun. 26, 2004)

chi chi man n. 20. T.O.K. - Chi chi man. [English English-based Creole Jamaica Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Jun. 26, 2004)

chi chi man n. From dem a par inna chi chi man car/Blaze di fire mek we bun dem!!!! (Bun dem!!!!)/From dem a drink inna chi chi man bar/Blaze di fire mek we dun dem!!!! (Dun dem!!!!) [English English-based Creole Jamaica Sex & Sexuality Derogatory] [full cite] (Jun. 26, 2004)

dibby dibby adj. The first time I heard it was by a minibus conductor, who was arguing with a passenger. The woman had passed some remark, which the conductor was not pleased about. He told her to move herself from “[there]…yuh dibby dibby gal.” At that point she went into a rage.…What does it mean? “…means say you washy, wasy,” my friend Howard explains, “…no saying a thing…not desirable.” [ Language English Place Jamaica] [full cite] (Oct. 26, 2005)

dibby-dibby adj. The game, however, will not recapture its past glory if its leadership continues, in a Jamaican colloquialism, to be “dibby-dibby,” which is to say, lacking in character, worth and purposefulness. [ Language English Place Jamaica] [full cite] (Oct. 6, 2005)

dibby-dibby adj. An attack on the PNP’s rule during the 1970s, for example, is followed, to uproarious applause, by a description of Mr Manley’s team as a “dibby-dibby posse"—meaning something like “smart-arse.” [ Language English Place Jamaica] [full cite] (Oct. 26, 2005)

dibby-dibby adj. “Dibby-dibby” derives from a widely heard reggae tune about a girl with many boyfriends. It means fickle and indecisive. [ Language English Place Jamaica] [full cite] (Oct. 26, 2005)

dibby-dibby adj. In Jamaica, life and system so hard that people can hardly find the time to listen culture music. Then they play the dibby-dibby music so long for so many years now that it becomes part of the people that they don’t want to hear nothin’ else but the dibby. And it’s some kind of wrong thing going on down there with the people. [ Language English Place Jamaica] [full cite] (Oct. 26, 2005)

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