The f-word season premiere takes us to the f section of the dictionary of jamaican english (2002). there we encounter such doozies as a valuable synonym for truthiness, what it’ll cost you (in shillings) to utter an obscenity around the authorities, and what to yell in a crowded bar when you are thirsty for your third slippery nipple and nobody is paying any attention to you. let’s investigate!
fact-and-a-half · a lie
fanggandanggas · elaborate or fussy decoration
fast-fast mouth · rude-mouthed
fattoon · a very fat person
feenky-feenky · cowardly, effeminate, prone to tears
fire down town · a demand for rapid and generous service
florence · a temporary bed on the floor
flululups · things of little value
flying horse · in schoolboy parlance: a bent pin or similar sharp device placed on a chair as a practical joke
force-ripe · said with unfavourable connotation of young people acting like adults
forty-shilling word · any indecent word for the saying of which one may be fined forty shillings
funniakin · not good looking
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fact-and-a-half ·...lie fanggandanggas · elaborate or fussy decoration fast-fast mouth ·...
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