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1. abeng, n. View full entry 1890
...A type of bugle made from a cow horn, used by the maroons as a musical instrument and to send signals....
2. Babylon, n.2 View full entry 1530
...derogatory. The city of Rome as the seat of the Pope and the centre of authority of the Roman Catholic Church; (more generally) the Roman Catholic Church, its institutions, practices, etc....
3. balm, n.2 View full entry 1897
...A faith-healing ceremony typically involving drumming, dancing, and ritual feasting; a herbal bath or other treatment administered during this. Also: the practice of performing such ceremonies or treatments. Cf. Pocomania...
4. bangarang, n. View full entry 1935
...Rubbish; miscellaneous items. Now rare....
5. bashment, n.2 View full entry 1996
...An event or party, esp. one featuring dancehall reggae or ragga music. Also (now usually): an up-tempo style of popular music derived from dancehall reggae and ragga, but with a...
6. bayberry, n. View full entry 1578
...The fruit of the bay-tree....
7. black, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, and a small hole in a hollow object; of or having this colour; (also)...
8. bloodclaat, n., adj., and int. View full entry 1956
...A sanitary towel....
9. blue, adj. and n. View full entry c1300
...Of a colour of the spectrum intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or deep sea on a clear day....
10. burru, n. View full entry 1929
...A kind of vigorous, popular, and sometimes indecent, dance; the music, esp. drumming, used to accompany this....
11. cotch, n. View full entry 1914
...A place (esp. a small or confined space) to sleep, rest, or sit temporarily. Cf. cotch1....
12. cotch, v. View full entry 1895
...intr.Jamaican....
13. criss, adj. View full entry 1952
...Stiff; not pliable....
14. dubplate, n. View full entry 1976
...An acetate or test pressing of a vinyl record; (originally) spec. one featuring a dub version of a reggae song (cf. dub1). Now also: an advance copy...
15. Dutch, adj., n., and adv. View full entry c1380
...Of or relating to the people of Germany; German. Obs. exc. as a historical archaism, and in some parts of U.S.: see B. 1 and Dutchman...
16. dutchie, n. View full entry 1943
...More fully dutchie pot. = Dutch potDutch....
17. facety, adj. View full entry 1928
...Impudent, arrogant, rude; excessively bold or feisty....
18. facey, adj. View full entry 1929
...Bold; impertinent. Cf. facety...
19. galapee, n. View full entry 1756
...Either of two Jamaican trees of the family Araliaceae, Schefflera sciadophyllum and Dendropanax arboreus. Also galapee tree....
20. gaulin, n. View full entry a1705
...A kind of egret....
