Babash - see Mountain dew
Bacchanal - Large noisy happening, scandal, big party, confusion
Bachac – The leaf cutter ant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leafcutter_ant
Back - Usage:
Back Squeeze - To hold back, e.g. “Ah back squeeze ah lil’change.” (I save some money)
Back back – To reverse. E.g. “Doh back back on me”
Back chat – Insolent response- usually from a subordinate to a superior or child to an elder
Back, Belly and Side- To get it from all sides, usually criticism of some kind
Backside – Posterior, your rear end, buttocks. {also boom boom, background, boomsie, behind
Bad – Usage:
Bad Drive - Reckless driving
Bad eye (or cut eye ) - To look at somebody with slitted eyes
Bad-John – A worthless character- always ready to fight; a bully.
Bad lucky - Unlucky
Bad mine - Bad mind, evil thoughts
Bakra Johnnie – Fair skinned African with blond hair
Bambam, Bamsee – Posterior, your rear end- your derriere, buttocks.
Bam Bam Head – Somebody who has no common sense
Bamboozle – To con someone
Bamsee Lambe – A rather attractive posterior
Bath suit - Swim suit
Bazodee – Totally confused, drunk, light headed, half silly, e.g. “De blow make he bazodee” - The blow knocked him semi conscious
Bawl – Usage: To Bawl Dong De Place – To cry excessively; to be in a state of grief.
Beh beh - Stupid
Behin’ - behind
Usage:
Behin’ God Back - A very distance place. Such as the remotest part of the country.
Behin’ Yuh Back- In your absence.
Bekaneg - An albino
Better Yuhself - (Better yourself) – To improve your financial and social condition.
Baigan – Eggplant or melongene
Big Gooms /Goomps – A large sized marble approx’ 3-4 cm
Bite up – To be in a quarrelsome mood, e.g: “How yuh bite up so today?”
Blank – To ignore somebody, e.g: “How yuh blankin’ meh so?”
Blight – A person who brings bad luck.
Blighted – Being bad lucky
Blofo - A very fat person, e.g.: “Dat gyul eh fat, she blofo!”
Blues – A Trinidad and Tobago $100 dollar note; also pornography.
Blood Eh Take – To instinctively dislike, or distrust someone.
Bloomin’ France - An expression of anger, substitution for foul language.
Bobolee – A person who is being taken advantage of
Boboloops – Grossly overweight, obese, or fat person.
Bodi - Long bean that grows on a vine
Bokee – The act of hitting someone’s knuckles hard by pitching a marble.
Bois Bande - Bark of a tree of same name, used to make a tea brew which is alleged to have aphrodisiac powers
Bol’ face – (Bold face) A pushy person, unreasonably demanding.
Boo Boo Man – A bogey man, A scary person e.g De boo boo man go come fuh yuh if you eh behave
Boof up – To insult somebody
Bounce – Usage: Bounce meh nah- Usually said when walking in front of a car in the road ( jaywalking and daring the driver).
Bowgee – (East Indian derivative) Sister-in-law
Bragadang – A sound…like a breadfruit falling on a galvanized roof.
Bram – Sound of something falling or something or someone getting hit; also, a rowdy fete, act of pressing clothes quickly
Break away – Dance wildly to a calypso tune
Bright – Intelligent, knowledgeable, smart
Brokes – Have no money, e.g. “Ah totally brokes today.”
Brokofoot – A person walking with a limp or physically challenged person.
Broughtupsy – Upbringing, conduct, character
Brush – To have sexual intercourse
Brudder – Brother
Buh wait nah – Wait a minute, now hold it right there
Bush Bath – A mixture of the extract of certain bushes which is added to the bath water in order to stop a period of bad luck or to reverse a sickness
Buss – Usage:
De business gone buss - To go broke
He buss he brains studyin’ las’ night – To study hard
Buss yuh tail – To fall down, or to get a beating.
Buss d’ mark – Refers to when the “mark”(the number/symbol) is revealed in the local gambling game called “whe whe” (now commercialized and called Play Whe)
Buss-Up-Shut - Synonymous for Paratha Roti because of the way the roti looks ripped up when done.








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