Gay in jamaican slang
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The Jamaican Creole phrase often spelled batty man, pronounced ['bati'man] (also botty boy ['bati'bwai]), would be more easily interpreted by other English speakers if it were spelled botty man, since the first element is botty, a familiar British hypocorism for bottom. (My point about the spelling is not a prescriptive one; I'm merely pointing out that the first syllable sounds like Usual English bot, not bat.) The literal meaning of the phrase into American English would be "butt man" or "ass man", and the free translation is "homosexual" (trading, of course, on the juvenile assumption that all gays are ever interested in is bottoms). The statement appeared in a observe near the naked corpse of John Terry, start at his home in Montego Bay last week. It saddened me to see, in a week when one country atoned just a little for its homophobic past with a genuine apology from its government, another nation continuing to forge a place for itself in the annals of intolerance and moral backwardness.
John Terry was a British citizen with three children who had been separated from his wife for three years. He had lived for fo
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English TranslationHomosexual
Related WordsBow , Buddy , Bun , c**k it up ,
posted by anonymous on December 26, 2023
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English TranslationGay
DefinitionSomeone who acts like they are gay or actually is gay
Example SentencesPatois: Look how di gentleman a move like batty man, bredda
English: Look how the man acts fancy he is gay, bro
Related WordsHot Steppa , Bait , Chi chi , f**kery ,
posted by jordan.barrett.7758 on May 24, 2014
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English TranslationF**got
DefinitionDerogatory term used to refer to a lesbian male. The patois phrase “batty” means buttocks in Standard English; hence the term “batty man” gets its meaning from the fact that homosexual males engage in anal sex. When referring to a homosexual w
Rasta/Patois Dictionary and Phrases/Proverbs
A : prep. to as in "go a shop," from Spanish (7) A GO : aux w/v. going to do, as in "Me a go tell him" (7) A DOOR : outdoors. (5) ACCOMPONG : n. name of Maroon warrior, Capt. Accompong, brother of Cudjo; also name of town. From the Twi name for the supreme deity (7) ACKEE : n. African sustenance tree introduced about 1778. From Twiankye or Kru akee (7) AGONY : the sensations felt during sex (6) AKS : ask (28) ALIAS : adj. (urban slang) perilous, violent (7) AMSHOUSE : poorhouse (29) AN : than (5) ARMAGEDDON : the biblical final battle between the forces of fine and evil (1) ASHAM : n. Parched, sweetened, and ground corn. From twiosiam (7) BABYLON : 1. the corrupt establishment, the "system," Church and State 2. the police, a policeman (1) BAD : good, great (2) BAD BWAI : (bad boy) 1. refering to a bold man; a compliment 2. One who has committed a crime. (rude bwai, ruddy, baddy) (31) BADNESS : hooligan behavior, violence for its own sake (1) BAFAN : clumsy; awkward (5) BAFANG : a kid who did not grasp to walk the 1st 2-7 years. (5) BAG- .