| word | meaning |
|---|---|
| A DOOR | outdoors. (5) |
| AGONY | the sensations felt during sex (6) |
| AN | than (5) |
| ARMAGEDDON | the biblical final battle between the forces of good and evil (1) |
| BABYLON | 1. the corrupt establishment, the "system, Church and State" 2. the police, a policeman (1) |
| BAD | good, great (2) |
| BADNESS | hooligan behavior, violence for its own sake (1) |
| BAFAN | clumsy; awkward (5) |
| BAFANG | a child who did not learn to walk the 1st 2-7 years. (5) |
| BAG-O-WIRE | a betrayer (1) |
| BAGGY | underpants for a woman or child. (5) |
| BAKRA | white slavemaster, or member of the ruling class in colonial days. Popular etymology: "back raw" (which he bestowed with a whip.) (5) |
| BALD-HEAD | a straight person; one without dreadlocks; one who works for babylon (2) |
| BAMBU | rolling paper (1) |
| BAMMY | a pancake made out of cassava, after it has been grated and squeezed to remove the bitter juice. (5) |
| BANDULU | bandit, criminal, one living by guile (1) a BANDULU BIZNESS is a racket, a swindle. (5) |
| BANGARANG | hubbub, uproar, disorder, disturbance. (5) |
| BANKRA | a big basket, including the type which hangs over the sides of a donkey. (5) |
| BANS | from bands; a whole lot, a great deal, nuff, whole heap. (5) |
| BAT | butterfly or moth. English bat, the flying rodent, is a rat-bat. (5) |
| BATTY | bottom; backside; anus. (5) |
| BATTYBWOY | a gay person (6) |
| BEAST | a policeman (1) |
| BEX | vex (verb), or vexed (adjective). (5) |
| BISSY | cola nut. (5) |
| BLY | chance, "must get a bly", "must get a chance". (4) |
| BOBO | fool. (5) |
| BRAA | from BREDDA; brother. (5) |
| BRAATA | a little extra; like the 13th cookie in a baker's dozen; or an extra helping of food. In musical shows it has come to be the encore. (5) |
| BREDREN | one's fellow male Rastas (1) |
| BRINDLE | to be angry (6) |
| BRINKS | title given to a man who is supplying a woman with money (6) |
| BUBU | fool. (5) |
| BUCKY | home-made gun (2) |
| BUFU-BUFU | fat, swollen, blubbery; too big; clumsy or lumbering.(5) |
| BUGUYAGA | a sloppy, dirty person, like a bum or tramp. (5) |
| BULL BUCKA | a bully (1) |
| BULLA | a comon sugar and flour cookie or small round cake, sold everywhere in Jamaica. (5) |
| BUMBA CLOT, (TO GET) BUN | to have one's spouse or girl/boy-friend cheat on oneself, to be cheated out of something (6) |
| RAS CLOT, BLOOD CLOT | curse words (1) |
| BUMBO | bottom; backside. A common curse word, especially in combination with CLOT (cloth), a reference to the days before toilet paper. (5) |
| BUNKS | to knock or bump against, from "to bounce", BUNKS MI RES, catch my rest, take a nap. (5) |
| (THE) CAT | a woman's genitals (6) |
| CARD | to fool someone (6) |
| CEASE & SEKKLE! | stop everything and relax! (6) |
| CERACE | a ubiquitous vine used for boiling medicinal tea and for bathing. It is proverbial for its bitterness.(5) |
| CHA! or CHO! | a disdainful expletive (1) pshaw! (2) very common, mild explanation expressing impatience, vexation or disappointment. (5) |
| CHAKA-CHAKA | messy, disorderly, untidy. (5) |
| CHALICE or CHILLUM | a pipe for smoking herb, usually made from coconut shell and tubing, used ritually by Rastas (1) |
| CHEAP | just as cheap, just as well. (5) |
| CHIMMY | chamber pot. (5) |
| CHO | very common, mild explanation expressing impatience, vexation or disappointment. (5) |
| CLAP | hit, break, stride (1) |
| CLOT | 1. cloth, an essential part of most Jamaican bad words, such as bumbo clot, rass clot, blood clot, etc. The essence of Jamaican cursing seems to be nastiness, rather than the blashemy or sexuality which is characteristic of the metropolitan countries. 2. to hit or strike - from the verb "to clout". (5) |
| COCO | a potato-like edible root, known elsewhere as the taro or the eddo. It was brought to Jamaica from the South Pacific. This is completely distinct from cocoa, usually called chocolate. (5) |
| COIL | money (6) |
| COME DUNG | come down, get ready (as to prepare to play a tune) (6) |
| COME EEN LIKE | to seem as if; to resemble. (5) |
| CONTROL | to be in charge of, responsible for, to own; to take (1) |
| COOL RUNNINGS | a greeting; things are going smoothly (1) |
| COOLIE | the traditional Jamaican epithet for East Indians. It is never used It is never used for Chinese Jamaicans. Usually in the form coolie-man or coolie-oman. It is not considered polite today anymore than the term nega, but it is still used widely in rural areas. (5) |
| CORK UP | jammed, filled, crowded (2) |
| CORN | 1. marijuana 2. money 3. a bullet (1) |
| COTCH | verb (cotch up), to support something else, as with a forked stick; to balance something or place it temporarily; to beg someone a cotch, can be a place on a crowded bus seat or bench; or it may mean to cotch a while, to stay somewhere temporarily. (5) |
| COTTA | a roll of cloth or vegetation placed on top of the head to cushion the skull from the weight of a head load. (5) |
| CRAB | aside from it's usual meaning, it is a verb meaning to scratch or claw. (5) |
| CRAVEN | greedy (5) |
| CRIS | crisp; popularly used for anything brand-new, slick-looking. (5) |
| CRISSARS | crisp, brand-new (2) |
| CROSSES | problems, vexations, trials; bad luck, misfortunes. (5) |
| CRUCIAL | serious, great, "hard", "dread" (1) |
| CUBBITCH | covetous. (5) |
| CULTURE | reflecting or pertaining to the roots values and traditions highly respected by the Rastas (1) |
| CUSS-CUSS | a quarrel or fracas, with lots of cursing. (5) |
| CUT YAI | to cut your eye at somebody is a very common means of expressing scorn or contempt, for example; one catches the other person's eye, then deliberatly turns one's own eyes as an insult. (5) |
| CUTCHIE | pipe for communal smoking. (5) |
| CYAAN | cannot, can't (6) |
| D.J. | a person who sings or scats along with dub music, sometimes called "toasting" (2) |
| DAAL | split peas, usually a thick soup, from Indian cuisine, from Hindi. (5) |
| DADA | father (6) |
| DALLY | executive zig-zag movements on wheels (2) or on foot (6) to ride a bicycle or motorbike with a weaving motion, as when ones weaves around potholes. (5) |
| DAN DADA | the highest of DON'S (6) |
| DAN | than (5) |
| DARKERS | sunglasses (6) |
| DASHEEN | a big soft yam-like root, often slightly greyish when cooked. It is related to the coco, but one eats the "head" instead of the tubers. (5) |
| DAWTA | a girl, woman, "sister", girlfriend (1) |
| DEADERS | meat, meat by-products (1) |
| DEESTANT | decent. (5) |
| DEGE or DEGE-DEGE | adjective, little, skimpy, measly, only, as in a two dege-dege banana. (5) |
| DEH | there (place) (6) |
| DI | the (6) |
| DINKI | a kind of traditional dance at funerals or "nine nights" ("set-ups"); now popular among school children. (5) |
| DIS or DIS YA | this (6) |
| DJEW | as a verb, rain a djew; as a noun, djew rain. It means a light rain or drizzle. (5) |
| DOGHEART | a person who is especially cold and cruel (6) |
| DOLLY | executive zig-zag movements on wheels (2) |
| DON | one who is respected, master of a situation (6) |
| DONKYA | from "don't care"; careless, sloppy, lacking ambition, etc. (5) |
| DOONDOOS | an albino. (5) |
| DOWNPRESSOR | preferred term for oppressor (1) |
| (TO) DRAW CARD | the act of fooling someone (6) |
| DREAD | 1. a person with dreadlocks 2. a serious idea or thing 3. a dangerous situation or person 4. the "dreadful power of the holy" 5. experientially, "awesome, fearful confrontation of a people with a primordial but historically denied racial selfhood" (1) |
| DREADLOCKS | 1. hair that is neither combed nor cut 2. a person with dreadlocks (1) |
| DREADY | a friendly term for a fellow dread (1) |
| DUB | a roots electronic music, created by skillful, artistic re-engineering of recorded tracks (2) |
| DUCK-ANTS | white ants, or termites. (5) |
| DUKUNU | sweet corn-meal dumplings boiled in wrapped leaves. (5) |
| DUNDUS | an albino. (5) |
| DUNS,DUNSA | money (1) |
| DUPPY | a ghost (1) |
| DUTCHY | dutch cooking pot, low round-bottomed heavy pot. (5) |
| EASE-UP | to forgive, to lighten up (6) |
| EVERYTING COOK & CURRY | all is well, all is taken care of (6) |
| FAS' | to be fast with, meaning to be rude, impertinent, to meddle with sombody's business, to be forward, etc. (5) |
| FASSY | eczema-like scratchy sores on the skin; also a verb meaning to cause oneself to be covered with fassy by scratching. (5) |
| FAYVA | to favour, resemble, or look like; "fayva like" also means "it seems as if". (5) |
| FEEL NO WAY | don't take offense, don't be sorry, don't worry (1) |
| FENKY-FENKY | (from finicky) choosy, proud, stuck-up. (5) |
| FIESTY | impudent, rude, out of order, cheeky. (5) |
| FIRST LIGHT | tomorrow (1) |
| (HIM A) FISH | a gay person (6) |
| FIT | when used of fruits and vegetables, it means ready to pick, full grown, though not necessarily fully ripe. (5) |
| FORWARD | 1. to go, move on, set out 2. in the future (1) |
| FRONTA | tobacco leaf used to roll herb (1) |
| FUCKERY | wrong, unfair (6) |
| FULLNESS, TO THE FULLNESS | completely, absolutely, totally (1) |
| FUNDS | Money (6) |
| GAAN TO BED | an adverbial phrase; following a verb of liking or loving, it has a superlative meaning; Can be used in any context, such as "I love hafu yam gaan to bed!". (5) |
| GANJA | herb, marijuana (1) |
| GANSEY | t-shirt, any knit shirt (2) |
| (TO) GET SALT | to be thwarted, to encounter misfortune (6) |
| GATES | home, yard (1) |
| GENERAL | cool operator (1) |
| GIG | spinning top. (5) |
| GLAMITY | a woman's genitals (6) |
| GORGON | outstanding dreadlocks (1) |
| (DON) GORGON | outstanding dreadlocks, a person who is respected (2,6) |
| GRAVALICIOUS | greedy, avaricious. (5) |
| GRINDSMAN | one who displays great prowess in bed(6) |
| GROUNATION | large, island-wide meeting and celebration of Rastas (1) |
| GROUND | home, yard (4) |
| HACKLE | to hassle, bother, worry, trouble. As a noun, hackling. (5) |
| HAFFI | to have to... (6) |
| HAIL | a greeting (1) |
| HARD | excellent, proficient, skillful, uncompromising (1) |
| HEETCH | itch. Many such words could be listed under H, as initial H is added to scores of words at will. (5) |
| HERB | marijuana (1) |
| HIEZ-HAAD | ears-hard, thick skulled, stubborn, unwilling or unable to hear. (5) |
| HIEZ | ears. (5) |
| HITEY-TITEY | upper class, high tone, "stoosh". (5) |
| HOOD | penis. (5) |
| HORTICAL (DON) | respected, acclaimed (6) |
| HOT-STEPPER | fugitive from jail or gun court (1) |
| I-MAN | I, me, mine (1) |
| I-NEY | a greeting (2) |
| I-REY | 1. a greeting 2. excellent, cool, highest (1) |
| I-SHENCE | herb (1) |
| I-TAL | vital, organic, natural, wholesome; refers to way of cooking and way of life (1) in colors, red, green and gold (2) |
| I | replaces "me", "you", "my"; replaces the first syllable of seleted words (1) I and I, I&I& I, me, you and me, we (1) Rastafari speech eliminates you, me we, they, etc., as divisive and replaces same with communal I and I. I and I embraces the congregation in unity with the Most I (high) in an endless circle of inity (unity). (3) |
| IEZ-HAAD | ears-hard, thick skulled, stubborn, unwilling or unable to hear. (5) |
| IEZ | ears. (5) |
| IGNORANT | short-tempered, easy to vex, irate. (5) |
| INNA DI MORROWS | tomorrow (6) |
| INNA | In the (4) |
| ISMS and SKISMS | negative term denoting Babylon's classificatory systems (1) |
| ITES | 1. the heights 2. a greeting 3. the color red (1) great (2) |
| JA, JAM-DOWN | Jamaica (1) |
| JACKASS ROPE | homegrown tobacco, twisted into a rope. (5) |
| JAH KNOW | Lord knows (1) |
| JAH | God; possibly derived as a shortened form of Jahweh or Jehovah (1) Jah Ras Tafari, Haille Selassie, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, conquering Lion of Judah; rastas revere Haile Selassie as the personification of the Almighty (2) |
| JAMMIN | to be having a good time, to be dancing calypso/soca (6) |
| JANGA | shrimp, crayfish. (5) |
| JELLY | a young coconut, full of jelly. (5) |
| JOOK | to pierce or stick, as with a thorn or a long pointed stick. (5) |
| JUDGIN' | adjective, everyday or ordinary clothes or shoes worn in the yard or in the bush, as in "judgin' boot". Also as a verb, to judge, with a similar meaning. (5) |
| JUU | as a verb, rain a juu; as a noun, juu rain. It means a light rain or drizzle. (5) |
| KALI; COOLY | marijuana (1) |
| KALLALOO | a dark, green leafy vegetable, very nutritious and cheap. (5) |
| KATA | a roll of cloth or vegetation placed on top of the head to cushion the skull from the weight of a head load. (5) |
| KEMPS | a little bit, a tiny piece, from skimps. (5) |
| KISS ME NECK! | common exclamation of surprise. (5) |
| KISS TEET | to kiss one's teeth or to suck one's teeth is to make the very common hissing noise of disappoval, dislike, vexation or disappointment. (5) |
| KOUCHIE | bowl of a chalice or chillum pipe (1) |
| KRENG-KRENG | an old-fashioned meat rack, hung up high over the fire to catch the smoke. (5) |
| KU DEH! | look there! (5) |
| KU PAN | look at. (5) |
| KU YA! | look here! (5) |
| KU | verb, look! (5) |
| KYA | 1. to care; "donkya", don't care, careless; "no kya" means no matter, as in "no kya weh im tun", no matter where he turns. 2. to carry. (5) |
| KYAAN | can't. (5) |
| KYAI | to carry. (5) |
| KYAN | can. (5) |
| LABA-LABA | to chat, gab; gossip. (5) |
| LABRISH | gossip, chit-chat. (5) |
| LAMBSBREAD | a form of high-quality marijuana (1) |
| LARGE | respected (6) |
| LEGGO BEAS' | wild, disorderly, like a let-go beast. (5) |
| LICKY-LICKY | fawning, flattering, obsequious. (5) |
| LILLY BIT | little bit, tiny. (5) |
| LION | a righteous Dread (1) a great soul (2) |
| LITTLE MORE | see you later (2) |
| (TOO) LIKKY-LIKKY | title given to those who like to eat any food they encounter , without discretion (6) |
| MAAMA MAN | a gay person, an effeminate man, a weakling (6) |
| MACA | thorn, prickle. (5) |
| MADDA | mother (6) |
| MAFIA | big-time criminals (1) |
| MAGA DOG | mongrel (4) |
| MAGA | thin (2) (from meagre) (5) |
| MARINA | a man's undershirt, guernsey; a tank-top style. (5) |
| MASCOT | denoting inferior status (2) |
| MASH IT UP | a huge success (1) |
| MASH UP, MASH DOWN | destroy (1) |
| MASSIVE | respected (6), used with LARGE to add emphasis |
| MONKS | amongst. (5) |
| MORE TIME | see you later (1) |
| MR. T | the boss (2) |
| MUS MUS | a rat (4) |
| MY BABY MOTHER / FATHER | the mother/father of my child (1,6) |
| NANA | midwife; nanny or nurse. (5) |
| NASH | female genatalia (6) |
| NATTY, NATTY DREAD, NATTY CONGO | 1. dreadlocks 2. a person with dreadlocks (1) |
| NAZARITE | Ancient Hebrew meaning to "separate", consecrated, set apart by choice and devotion (1) |
| NIYABINGHI | 1. "death to all black and white oppressors" 2. East African warriors who resisted colonial domination 3. large Rastafarian meeting and spiritual gathering 4. referring to orthodox, traditional Rastas 5. a variety of drumming (1) |
| NIYAMEN | name for Rastas referring to Niyabinghi warriors of East Africa (1) |
| NO KYA | no matter, as in "no kya weh im tun", no matter where he turns. (5) |
| NO TRUE? | isn't it so? (1) |
| NYAM | to eat. (5) |
| (TOO) NYAMI-NYAMI | title given to those who like to eat any food they encounter, without discretion (6) |
| NYING'I-NYING'I | nagging, whining. (5) |
| O-DOKONO | boiled maize bread. (5) |
| OBEAH | traditional African "science", relating to matters of the spirit and spirits, spells, divinations, omens, extra-sensory knowledge, etc. (5) |
| OHT FI | about to, on the vergeof, as in "it hoht fi rain", it is about to rain, it looks like rain. (5) |
| ONE LOVE | a parting phrase, expression of unity (1) |
| ONE-ONE | adjective, one by one, thus any small amount. (5) |
| ONGLE | only. (5) |
| PAKI | calabash, gourd. (5) |
| PAPAA | pawpaw, or papaya melon. (5) |
| PATU | owl. (5) |
| PEEL-HEAD | bald-headed, usually certain chickens or vultures. (5) |
| PEENYWALLY | a kind of large fire fly, actually a type of flyig beetle. (5) |
| PEER | avocado pear. (5) |
| PICKY, PICKY HEAD | brush haircut (3) |
| PICKY-PICKY | 1. finicky or choosy 2. Used of uncombed hair just starting to turn into dreadlocks. (5) |
| PIKNY | pickaninny, child. (5) |
| PINDA | peanut. (5) |
| PIRA | a low wooden stool. (5) |
| PITY-ME-LIKL | a type of very tiny red ant whose bite is so hot and long-lasting it resembles a sting. (5) |
| POCOMANIA, POCO | christian revival, distinct drum rhythm (2) |
| POLYTRICKS | politics (by Peter Tosh) (6) |
| POLYTRICKSTERS | politicians (by Peter Tosh) (6) |
| POPPY-SHOW | from puppet show, it is used in the idiom, tek smadi mek poppy-show, which means to make fun of someone or shame them, making them look ridiculous. (5) |
| PUM-PUM | a woman's genitals (6) |
| PUNAANI or PUNNI | a woman's genitals (6) |
| PUPPALICK | somersalt. (5) |
| PUTTIN' AWAY | a preposition, meaning "except for", or "except". (5) |
| PYAA-PYAA | sickly, weak; feeble, of no account. (5) |
| PYU | from spew; verb used of running sores or anything similarly dripping or oozing. (5) |
| QUIPS | 1. nouns (from squips) a tiny piece or amount. 2. verb, the Jamaican art of washing clothes making a "squips-squips" sound. (5) |
| RAATID! | a common mild expletive of surprise or vexation, as in "to raatid!". It is likely a polite permutation of "ras", a la "gosh" or "heck". (5) |
| RANKING | highly respected (1) |
| RAS or RASS | backside, rump; a common curse is to rass! or rass clot! a title used by Rastafarians meaning "lord" or "head". (5) |
| (TO) RAAS | "really?", "damn!"(6) |
| RASTA, RASTAFARIAN | a follower of Marcus Garvey who worships the Almighty in the person of haile Selassie |
| RAT-BAT | bat, the night-flying rodent. (5) |
| RATCHET | a switchblade knife popular in Jamaica (1) |
| RED | 1. very high on herb 2. mulatto color (1) |
| RENK | 1. foul-smelling, raw-smelling. 2. out of order, impudent, as in a rank-imposter. "Yu too renk!". (5) |
| RHAATID | a curse-exclamation, similar to "what the hell" (6) |
| ROCKERS | reggae music (1) reggae music as it is played today, the latest sound (2) |
| ROOTS | 1. derived from the experience of the common people, natural indigenous 2. a greeting 3. name for a fellow Rasta (1) |
| ROTI | flat Indian pan breads. (5) |
| RUDE BOY | a criminal, a hard hearted person, a tough guy (6) |
| RUN-DUNG | food cooked in coconut juice, obtained after grating the dry coconut meat and squeezing it in water, thus extracting the coconut cream. (5) |
| RYAL | royal. (5) |
| SAL'TING | 1. dishes cooked with saltfish or meat. 2. that part of the meal which is served with the "fod" (starchy food, ground food). 3. by some strange extension, the female organ, often simply called "sal". (5) |
| SALT | adjective, broke, empty-handed, low on funds or food, as in "tings salt" or "i' salt". (5) |
| SAMBO | the colour between brown and black; someone who is a cross between a mullatto (brown) and a black. (5) |
| SAMFAI MAN | trickster, conman. (5) |
| SATA | to rejoice, to meditate, to give thanks and praise. (5) |
| SATTA | sit, rest, meditate (1) relax (6) |
| SCIENCE | obeah, witchcraft (1) |
| SCIENTIST | occult practitioner (2) |
| SCOUT | denoting inferior status (6) |
| SCREECHIE | to sneak by (6) |
| SCREW | to scowl, to be angry (1) |
| SEEN | I understand, I agree (1) |
| SEEN? | Do you understand? (6) |
| SHAG | home-cured tobacco, straight from the field. (5) |
| SHAKE OUT | leave without haste, casually (2) |
| SHEG (UP) | verb, to bother, as in "all sheg up", all hot and bothered, or or spoiled up (as of work). (5) |
| SHEG-UP | to be messed up, ruined (6) |
| SHOOB | to shove. (5) |
| SIDUNG | sit down (6) |
| SIGHT? | do you understand? (1) |
| SINKL-BIBLE | the aloevera plant. (5) |
| SINSEMILLA, SENSIE | popular, potent, seedless, unpollinated female strain of marijuana (1) |
| SINTING | something. (5) |
| SIPPLE | slippery; slimy. (5) |
| SISTER, SISTREN | a woman, a friend, woman Rastafarians (1) |
| SITTIN' | something. (5) |
| SKANK | to dance to reggae music (1) to move with cunning, ulterior motives (2) |
| SKIL | kiln, as in "limeskil". (5) |
| SKIN | rolling paper (1) |
| SKIN YOUR TEETH | smile (1) |
| SLABBA-SLABBA | big and fat, slobby, droopy. (5) |
| SLACKNESS | lewd, vulgar lyrics popular in DJ singing (4) |
| SMADI | somebody. (5) |
| SO-SO | only, solely, unaccompanied. (5) weak, pallid (6) |
| SOFT | not well done, amateurish; unable to cope (1) broke, no money (2) |
| SPLIFF | large, cone-shaped marijuana cigarette (1) |
| SPRING | to sprout, as of yams or cocos, making them inedible. (5) |
| STAR | common term of affection, camaraderie (1) |
| STEP | to leave, to depart (1) briskly, quickly (2) |
| STOOSH/STOSHUS | upper class, high tone, "hitey-titey". (5) |
| STRING UP | a muscial rehearsal (2) |
| STRUCTURE | body, health (1) |
| SU-SU | gossip, the sound of wispering. (5) |
| SUFFERER | a poor person stuggling to survive (2) |
| SUPM, SINTING | something (6) |
| TACK | bullet (2) |
| TAKARI/TANKARI | stewed spicy pumpkin. (5) |
| TALL | long (1) |
| TAM | deep woolen hat, used by Dreads to cover their locks (1,6) |
| TAN' | to stand; usually used in the sense of "to be". "A so im tan", "that is what he is like"; "tan deh!" or "yu tan deh!" means "just you wait!". "Tan tedy", stand steady, means "hold still". (5) |
| TARRA-WARRA | a polite way of expressing omitted bad words, a verbal asterisk. (5) |
| TATU | a little thatched hut, often made of bamboo. (5) |
| TEETH | bullets (2) |
| TEIF | a theif, to steal (6) |
| TOTO | coconut cake. (5) |
| TRACE | to curse or speak abusively to someone. (5) |
| TRANSPORT | vehicle (1) |
| TUMPA | from stump, as in "tumpa-foot man", a one-foot man. (5) |
| TUNTI | female organ. (5) |
| UNO/UNU | you-all. (5) |
| UPFUL | postitive, encouraging (2) |
| UPHILL | positive, righteous (1) |
| UPTOWN | the upper classes (1) |
| VEX | to get angry (1) |
| WA DAY | adverbial phrase, the other day. (5) |
| WA MEK? | why? |
| WAKL | wattle, a kind of woven bamboo work used to make house walls. (5) |
| WANGA-GUT | hungry-belly. (5) |
| WARRA-WARRA | politely omitted bad words, same as "tarra-warra". (5) |
| WH'APPEN? | what's happening? (4) |
| WHEELS | vehicle (6) |
| WHOLE HEAP | a lot (1) |
| WINJY | thin and sickly looking. (5) |
| WIS | vine, liana, from withe. (5) |
| WOLF | a non-rasta deadlocks (2) |
| WOOD | penis. (5) |
| YA NO SEE IT? | you know? (1) |
| YA | hear, or here. (5) |
| YABBA | a big clay pot. (5) |
| YAHSO | here (place) (6) |
| YAI | eye. (5) |
| YARD | home, one's gates (1) tenement (2) |
| YOUTH | a child, a young man, an immature man (1) |
| ZION | Ethiopia, Africa, the Rastafarian holy land (1) |
| ZUNGU PAN | zinc pan. (5) |