12 WORDS JAMAICANS INVENTED

[@marshabenedict8041]

The black community in Costa Rica and other countries in Central America use a lot of these words...after all we are Jamaican/ Caribbean descendants. Love us all! Jah bless!!!

[@garfieldhamil9627]

Ms Grant - Barrette was my high school teacher. It was refreshing to see her in a new role and still imparting knowledge.

[@colleenhenry-bs6ij]

Me love how she explain everything!!

[@naturalmystics-kd9vt]

You are a great Jamaican man because our history is dieing and those old ways are the best days of our life

[@kareemsquest]

Thanks we Jamaicans have a very strong history

[@YaadandOvaSoh]

​@@kareemsquest it is left to us to preserve it, as we are losing it. Thank you.

[@gracesibley2641]

Yes tanxxx fih yuh comment 😊you’re so right the new generation needs to value our culture their culture ❤even this idea of embracing everytinggg American including the food it’s really scary because wih have a rich culture that needs to continue into every generation 😊❤❤

[@OppoleneChambers]

A good Jamaican Christmas to you all ..Reading this 12/25/24..Love , Respect and Blessings.🇯🇲💯❤️​@@gracesibley2641

[@warriorchild2521]

I know a little girl 👧🏿 who was always late ⏰ for School 🏫 but Never received, a “beating from any Teachers/Principals etc…The reason was she was living with her Stepmother and her father 🧑…( I think her mother had passed away). The Stepmother Children were always early, never late ⏰, well put together..Sometimes she would be Carrying Water 💦 for the home 🏠 , in. The morning while her Siblings were dressed nicely and early for School…also she would have to be doing the housework etc..All the Teachers and Principal knew and to top it off she,would still have to take care of her Siblings at School 🏫..Sometimes,She would just put her head on the desk and sleep 😴 ..So tired 😴 and the Teacher would let her be..One of Teachers sent a message to her Parents, to let them that she was Sleeping in the Class etc…And what her Step mother did was to give her Coffee ☕️ to drink in the Mornings,..even black Coffee)Smh.. I felt so bad for her that we Started to help her with her Siblings…Very nice quiet Girl, She was such a very Nice Person,very kind,always smiling 😊.. She was a Sickly Person, Asthmatic/ Pneumonia ..battled depression. She was so brilliant , despite she had no time to Study 📖..her Memory was so good 😊 ..She would come first in the Class every time..😂❤..We would be asking her for answers 😂😂in our School work etc.. She was the Only Person I knew that Passed every Scholarships that she took..She was just Naturally brilliant…even when she skipped Classes,

[@kareemsquest]

Wow very nice story

[@truthandjustice.1182]

She reminds me of my sister.. The wicked step mother that my stupid father brought in our life let she have to run away at the age of 14 and a man that could be her grandpa take her and promise her a job her breed off my sister at the age of 14.. My sister is so smart. She still read off one book a day. She is now in her late 60s and her kids she have in England are doctor, lawyers and engineers.. To this day we talked about that evil woman..

[@gloriarobinson1869]

@Warriorchild. She was gifted. Heavenly Father was guiding her, it happened a lot, the pampered child/children would end up achieving less than her. Karma is effective.

[@viviennegrant307]

Memories. Sad and painful yet we can smile for hope, the love of our fellowmen and the Spirit within and outside of us which make us conquerors and allow good to rise over evil.

[@IolaDrummond]

Explore Jamaica magazine is what I would love to receive. Where in MoBay can I find a copy?

[@lildavid7571]

Love this intelligent lady's personality

[@territory7153]

I’m a cancer survivor stage 4 hallelujah. Your a beautiful woman god bless you

[@sheronjohnson2041]

Please pray for others cause you know what its all about🙏🏼🙏🏼💯

[@kareemsquest]

Oh wow congratulations to you. more life in abundance

[@viviennegrant307]

Hallelujah!

[@territory7153]

@@kareemsquest amen I receive that blessings

[@Ernest-gz6vr]

I AM 80 YEARS OLD THE PICTURES OF THE CHILDREN BRING BACK MEMORIES SAME PEOPLE BUT LOOK DIFFERENT LOVE IT EVEN THE SIMPLE LIVING I WANT TO LIVE LIKE THAT AGAIN

[@BlackFertility]

Well, they are AI. Not even real pictures.

[@nadialove2048]

Is something wrong with her arm?

[@michellesalazar1504]

Maybe, but ignore that, it is not evident to us. Let us appreciate her and her knowledge in bringing back some of our beautiful cultural words! Big har up! ​@@nadialove2048

[@ralphhall8798]

p❤plplppl⁰😅jn​@@BlackFertility

[@grudolph1982]

Thank you for keeping our culture alive

[@kareemsquest]

I have to

[@markspringer716]

Jamaican make up words everyday .recently , ..a female in a kitchen promised to use an empty frying pan to PENG PENG me up .😂😂😂

[@mariemapp4636]

Don't you get from Belize to

[@jayc3614]

Lol wolmers boys popularized amongst ourselves in 2010-2012 devn. Til it shortened as a response when showing outrage at a suggestion they'd just say devn or mi devn.

[@michellesalazar1504]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@juneroberts3955]

Thank you Kareem’s Quest, what a rich culture!! Your guest did a fantastic job!! the language explanation, thank you! - our heritage!!!. This is nostalgic!!. I enjoy this.

[@kareemsquest]

Glad to know you enjoyed it

[@MD_ENTERTAINMENT]

My grandmother who died at 92 use to call anything that is weak and feeble "fenke fenke". This includes the fence at the back of the house, so no it's not just humans

[@dcat9558]

😹 ...all day!😂

[@elizabethjames213]

You could never have a fenke fenke fence..this word is only used for humans sounding like they are not well or sounding weak in their voice. You refer to a weak dilapidated fence.

[@MD_ENTERTAINMENT]

@elizabethjames213 it all depends on where in Jamaica you are from. I am telling you that some words used differently in the west of the country from the east

[@zigzag7194]

​@MD_ENTERTAINMENT OK you explain this to me. Father comes from mo-bay my mother comes from westmoreland Me. Myself and I born in england. But i lived in J🇯🇲a🇯🇲m🇯🇲a🇯🇲i🇯🇲c🇯🇲a for 10 years before returning back to the UK. And as far as I know fehkeh means anything that is weak. And with my little Knowledge you don't have two different types of weak. That boy is fenkeh fenkeh. Don't put anything on that table it to ...... finish the sentence 🤔

[@MD_ENTERTAINMENT]

@zigzag7194 it's to fenkefenke👍🏿👍🏿. Yes my grandparents are all from Westmoreland, but I was born and raised in Montego Bay, now living in England😂😂

[@CG-lv1ts]

Watching from Costa Rica,Jamaican ancestors the same here ❤❤❤❤

[@kareemsquest]

Nice to know

[@azariahisrael3898]

Big up to our Jamaican family in Costa Rica, who have been there for Many Many Years .

[@OppoleneChambers]

🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲👍🏼💯

[@dianagrant-barton6609]

Jamaicans have a name for everything 😊 Thanks for sharing our rich history to the world. Thanks Kareem. Big up my sis Viv. Love your baby sis, Diana.🔥🔥

[@kareemsquest]

You Are welcome

[@AsWeSpeak154]

Diana, you were such a pretty baby and little girl. I often wondered what happened to you. I spoke to Marie many years ago but then we lost touch again.

[@carolsmith4119]

She’s right! Most of these expressions comes from West Africa. ❤

[@gloriahenry5446]

Oh how i enjoy this topic, it brings back memories great memories, l love it.

[@MaggieAndersonJAeducator1992]

I enjoyed this journey into our oral traditions. Hearing these expressions, took me back to my childhood.

[@MP-ou2lu]

As a Jamaican born left very young to the States, truly learned sone new words today and im grateful for the older generation teachers . Thanks so much for bringing culture awareness in language to our people. I also enjoyed the laughter and the pictures of the past. Thank God for teachers/ educators and Kareem quest I came upon your videos by luck, and I'm enjoying every bit of it . ❤

[@kareemsquest]

Wow that is nice to hear

[@fayeblake7147]

Very informative.there are at least two words common to Eastern Caribbean: brawta and braps Love it .The Language is so colourful.

[@NativeNomad10]

Brawta is a Jamaican patois word derived from Barter which is used in several Dancehall songs and adopted by the eastern caribbean islands. Braps originated from a period of gun salute in Dancehall which was also adopted by other islands.

[@roysweetland8162]

The language of our parents and grand parents represents some of the historically yet simple ways of communication, thanks for tapping into this living reservoir of language excellence, you both represent the need to preserve s and present the dynamics of our “Out of Many One People” experience and the cross generational dynamics of the rich Jamaican culture, let’s not forget that the Wailer’s Rude boy era was akin to the dancehall era as in those times as today the rude boy era was regarded a societal youth counter culture that even some of the older artistes like Alton Ellis chided Bob Marley for making songs that the younger generation preferred to use as their way of expression.

[@galileo3763]

Absolutely wonderful program. I am from the Dominica but live in the United States. We use none of these words back home but have our own to use in similar situations. For example where you all use panka panka we say poko poko .

[@robertgrant6883]

We used that same word in Jamaica too, same meaning

[@kareemsquest]

Glad you like it

[@devogrant2817]

I am glad you said this, my aunt from Jamaica used to say poko poko......?

[@linettejenkins8600]

​@@devogrant2817poko poko is from Spanish, poco y poco

[@TarlosSmith]

We use poko poko in Jamaica

[@PrettyINPink-r4s]

I absolutely love the way she explains things. She is definitely an excellent teacher, so wonderful. ❤

[@kareemsquest]

You are welcome. I have passed on the message to her

[@glendonscott4454]

We Jamaica have a meaning for everything listening to her bring back lots of memories

[@hermanshim8948]

More please. Bangarang.

[@hoperichards4600]

In a most recent time I’ve been watching and keenly listening to Nigerian films and believe you me I’ve uncovered that similarly many of our word are used in their vernacular …

[@NativeNomad10]

I have always watched nigerian films and the words are not the same. Infact no African words are the same with Jamaicans creole because they are derivatives of the words in the African language and not the exact words. Even their pidgin is younger than Jamaica creole and isnt a creole as yet.

[@iamempressfiresign]

​@NativeNomad10 You're incorrect. Don't be a mumu. There are many original words passed down from our ancestors that we kept intact. A simple google search will give you a list but "anansi", "nyam" and "mumu" are a few. And our language is not called creole, it's called patwa (patois)!

[@michaelmaxwell2464]

She is not so calling her stupid is silly. Modern pidgin descends from Sierra Leone's Krio as the language travelled south to become Naija pidgin, Ghana pidgin etc. Krio descends from indigenous African languages and Jamaican Western Maroon Creole when the Maroons were sent to Sierra Leone after the 2nd Maroon War so no she is not mumu. She is actually correct. Original pidgin from our ancestors would have been Portuguese based as they were early into West Africa and were there a while before they began the TransAtlantic Slave Trade. So take your OWN advice and google.

[@dbailey204]

Our language is also called Jamaican Creole.

[@orlandowarren1396]

Greetings bredda. Iman from Belize and we got some similar words and cultures. It's all connected to the Motherland. Love your channel. Bless up. 🙏🙏👍👍

[@DeloresSales]

Good morning Kareem and friend,I love your channel I am a Jamaican who grow in the sixties still remember some of these saying.

[@andreaclarke161]

Good info folks. Need a part 2👍🏽

[@vivahenry4547]

This is so interesting, I never heard of some of those mafe up words. Thanks for the lesson. Blessings❤️

[@lisahyatt7349]

I remember going to lunch with my "boyfriend" at age 20. We had ordered the food and we were there bapping eyes at each other. Here comes my mother, into the restaurant, and asking if the sandwiches she gave me were'nt enough. Then she gabbed me by the left ear and pulled me along a few chains back up the toad back to my wotkplace. End of lunch date. I married him eventually. I should have listened to her.

[@amharawilliams2429]

Boundaries...

[@OppoleneChambers]

😂😂😂😂😊😊

[@fereenewalker4297]

😅😅

[@DrDianeThompson]

I love this. As a Jamaican some of these are new to me.

[@divinecomedy0]

Me too!

[@ChristianWarrior-n5q]

Kareem and Mrs GB thanks for this very informative and interesting. I have subscribed and shared it with friends…,,wow great going😊

[@kareemsquest]

You are welcome

[@andieslive669]

Love, Honor and Respect to Kareem Quest because he always brought people who knows about Real Jamaican History, Language and Culture.

[@kareemsquest]

You're welcome

[@David-h7o5v]

Everything explained perfectly. Great job

[@bodysiacempress2171]

I'm glad she said be careful.. we are all caribbean, and we are all one , Here from st lucia 🇱🇨 🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨and we use some of the expressions as well. I love boodufbaf. We use that when we express a fat person when they fall lol 😆 we are all one. I love it .

[@NativeNomad10]

St lucia has a French Patois and any words you use similar to jamaican patois is what your island absorbed from Jamaican culture. Jamaica doesnt have French influence

[@jamaicansistarobinson7587]

" Cow Caah Hear Woah- Dem Ears Belong to Di Butcher." " Tek Out Di Talking And Leave Di Whispering!"

[@alberthabarnes3997]

I am a Jamaican, and panka panka is use as what kind of thing is that, means it don't look goof on you, take it off, mostly a dress that don't look good on you take it off.

[@kemoywalker2221]

bless up,thanks for another great and educational video

[@kareemsquest]

My pleasure

[@rayr9680]

Great video💐

[@dimplessamuels960]

Tallawah comes from the English word stalwart, meaning strong, sturdy and tough.

[@NativeNomad10]

Tallawah doesn't sound nothing like stalwart and didn't come from it.

[@blackbway]

​@@NativeNomad10It sounds exactly like like it comes out of that word. Break it down; Stal-wart, Tal-wa = Tal-la-wah. It makes sense to me.

[@rayr9680]

Tallawah African. Meaning small but powerful

[@dimplessamuels960]

@@rayr9680 interpreted just like Jamaicans.

[@NativeNomad10]

​​@@blackbway In your opinion because there are some letters found in Tallawah thats found in Stalwart, you then conclude that they sound alike? It's also Tallawah, not talwa which is also a word by itself in English. The words aren't phonetically similar.

[@MaytheroseGallimore-cu1cn]

WAW WAW, THAT'S A GREAT TOPIC, KEEP IT UP, AM A JAMAICAN I ENJOYED IT.

[@MichelleBarhamlifestyle]

Such a great conversation ❤. I learnt some new Jamaican patwa words ❤

[@kareemsquest]

Great!

[@avamariewilson9402]

Such beautiful people

[@SeanBrown-h5q]

I like this program it unique bless up

[@weshipitjamaica4354]

Accoutrement....accoo-treh-mah ..aka ole ooman bag...hahahaha have a kaleidoscope of things in one's bag for any kind of emergency.

[@Nyameanah]

I used to decorate my clothes with pins and ribbons when I was a child and I remember my mother would say to me "a way you get dem kutchumen pan you clothes" and I never understand that word until I become an adult.( Accoutrement).

[@TashOnTheRock]

Here in Newfoundland you may hear someone say “ Just gonna give the floor a Scottish lick and an Irish promise” or the other way around . ✌️💕🇨🇦

[@dawnwhite4706]

I enjoyed the session because my language is so very expressive and colourful. It is so sad that we are still debating or unwilling to accept that we are bilingual. Therefore, both languages can coexist it does not have to be either or either.

[@yvonnescott-hurge8841]

This was absolutely awesome....i am known for making my own words...just something that fits the context at that point un time...usually coined from proper words...eg beautificate instead of beautify....asJacans we are just wonderful

[@marjoriespeicher.9319]

Kukumcum..1st.i hear this one. Thanks

[@charlotteclarke2584]

Listen to Red Dragon ku kum kum

[@Fari-100]

If you mean dream of fish mean pregnancy , that is also in Black American culture ... from the African roots ...

[@vetaclarke7308]

Thanks for this video and discussion 👏🏽 The high school teacher who beat me for coming late after I ride 6 miles to school and had to work after school and open my granny’s shop In the mornings, I hated him🥲. It took me years to forgive him. Also, if any man tried to beat me I’m out or I’ll hurt him✔️. My granny said “Get educated so you don’t have to only depend on a man”. My sisters and I took this advice✔️. One love❤️🇯🇲

[@davidphinn9646]

The Kuchument explanation was wild nuh rahtid😂. Je peux voir comment ça marche😉

[@AndrewDuncan-f2h]

I love the photos and cultural explanation

[@marjoriespeicher.9319]

I know the term..Fenke fenke . Thanks I'm born Jamaican listening from South Florida.

[@photochile]

Loving this video. The pictures are so wonderful. Shoutout to #JessieRipoll ❤🎉

[@adelclyne7545]

Brawta comes from 'Barata' in Spanish which means goods for which less money is paid.. Or cheaper goods. I love words😊 good stuff

[@TonyCardona-n3u]

Jamaicans are very entertaining folks...

[@childofTHEKINGofkings2.0]

Very interesting thank you

[@Edgie84]

Kuchuments a lot of other Caribbean islands use that word too... means alot of things

[@ChriscedaPalmer]

Yes my dad use to say that always, also my grand mother

[@FitzroyMartin-s9n]

Thanks to d world am a Jamaican .great great great great peopleeeeeeee with blessed history so well come to jamrock ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@rachaelcorreia8630]

We say many of the same words as Jamaicans... tallawah is one word l grew up hearing in TRINIDAD 🇹🇹

[@kareemsquest]

Great to know

[@NativeNomad10]

You mean you speak Jamaican Patois in Trinidad because Trinidad has a French Patois but have adopted a lot of Jamaican Patois, and combined it with their dying French patois, English, etc to create a creole language that's quite young.

[@1truek269]

​@@NativeNomad10 facts

[@Heartandmind22]

So good. I laugh and reminisce

[@elainemclarty4436]

Very Educational Information of these Jamaican Words I growing up using most of them in High School

[@christinemarkland-f3n]

lovely topic i i enjoy the interview e

[@sampledivahair1801]

I love your content always brings me back to my childhood days

[@kareemsquest]

Great to know

[@andreawilliams9460]

From the seventies..and listen.... music to my ears What wi nugh 4 seams pants again....woi woi

[@dimplessamuels960]

I definitely gonna get her book!!!

[@sherinebonsu8572]

Thank for this!❤

[@kareemsquest]

👍

[@TheRasta4ri]

Dawg nyam you supper

[@biggabaggs]

Love this content ❤

[@xnina9]

'Braps' is popular in Trinidad with the same use - a sudden stop.

[@devon9643]

Great Conversation!! Bravo!!!!! Spare the rod spoil the child (abuse withstanding)

[@norrisvickers2383]

Fenkeh fenkeh use to describe manty things not only human state

[@CliftonSimpson-x2t]

I think it means anything sub- standard

[@viviennegrant307]

Thanks for that correction. Soon as I read it I remembered. Bless you.

[@tattoomarc1000]

Exactly 💯 mi nuh know wey she get Fi har fenkeh fenkeh reasoning from 😂 but mi still appreciate ee video ya tho

[@truedaley4312]

Fenkeh Fenkeh is a word from the Igbos in Nigeria

[@Amatullah78]

That’s amazing. Does it have the same meaning?

[@NativeNomad10]

It's of Jamaican origin

[@islandsurveyor]

What's the word then?

[@patrickdixon7588]

Very interesting and informative, thanks. Shall watch your channel more ontensively

[@sampledivahair1801]

Ku_kum_kum was my nickname growing up Bowy mi di maga bad memories 😂😂😂😂

[@tanyamalcolm604]

Lol me to

[@positivybz2602]

😀😀😀

[@altonjones3408]

I love all the pictures and art can you tell me if they're available in print

[@kareemsquest]

Yes you can email me [e-mail]

[@cynthiareid9289]

Remember you have Jamericans who understand too. My father is Jamaican and I grew up around only Jamaicans so I know everything you’re saying. 😊

[@soniajohnson6059]

This was wonderful.

[@JamaicanDialectPatoisPar-bo8cx]

Oh yes!!! ❤❤❤

[@VernonMcCormack-wn4go]

Love this ✨🙏🏾✨..

[@thelazygangtv-qn9mi]

Kareem, the first thing, parents should love and care about their children. Jamaicans need to stop talking about yuh ugli suh to their children and take responsibility for bringing up responsible adults.most of JA punishment method comes out of the dark past and continue to today. Undue and unfair punishment to is unacceptable. Many many Jamaicans don’t educate themselves to speak peace and love into their children. This needs to be done at an early age. Children are taught that force and violence is what matters. Until Jamaica stop this perpetual abuse, verbally, psychologically, emotionally and physically, they will continue to produce violent young people. STOP the violence on Jamaican children and teach them, by example, how to respect themselves and others.

[@trulyrich707]

🎯💯✨

[@paulinedavis8123]

Everything that you say is so true

[@devogrant2817]

I completely agree it either traumatizes you in one way or another and it may work on a few ...who see no reason other than to carry it on.....for Jamaicans this is the legacy of enslavement .......

[@kondensedyah9249]

It's slavery and the colonizers who caused that.

[@liddymcfarlane9682]

Agree💯%

[@virgoangel4072]

Prekeh? Where's that from

[@Nyameanah]

Accoutrement is emblems and decorations on one's clothes. For example, the pins, buttons, and ribbons on Governor General, Army officer, Police and others.🎗🎗🎖🎗🎗 Also, the things that ahe mentioned.

[@PureSweetness]

Antiguans often use, We likkle, but we tallawah when we accomplished big things.

[@NativeNomad10]

That, for a fact, was adopted from Jamaica as many of Antiguan creole words and structure.

[@CarlClarke-t3d]

Panka panka is a take off of the Spanish poco poco which means so-so or table tennis ping pong. Thanks

[@gloriarobinson1869]

The slang "Poco poco" means Little, Little. When asked how much water is in the drum, or how much do you want, reply would be "poco poco. The slang is a Spanish derivative.❤❤❤

[@carollewoon4958]

I remember those songs from Red dragon. Also , I remember the insult. When you get “ buff”

[@hilaryclarke1183]

Some children had to walk very far from home to school, and got beaten by teachers..wickedness.

[@Nyameanah]

I walked about 1/12 mile and there were other students walking more to school in the 70s. The principal ( who we called Man Teacher) of the school was a war veteran with a cane. Anyway, he drove a morris car and in the mornings he would meet us on the road where the students were walking in groups( Buff Bay, Mount Vernon, Hart Hill & Aldon) he would go behind us and drove, while we would ran all the way to school. One thing don't you ever let him get close to you with that car, because with a quick flick of that cane, it is coming across your back or any part of the body😂😂😂😂

[@annmariesalkey8297]

I am a jamaican I love some of these words and their meaning 2

[@fancycampbell7433]

Budufbaf....... Extra fat sumaddy 😂😂😂😂😂😂 the sound breadfruit make when it drop 😂😂😂😂😂

[@amanslife360]

West Africans words. Great video

[@wayvalgraham3452]

That's me I raised up with my granny, and then my mother was a vendor, so early rising was all I know. Punctuality has been instilled in me from childhood

[@sadierojan5372]

God bless you my Fellow cancer surviver

[@viviennegrant307]

We shall not die But live and declare the works of the Lord. Psalm 118 : 17

[@paulettephilp8649]

My father was always ready before us children, he was a stickler for punctuality.

[@trevorbudram4820]

Lik an promis -palla palla.

[@oraldonaldson1880]

Nice backdrop

[@Mercifully-Millicia]

What about karoungees!?

[@elainemaineculf2412]

Ask my old time granny..she knows how wata run go a pumpkin belly...😂😂😂

[@ChriscedaPalmer]

We are from St.Vincent