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Trinidad & Tobago
congo pepper
A variety of chili pepper similar to the habanero.
food
plant
3 comments
Grenada
Trinidad & Tobago
congoree
The millipede
animal
12 comments
Jamaica
congry
Any species of salt water eels from the families Muraendae and Congridae.
animal
1 comments
Jamaica
conk
To rap or strike the head with the knuckles. Often used as a means of disciplining or punishing unruly children
1 comments
Jamaica
conkconct
Banana flour
food
Barbados
Guyana
St. Kitts & Nevis
conkie
A dessert item similar to bread pudding that is made from any combination of cassava, coco, sweet potato, or cornmeal along with flour, sugar and spices like nutmeg and cinnamon. The mixture is traditionally wrapped in leaves (banana or taro) or cloth and then boiled until cooked.
food
2 comments
Barbados
conkies
A desert similar to payme or dukunu. It is made from mixture of grated pumpkin, sweet potato, cornmeal, flour, and various spices wrapped in banana leaf and steamed on a rack over boiling water.
food
1 comments
St. Kitts & Nevis
US Virgin Islands
coo coo
Feces. Excrement
profanity
1 comments
Dominica
coocooli
A variety of bitter melon plant (Momordica charantia). A vine bearing a small bumpy skinned yellow or orange fruit. The leaves are used to make a bitter herbal tea that his regarded for its medicinal and purgative properties
plant
Guyana
Trinidad & Tobago
cook
The act of going to the river or beach and spending the day cooking, drinking and relaxing.
2 comments
Guyana
Trinidad & Tobago
cookup rice
A one-pot mixture of peas and rice, cooked with meat
food
3 comments
Guyana
cool down
Commercially produced drinks or juice packaged in plastic bags.
food
Jamaica
cool runnins
An expression used to wish good fortune and a good trip on departing travelers
Barbados
Belize
Grenada
Guyana
Jamaica
St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Lucia
Trinidad & Tobago
St. Vincent
coolie
A person of East Indian ancestry. Most Caribbean people of East Indian descent can trace their roots back to indentured workers imported by the British in the 19th century after the abolition of slavery.
person
197 comments
Grenada
coolie paw paw
A variety of bitter melon plant (Momordica charantia). A vine bearing a small bumpy skinned yellow or orange fruit. The leaves are used to make a bitter herbal tea that his regarded for its medicinal and purgative properties
plant
3 comments
Jamaica
coolie plum
Ziziphus Mauritania; A small round berry about 3/4 inches in diameter. The fruit is green and turns yellow as it ripens. Ripe fruit may occasionally develop a rust brown colour and a cracked texture. The unripe fruit is firm and slightly acidic, and grows softer and mushier when it ripens. The berries have a single hard seed.
food
plant
31 comments
Jamaica
coolings
A homemade frozen pop popular with children. It is made by pouring mixed drinks into small transparent plastic bags, tying the bags to seal them, and freezing. They are normally consumed by sucking a small hole bitten in one corner of the bag.
food
3 comments
Jamaica
cooliz
A homemade frozen pop popular with children. It is made by pouring mixed drinks into small transparent plastic bags, tying the bags to seal them, and freezing. They are normally consumed by sucking a small hole bitten in one corner of the bag.
food
St. Kitts & Nevis
coop
To sneak or be sneaky
Dominica
copawayzuh
To be afraid, to be a coward.
1 comments
Trinidad & Tobago
corbeau
Turkey vulture or black vulture. A large carrion feeding bird of prey with a turkey-like bald red or black head.
animal
bird
3 comments
Jamaica
cork
Bottle cap
Jamaica
cork up
To be constipated
2 comments
Jamaica
corn
Bullet
Belize
corn lob
A lob made from corn juices and corn meal ;usually made by a mill. It is has been passed down for generations by the indigenous Mayas and can only be found in Belize.
food
St. Kitts & Nevis
corn pop
A breakfast porridge made with cornmeal as a primary ingredient. It may also include milk, coconut milk, sugar, and spices like nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla.
food
Trinidad & Tobago
cornichon
The fruit and tree of Averrhoa bilimbi. A relative of the carambola or star fruit, the tree produces an edible, green, five pomed, cucumber like fruit.
food
fruit
plant
1 comments
Guyana
Jamaica
St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Lucia
cornmeal porridge
A breakfast porridge made with cornmeal as a primary ingredient. It may also include milk, coconut milk, sugar, and spices like nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla.
food
6 comments
Jamaica
coroches
Junk
US Virgin Islands
corotole
Junk