A practitioner of obeah or black arts.

Party or celebration

The core equipment necessary to play money football: Two large coins, a small coin and a pair of fudge sticks.

A late night or all night gathering in remembrance of the dead. Often includes eating, drinking, and games such as dominoes.

The Christmas time tradition of going house to house and serenading residents with carols. The residents typically reward the participants with food, drink, and or small cash gifts.

The Jamaican Vireo (Vireo modestus) is a species of bird in the Vireonidae family. It is endemic to Jamaica. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Party or celebration

Mexican Coriander. Eryngium foetidum is a tropical perennial and annual herb in the family Apiaceae used for seasoning and marinating food.

Another man's child that is passed off deceptively to an unsuspecting man to father as his own.

Tradition dress that consists of trousers (usually wide at top and gets narrow at the bottom), and a long shirt or tunic (which contains slits at the sides below the waist for greater movement).

A creeping herb whose leaves close up and droop when touched - reopening within minutes. Scientific name: Mimosa pudica (Sensitive Plant).

Carambola; A fruit with a star shaped cross section. As it ripens it turns from green to yellow. The fruit has a tart taste and is a good source of vitamin C.

The Jamaican $5000 banknote bearing the image of former Prime Minister Hugh Shearer.

To mess up. To destroy or ruin

Nonsense; Foolishness.

To shoot up a place.

A covered container used to transport meals. Commonly used by people to take lunch to work.

An effeminate, but not necessarily homosexual male.

Gluttonous, greedy

Feces. Excrement

Diarrhea or other forms of upset stomach.

Any oppressive or corrupt system or regime.

Diarrhea or other forms of upset stomach.

Only those closest to a situation fully understand it.

Men's underwear

To win an argument using noise and aggression instead of superior reasoning and facts.

A Christmas specialty liquor made from orange and tangerine peel, white rum, and cane syrup.

To shove or push

Gossip. Idle talk, rumours, or salacious news about the private affairs of others.

Gossip. Idle talk, rumours, or salacious news about the private affairs of others.