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Antigua & Barbuda
Grenada
Guyana
achar
A condiment made from fruit (often mango), vinegar, peppers, salt and mustard oil
food
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Jamaica
Finger neba say look ya, him say look yonda.
People never point out their own faults.
proverb
Jamaica
So much mout cyaa set fi tell di same lie
If everybody makes the same accusation then there must be some truth in it.
proverb
Bahamas
Fisherman never smell he own basket
People are oblivious to their own faults and flaws
proverb
Bahamas
Hog know where to rub he skin
Bullies know exactly who they can abuse.
proverb
Dominica
St. Lucia
Trinidad & Tobago
accra
A fried batter made from a mix of flour, saltfish, onions, peppers and other spices
food
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Bahamas
Fattening frog for snake
Taking care of a woman only for a next man to enjoy her.
proverb
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Jamaica
accompong
A historical maroon village, located in the hills of St. Elizabeth Parish in Jamaica, consolidated by a treaty in 1739. It is located in one of the two areas where runaway slaves settled, originally with the Tainos, isolated enough to be safe first from the Spanish and then later from the British. The town of Accompong was named after the Maroon leader Accompong, who was the brother of a number of other Maroon leaders: Quao, Cuffy, Cudjoe, and Nanny, from an Ashanti family
place
Barbados
White mout fowl does eat and den wipe he mout in grass
Some people will never show gratitude.
proverb
Belize
abstract
To annoy.
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Barbados
When yuh en got horse, ride cow.
Use the resources available to you.
proverb
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Trinidad & Tobago
Goat doh make sheep
Children turn out like their parents.
proverb
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Trinidad & Tobago
Common sense make before book sense.
Not all useful knowledge comes from books or formal learning.
proverb
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Jamaica
Every tub affi sit on it own bottom.
Every person will have to take responsibility for his own life and actions.
proverb
Jamaica
We don't play hockey, we eat ackee
A funny bit of wordplay by deejay Shabba Ranks that depends on the overlapping pronunciations of 'ackee' (the food) and 'hockey' (the game). This pronunciation overlap is made stronger (and funnier) with the additional context that some Jamaicans have a tendency to add an intrusive 'h' at the start of words beginning with vowels and some Jamaicans have a tendency to drop the leading 'h' in words.
proverb
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Belize
Blood ticka dan water, but water taste better
Dealing with friends or strangers is often better than dealing with family
proverb
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Jamaica
One one coco full basket
Little by little the task will be completed
proverb
Aruba
Bonaire
Curacao
Jamaica
abeng
A trumpet like instrument made from an animal's horn. It was traditionally used as a Maroon communication and ceremonial tool. It was also used by slaveholders to summon slaves to the fields at work time.
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Jamaica
Chicken merry, hawk de near.
Danger lurks wherever there is too much merriment and excitement.
proverb
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Guyana
abedeze
We - first person plural
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