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Jamaica
patty
A light flaky pastry filled with a savoury filling. Traditionally they were filled with ground beef, but modern incarnations can have a variety of fillings including chicken, callaloo, cabbage, or ackee and saltfish.
food
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Jamaica
patoo
Owl
animal
bird
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Jamaica
patois
Local dialect derived from African and various European languages (usually some combination of English, French, Spanish or Dutch)
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Guyana
patacake
The vagina. The female sexual organ.
Jamaica
passa passa
Scandal, social conflict, or drama
Belize
pas pas fly
Mosquitoes.
animal
Belize
pas pas
A beating.
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Jamaica
partner
A form of savings where a group of people pay an agreed sum of money on a periodic basis (usually monthly) and each period one member of the group takes all the money that has been paid (their share). This practice has been traced back to Yoruba credit system.
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Jamaica
parson john crow
A white turkey vulture.
animal
bird
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Grenada
parrain
Godfather
person
Jamaica
paro
High; Under the influence of drugs
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Puerto Rico
parcha
A fruit related to the passion fruit, but with a hard green skin. They are significantly sweeter than passion fruits.
fruit
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Trinidad & Tobago
paratha roti
A roti made with butter, usually ghee. Oil is rubbed on both sides, then it is cooked on a tawah. This gives the roti a crisp outside. When it almost finished cooking, the cook begins to beat it, causing it to crumble
food
St. Lucia
para
High; Under the influence of drugs
Belize
papaya
A torpedo, oval, or pear shaped fruit. The fruit bears on a large leafed tree up to 10m tall. When green, it is cooked as if a vegetable. The flesh contains an enzyme named papain that serves as an effective meat tenderiser. When ripe it is yellowish-orange in colour. The flesh is bright orange, soft, and sweet. The insides are hollow containing a lots of seeds with each seed contained in a small liquid filled sac. The seeds and the fluid surrounding them have a bitter taste.
food
plant
fruit
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Barbados
Dominica
Grenada
Guyana
Jamaica
Trinidad & Tobago
papaw
A torpedo, oval, or pear shaped fruit. The fruit bears on a large leafed tree up to 10m tall. When green, it is cooked as if a vegetable. The flesh contains an enzyme named papain that serves as an effective meat tenderiser. When ripe it is yellowish-orange in colour. The flesh is bright orange, soft, and sweet. The insides are hollow containing a lots of seeds with each seed contained in a small liquid filled sac. The seeds and the fluid surrounding them have a bitter taste.
plant
food
fruit
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Puerto Rico
papa
Potato
food
plant
Jamaica
pap chow
Bok Choy
food
plant
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Belize
panya
Any hispanic that does not speak Belizean Kriol.
person
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Antigua & Barbuda
pankoot
Idiot or simpleton; A stupid person
person
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