Barbados
Grenada
Trinidad & Tobago
St. Vincent
verb
To make fun of; to ridicule
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Ari
12 years ago

Interesting. My whole family is from Trinidad and has only ever used this to mean 'sweet-talk'.

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anonymous
12 years ago

It's spelt mamaguile and in Trini it means sweet talk

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
Trini2dbone
11 years ago

Sweet talk in an insincere way as a means to an end...<br /> Hence subtle ridicule ... To make a monkey of ...<br /> In other words:<br /> "If yuh not too brite yuh eh go ketch on"

Barbados
Barbados
Bradley
8 years ago

Lol@ "If yuh not too brite yuh eh go ketch on"

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
Trinigyalian
5 years ago

It means to bribe or try to flatter someone. So a person would say "Doh mamaguy meh nah". I say it to my American husband all the time lol

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
Dominic
4 years ago

@Trinigyalian methinks thou doth protest too much!

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
cadosss
last year

i telling my american gyal to stop the mamaguying and she look at me like i crazy