Guyanese Slang

You may have heard Funny Guyanese talking on YouTube but there is a legit Guyanese urban dictionary full of guyanese terms and meanings.

In this study you can learn:

bugga guyanese meaning guyanese greetings guyanese slang banna buse guyanese welcome in guyanese

Ayou – talking about someone else

Alooo – potatoes

Bruk up – broken

Box you – slap you

Buck ta – male underwear

Blind – curtains

Battie – butt

Cut tail,Cut ass – A serious spanking

Cut yeye – cutting your eye at someone by turning the eyes the other way.

Cyar – car

Coolie – east Indian

Chana – chick peas

Draaz – female underwear

Frock – dress

Grip – suitcase

Ganda eeggg – spoil egg

Gimme – give me

Hise up – lift

Jumbie – ghost

Karna – corner

Magah – thin or skinny

Nettin – mesh

Picknie – child

Prappa – proper

Pailing – fence

picha – movie

Rum shop – bar

Sweetman – have another woman although he’s married

star gyal – actress, really pretty girl

Skin teet – smile.

Vex – angry

Werie pepper – little round red peppers

Wutless – wicked, mischievous.

Yanda – just over there

Yaatin boots – Sneakers

Trini SlangBacchanal – party atmosphere; arguments, confusion e.g. “If dey find out, it will be rel bacchanal.”

Back chat – a rude response e.g. “Doh give meh no back chat now, yuh hear!”

Badjohn – a bully; a person who thinks they’re really “bad”

Bath suit – swim suit

Band (Carnival) – a Carnival band refers to a group of masqueraders who are wearing the same costumes, or costumes based on the same theme.

Biscuit – cookie, cracker

Bobolee – a person who gets taken advantage of

Bobolize – to bully someone

Boof / buff – to scold

Buss – to burst; to be a flop e.g. “Shux dred, dat party was rel buss.”

Buss it – to leave e.g. “Well when I see dat, I buss it!”

Chips – French Fries e.g. “May I have some chips, please?”

Chutney – a type of music indigenous to Trinidad, which evolved from Indian music

Commesse – confusion, conflict

Cunumunu – a foolish person

Dingolay – to dance in a joyful, carefree manner

Dotish – silly, stupid e.g “Don’t act dotish nah!”

Doux-doux – sweetie, sweetheart e.g. “Don’t mind dat, doux-doux.”

Dred – friend (see also hoss, padna); cool e.g. “Dat movie was dred, eh dred?”

Fella – a fellow, a boy, a guy e.g. “Way! Check dat fella!”

Fete – party

Fuh real? – really? Is that so?

Gyul – girl

Horn – to cheat on a boyfriend of girlfriend

Hoss – a close friend

In truth – for real, that’s right e.g. “That test was so hard!” Reply: “In truth!”

Lagniappe – a little extra, a bonus

Lil – little

Lime – to hang out in a casual atmosphere e.g. “I feeling to lime.”

Maco – someone who minds other people’s business! e.g. “Wha yuh macoing so for?”

Make style – to show off

Mamaguy – to make fun of, to fool

Mas – used to refer to Carnival; to play mas – to masquerade

Obeah – black magic, voodoo

Obzokee – unpleasant, out of place

Ole talk – chit-chat, light-hearted chatter e.g. “We was just ole talking dey.”

One time – right now, immediately e.g. “De gyul was rel angry so I buss it one time.”

Padna – (from “partner”) a close friend, buddy

Parang – music played during Christmas time. Parang has a lot of Spanish influences.

Patois – local dialect

Picker – thorns e.g. “Doh touch dat rose bush. It have rel pickers.”

Picong – to insult in a jesting manner

Pong – pound e.g. “Gih meh two pongs of tomatoes dey tantie.”

Poohar – see dotish

Pot hound / pot hong – a mixed dog; sometimes used as an insult e.g. yuh lazy pothound!

Saga boy / star boy – a male who likes to “make style”; a male who is cool

Screw up yuh face – to make a strange expression, usually when angry or in disagreement of something e.g. “Look how she screwin up she face nah!”

Soca – a type of music indigenous to TnT, derived from “soul calypso”

Soucouyant – from old ghost stories, an old woman who turns herself into a ball of fire and suck’s people’s blood

Sweet too bad – really nice, pleasant, attractive e.g. “Dred, dat gyul eh play she sweet too bad!”

Sweet drink – term used for soft drink, soda, pop

Sweetie – a sweet, candy

Tabanca – the feeling of hurt and pain when a close relationship ends e.g. “Leave him alone hoss, he gyul leave him. He have rel tabanca.”

Tantie – auntie

Tong – town e.g. “I went to tong today.”

Toutoulbay – a gullible person

Vex – angry, upset

Whas de scene? – What’s up? e.g. Ay padna, whas de scene?

Wine – to gyrate, to rotate hips in a suggestive manner