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1

Foot-loose

[fut-loos]
Adjective
Meaning
Restless, prone to wandering, or constantly roaming the streets.
Example
"Dat boy too foot-loose, him never stay home fi one hour."
2

Fish-belly

[fish-bel-lee]
Adjective
Meaning
Soft, pale, weak, or unaccustomed to hard physical labor.
Example
"Him skin look like fish-belly because him stay inside all day."
3

Fi-mi

[fee-mee]
Pronoun
Meaning
Mine; belonging to me.
Example
"Dat blue hat a fi-mi, give it back."
4

Festival

[fes-ti-val]
Noun
Meaning
Fried sweet cornmeal dough fritter served with jerk or fried fish.
Example
"Order two jerk chicken wid three hot festival."
5

Fast-mouth

[fahss-mout]
Adjective
Meaning
Garrulous, talkative out of turn, or unable to keep confidential matters secret.
Example
"Stop be so fast-mouth and keep di secret to yuhself!"
6

Flay

[flay]
Verb
Meaning
To skin, peel, or strip off skin/surface.
Example
"Flay off di skin from di yam before yuh bwoil it."
7

Fulljoy

[full-joy]
Verb
Meaning
To enjoy fully (Rastafarian term substituting 'in-joy' with 'full-joy').
Example
"Wi fulljoy di reggae festival whole night."
8

Frowsy

[frow-zee]
Adjective
Meaning
Stinky, foul-smelling, stale, or unwashed.
Example
"Di room smell frowsy because di window dem close too long."
9

Fret

[fret]
Verb
Meaning
To worry excessively or be anxious.
Example
"Nuh fret yuhself bout di exam, yuh wi pass."
10

Fresh

[fresh]
Adjective
Meaning
Rude, cheeky, forward, or freshly bathed/smelling good.
Example
"Nuh getfresh wid di big people dem!"
11

Fram

[fram]
Preposition
Meaning
From.
Example
"Where yuh come fram?"
12

Forward

[for-ward]
Verb
Meaning
To proceed, move ahead, step forward, or come over.
Example
"Forward inna di house and make yuhself comfortable."
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