Bammy

[bam-mee]

Definition

Traditional Jamaican cassava flatbread.

Example Sentences

Patois:
Fry two piece a bammy fi eat wid di fried fish.
English:
Fry two pieces of cassava flatbread to eat with the fried fish.

Patois:
Soak di bammy inna coconut milk before yuh fry it.
English:
Soak the cassava cake in coconut milk before you fry it.

Usage Tip

Traditional Indigenous/Arawak-derived cassava bread staple eaten soaked and fried or baked with seafood.

Patois Synonym:
English Synonym: cassava flatbread

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