Jamaican Englishn.adj.
/dʒəˌmeɪk(ə)n ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/, U.S. /dʒəˌmeɪkən ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃ/, Caribbean English /dʒaˌmeːkan ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/, /dʒʌˌmeːkʌn ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/ A. n.
The English language as spoken or written in Jamaica or by Jamaicans.
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Jamaican English1880
Barbadian English1890
Jamaican1924
Bahamian English1952
Dominican English1955
Trinidadian English1959
Guyanese English1967
Kittitian1973
Antiguan English1978
1880 Times 24 Apr. 12 They drove to the romantic defile known as the Bog Walk, through which the lovely Agua Alta (in Jamaican English, Way Water) threads its silvery way.
1986 K. Katzner Langs. of World (rev. ed.) iii. 346 Much of the population..speaks a local patois, generally referred to as Jamaican English, which..contains a number of archaic English words as well as some from Africa.
2019 New Literary Hist. 50 p. xxi Code-switching between Jamaican English..and Standard English, the poem insists on the African elements in the interracial story it tells.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the English language as spoken or written in Jamaica or by Jamaicans.
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Jamaican English1901
Bahamian English1952
Dominican English1955
Barbadian English1958
Trinidadian English1964
Guyanese English1968
Caribbean English1970
1901 Collier's 5 Oct. 19/1 Straight across from this point of vantage, within easy gunshot, lie two other islands—Careening Key (a Jamaican-English corruption for ‘Quarantine Quay’) and Solarte Quay.
1985 Bestsellers 45 369/1 Clara..speaks mainly in a Jamaican-English dialect.
2014 Eng. Today Sept. 11/2 The ongoing changes in the quotative system can be seen as reflective of the ongoing changes in Jamaican English usage.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1880