Dictionary of bahamian words and phrases - Bahamianology

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AC/DC (undecided adjective)

1. Switching back and forth. A term used to suggest the changing state in someone's relationship preferences. Example `Last week I saw Tom with Billy and now he's here with Sally... he AC/DC'. 2. Has been known to cause relationship breakups, divorce and going into witness protection.

Asue (can cause a big fight noun)

1. A way of saving your coin and paper and getting a lump sum of money when you need it.

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2. Organized by a select group of people who trust each other. Well, you have no choice but to trust, because someone who is just as broke as you is holding your money. All participants put in the same amount of money every week. One person each week gets the pot of money. 3. The Asue ends when everyone has gotten their turn at the pot or when someone doesn't get their money, then all hell usually breaks loose.

Asue draw (money noun)

1. Your turn to get the money pot. 2. Time to fight if no money is there for you to get yours.

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Baha Mar (big, giant, gargantuan, take up half the island, $3 billion dollar, world class, hotel resort development in Cable Beach, Nassau proper noun)

1. Some people don't know that the first name given to the islands by the Spanish was Bajamar, meaning shallow sea. Now I don't know if Baha Mar tief the name, but I only presenting facts here.

2. Had all kinda problems trying to open. First it was May, then June, then just after the tide come in, then as soon as the toilets get put in straight, then as soon as they borrow another hundred million to buy some more fork and knife for the restaurants, then as soon as the Chinese send some pillow cases for the beds.

3. Got people wondering where they are going to get tourists to fill up all them rooms. So yinna tourists reading this... book ya hotel room now in time for 2050 opening.

4. Promises to transform tourism in the Bahamas with state of the art architecture, restaurants and leisure amenities.

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Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival (cause all kinda cussing and fighting over feathers and g-string proper noun)

1. Big new annual street party that started in May 2015 to bring to some excitement and fun back to this boiling hot Bahamian summer.

2. Caused more cussing and carrying on over everything associated with the carnival, but mostly because the PLP party introduced it. And paid $9 million dollars for it. And because Soca music steal it. And because some vendors was selling alligator and nobody buy it. And people was using feathers like in Trinidad. And, oh yeah, I forget, people was half naked and rubbing up together like dry sticks when you making fire. Then woman boungie was showing everywhere you look, so all the preachers was praying for rain, and for Jesus to come again to judge the living, but to leave the dead where they be, and to drown all the heathen dancers who dared to wear feathers.

3. Carnival had about 97 1/2 names before the final one. Every rat and cat wanted to have their say, like they ever name big time $9 million dollar things before. First, it was `Carnival Bahamas',

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then `Trini-Bahamian Carnival', then `Bahamas Dig Up Ya Old Slave Ancestors' Carnival', then `Give Jesus Tanks With Your Clothes On Carnival' (but nobody liked that one), then it was Junkanoo African Festival.

Finally, the Prime Minister's Make Fun Tings Happen Before the Next Election Committee put their foot down after they finish getting cuss out by just about everybody, and they say, it was going to be what you see right below here.

Bahamian Time (forget to set your clock noun)

1. Bahamian time is a curious phenomenon of nature that begins anywhere from 5 minutes to nuttin' o' clock past the time you should have been somewhere.

2. Nuttin' o' clock is a favourite time in Bahamian time. It can be anywhere on the 24 hour clock that is two or more hours past the time you

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