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"Jamaican Creole nouns",
"Jamaican Creole terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Jamaican Creole terms with quotations",
"Jamaican Creole terms with redundant head parameter",
"Jamaican Creole terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "They're wearing pants with rips by the butt.",
"text": "Dem a wear buss batty pants.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The girl's butt is wide. She came to my home. I took off my shirt and …",
"ref": "2009, Hezie Samuels, Soul Sand Grains: The Cost of No Change (in English), page 12",
"text": "A voice along with the music was “chatting” the lyrics, “Gal batty broad, she come in a mi yard, me tek off mi shirt and [...]”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"butt, bottom, buttocks (buttocks)"
],
"links": [
[
"butt",
"butt"
],
[
"bottom",
"bottom"
],
[
"buttocks",
"buttocks"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbatɪ/"
}
],
"word": "batty"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: West Indian slang, MLE, MTE",
"path": [
"batty"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "batty",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: West Indian slang, MLE, MTE",
"path": [
"batty"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "batty",
"trace": ""
}
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