See natty on Wiktionary
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},
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20
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"english": "Your hair's so nappy.",
"text": "What a way yuh 'ead natty.",
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"english": "Dreadlocked with a scruffy beard. […]",
"ref": "2010, Mel Cooke, “Mid-90s Rasta revolution withers”, in The Jamaica Gleaner (in Jamaican Creole):",
"text": "“Natty natty pon head, picky picky dung a chin. […]”",
"translation": "Dreadlocked with a scruffy beard. […]",
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"ipa": "/ˈnatɪ/"
}
],
"word": "natty"
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"Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header",
"Jamaican Creole lemmas",
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"Jamaican Creole terms derived from English",
"Jamaican Creole verbs",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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"word": "natty dread"
},
{
"word": "natty dreadlocks"
}
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"2": "en",
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"name": "der"
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"english": "He's grown his locks.",
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"english": "By his deeds shall a man be known\nYou've grown dreadlocks but you're still a slave to the system […]",
"ref": "2014, Gordon Robinson, “Tainted morality”, in The Jamaica Gleaner (in English):",
"text": "“By his deeds shall a man be known\nNatty up your head and worship Babylon throne […]”",
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