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But in casual conversation and in most informal situations, everybody, including the white elite, uses Trini, a form of English based a little on the many languages that have been fed into the culture.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2015 June 21, Kevin Baldeosingh, “Comedy, seriously”, in Trinidad and Tobago Guardian:", "text": "But, challenged to say where in [John] Oliver's routine he insulted Trinidad, they either had no answer or pointed to him trying to use Trini slang when he said: \"[…] I'll just pause for a second to allow the people of Trinidad to laugh at the whitest person who ever lived attempting to speak Trini, and instead sounding real dotish, ent?\"", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "The Trinidadian Creole language." ], "links": [ [ "Trinidadian Creole", "Trinidadian Creole" ], [ "language", "language" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal) The Trinidadian Creole language." ], "tags": [ "informal" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈtrɪni/" } ], "word": "Trini" } { "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English clippings", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English proper nouns", "English terms suffixed with -i", "English uncomparable adjectives", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "etymology_number": 1, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "Trinidadian" }, "expansion": "Clipping of Trinidadian", "name": "clipping" } ], "etymology_text": "Clipping of Trinidadian.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "Trini (not comparable)", "name": "en-adjective" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English informal terms", "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 44:", "text": "I win the first fight in a straight knockout, but the second one start and […] the Trini man lick me down.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Trinidadian." ], "links": [ [ "Trinidadian", "Trinidadian" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal) Trinidadian." ], "tags": [ "informal", "not-comparable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈtrɪni/" } ], "word": "Trini" } { "categories": [ "English clippings", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English proper nouns", "English terms suffixed with -i", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "Katrina", "nocap": "1" }, "expansion": "clipping of Katrina", "name": "clipping" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "-i", "pos1": "diminutive suffix" }, "expansion": "-i (diminutive suffix)", "name": "af" } ], "etymology_text": "From a clipping of Katrina + -i (diminutive suffix).", "forms": [ { "form": "Trinis", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "s" }, "expansion": "Trini (plural Trinis)", "name": "en-prop" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "name", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English diminutives of female given names", "English female given names", "English given names", "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2004, Murray Gell-Mann, “My Father and Albert Einstein”, in John Brockman, editor, Curious Minds: How a Child becomes a Scientist, New York, NY: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 39:", "text": "Thirty years later, at a garden party in Aspen, I met a wonderful lady named Trini Barnes—Katrina McCormick Barnes. 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