bes in Jamaican Creole

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{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jam",
        "2": "superlative adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "bes",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
  "lang_code": "jam",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 22 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Do your best and make haste to come see me",
          "ref": "2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 2 Timoti 4:9:",
          "text": "Du yu bes an mikies kom si mi.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "best",
          "word": "gud"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "superlative degree of gud: best"
      ],
      "id": "en-bes-jam-adj-Tflso6jp",
      "links": [
        [
          "gud",
          "gud#Jamaican_Creole"
        ],
        [
          "best",
          "best"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bes"
}

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{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jam",
        "2": "superlative adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "bes",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
  "lang_code": "jam",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header",
        "Jamaican Creole non-lemma forms",
        "Jamaican Creole superlative adjectives",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 22 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Do your best and make haste to come see me",
          "ref": "2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 2 Timoti 4:9:",
          "text": "Du yu bes an mikies kom si mi.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "best",
          "word": "gud"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "superlative degree of gud: best"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gud",
          "gud#Jamaican_Creole"
        ],
        [
          "best",
          "best"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bes"
}

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"bes" meaning in Jamaican Creole

Adjective