"yardie" meaning in Jamaican Creole

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Noun

IPA: /jɑːdɪ/, /jɔːdɪ/ Audio: Jam-yardie.oga Forms: yardie dem [plural], yardie [quantified]
Etymology: Yard (“Jamaica”) + -ie Etymology templates: {{suffix|jam|Yard|ie|t1=Jamaica}} Yard (“Jamaica”) + -ie Head templates: {{head|jam|nouns|10=|head=yardie}} yardie, {{jam-noun}} yardie (plural yardie dem, quantified yardie)
  1. Jamaican Synonyms: yaadie, yawdie, Yaadie, Yardie, Yawdie Related terms: yard, Yard man

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Download JSON data for yardie meaning in Jamaican Creole (2.2kB)

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          "english": "Many Jamaicans who live overseas wish they could go back to Jamaica.",
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          "ref": "2011, Kamille Gentles-Peart, Maurice L. Hall, Re-Constructing Place and Space: Media, Culture, Discourse (in English), page 47",
          "text": "Nuff foreign yardie was flying dung fe de holidays. De fair skin airplane lady a de airport was preaching to evrybaddy fe please, Check on only two piece a baggage an carry de littlest one pon de plane.",
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        "Jamaican Creole terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with audio links",
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      "word": "Yawdie"
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