battyman
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battyman (plural battymen)
- Alternative form of batty man
Jamaican Creole edit
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battyman (plural battyman dem, quantified battyman)
- (vulgar, slang, derogatory) homosexual, fag (homosexual)
- 1986, Honor Ford Smith, Sistren (Organization), Lionheart Gal: Life Stories of Jamaican Women, →ISBN, page 45:
- “Den yuh hear him, 'Lawd!' Him cyaan fight. Di ongle ting him have a him mouth . Him trace like a any batty man […] ”
- Do you hear him? 'My God!' He can't fight. All he has his talk. He runs his mouth off like a fag […]
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- Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 84