kiangkro

Jamaican Creole

kiangkro

Etymology

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Noun

kiangkro (plural kiangkro dem, quantified kiangkro)

1. turkey vulture (common New World vulture)
   • 2014 May 28, Larry Chang, Biesik Jumiekan: Introduction to Jamaican Language, Gnosophia Publishers, →ISBN, page 100:

     Kiangkro waah go liiwod siibriiz koh bluo im de. Ebri tob mek fisidong pan yuona batam. Wen kiangkro simaaga kou, ih ruos plaahn fiim. No wiet teljrom biit bifuo yu grain yu hax. Uu no vii no vaa, ah uu no vaa no vii […]

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2. (figuratively, colloquial) vulture (person who profits from the suffering of others)

Further reading

• kiangkro on the Jamaican Creole Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^jam