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mampy

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Jamaican Creole mampy.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmæmˌpi/
  • Hyphenation: mam‧py

Adjective

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mampy (not comparable)

  1. (Caribbean, Jamaica) grossly overweight; heavyset

References

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  1. ^ Eric Partridge (2005) “mampy”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1261.

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Jamaican Creole

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmamˌpɪ/
  • Hyphenation: mam‧pi

Adjective

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mampy

  1. big, fat, huge, obese
    Synonyms: swarthy, wagga-wagga
    Mampy gyal a di lick now.
    Big women are the craze now.
    • 2015, Oxy Moron, “Whaa gwaan Obaama?”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎[1]:
      “Di crab peeple dem wheh dem neva waa yuh fi si, dem come bak wid di crab dem wid dem big mampy claw. […] ”
      The crab vendors, who they didn't want you to see, came back with those crabs with the huge claw. […]

Noun

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mampy (plural mampy dem, quantified mampy)

  1. BBW; an obese woman
    Mawga gyal cyaan satisfy me. A one real mampy mi waan.
    A skinny girl can't satisfy me. I need a Big Woman.
    • 2014, Joan Williams, Shawn Grant, Original Dancehall Dictionary: Learning to speak like a Jamaican (in English), →ISBN:
      “MAMPY: An extremely obese woman. Sexist Dancehall has not coined a special word for fat men so we still call them big belly man and believe it or not, they are in demand. […] ”
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