tallawah
Jamaican Creole edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
tallawah
- powerful, strong, tough.
- Wi likkle but wi tallawah!
- We are small but we are strong!
- 2003, Louise Bennett, Mervyn Morris, Aunty Roachy Seh, →ISBN, page 51:
- “Dem young but dem tallawah. "Me seh, 'Yes, Aunty Roachy, dem tallawah fi true […] ”
- They're young but they're strong. "I said, 'Yes, Aunty Roachy, they're really strong […]
References edit
- ^ Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 546
Further reading edit
- tallawah – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary