Jamaicann.adj.

Brit.

/dʒəˈmeɪk(ə)n/, U.S.

/dʒəˈmeɪkən/, Caribbean English /dʒaˈmeːkan/, /dʒʌˈmeːkʌn/

Forms: 1600s Iamaican, 1600s– Jamaican.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Jamaica , -an suffix.

Etymology: < Jamaica, the name of an island and (subsequently) a country in the Greater Antilles + -an suffix. Compare Jamaica n.The name of the island is ultimately < a Taino place name, probably with a literal sense ‘large place with water’ (recorded as Jamaica in a Spanish context in 1493). The name is attested in Spanish use from a1494 and in English use from the mid 16th cent. (earliest as Iamaica).

A. n.

1. A native or inhabitant of Jamaica; a person of Jamaican descent.Formerly a British colony, Jamaica gained independence in 1962.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [noun] > specific islands

Jamaican1613

Bermudian1645

Bermudan1659

Barbadian1671

Anguillan1745

Anguillian1745

Guadeloupean1762

Antiguan1778

Grenadian1786

Haitian1805

Trinidadian1806

St Lucian1818

Puerto Rican1823

Dominican1826

Grenadan1826

Barbudian1830

Bajan1832

Bim1833

Little Englander1833

Tobagonian1849

Cuban1850

Virgin Islander1852

Tortolan1863

Martiniquais1890

Martiniquan1891

Vincentian1907

Guadeloupan1908

Barbadian English1911

Trinidadian English1925

Kittitian1945

Bajie1960

Kittian1960

Trini1972

yardie1984

yardie1986

Baje1990

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. xvi. 452 Columbus vsed the simplicity of the Iamaicans to his preseruation.

1770 W. Guthrie New Geogr. Gram. 613 The Jamaicans were undoubtedly very numerous, until reduced by earthquakes.

1858 Harper's Mag. Mar. 469/2 Nearing our wharf, the streets..were opened to the view, filled with motley groups of Jamaicans..all chattering, jabbering, gesticulating, and hurrahing their delight at our arrival.

1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners (1995) 78 Once he make a cheap garbadeen suit for a Jamaican and hit him twenty-five guineas, and since that time the boys give the shop a long walk.

2014 M. James Brief Hist. Seven Killings (2015) 112 Jamaicans need to know that them leaders can work it.

2. A cigar made in Jamaica or from Jamaican tobacco.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cheroot > cigar > type of

Bermuda?a1641

Havana1802

regalia1819

long nine1821

short-six1831

loco-foco1835

Cuba1837

cabana1840

panatela1841

Habanero1845

pickwick1847

colorado maduro1851

colorado1854

colorado claro1854

maduro1854

Henry Clay1855

Trichinopoli chain1863

trichi1877

perfecto1884

claro1891

toby1894

twofera1911

Jamaican1919

1919 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 9 Oct. 3/6 Smoking Jamaicans instead of Havanas will help to forge another link in the chain of imperial unity.

1971 ‘A. York’ Infiltrator x. 144 Lucinda carefully pierced his cigar... ‘I like these stogies... Better than your Jamaicans.’

1985 A. Sillitoe Life goes On i. 21 He brought out a silver cigar case of real Havanas. I smoked Jamaicans which were just as good.

3. The variety of English spoken in Jamaica.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > Caribbean English > varieties of

Jamaican English1880

Barbadian English1890

Jamaican1924

Bahamian English1952

Dominican English1955

Trinidadian English1959

Guyanese English1967

Kittitian1973

Antiguan English1978

1924 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 26 Aug. 8/7 The [political] questions were of..(let us speak Jamaican) ‘paramount importance’.

1960 R. B. Le Page Jamaican Creole x. 120 The grammar of Standard Jamaican is not very greatly different from that of Standard English.

1994 Amer. Speech 69 230 Nouns are generally pluralized by adding the third person plural pronoun, either postnominally, as in Jamaican and Gullah, or prenominally.

B. adj.

Of, belonging to, or relating to Jamaica or Jamaicans.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > West Indies > [adjective] > specific islands or countries

Bermudan1625

Jamaican1670

Bermudian1681

Antillean1738

Guadeloupean1762

Dominican1766

Grenadian1772

Bajan1789

Trinidadian1809

Haitian1811

Tortolan1819

Cuban1829

St Lucian1831

Dominican1844

Puerto Rican1865

Vincentian1902

Bajie1921

Martiniquan1926

Santo Domingan1934

Guadeloupan1941

Kittitian1958

Baje1973

Trini1973

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [adjective] > specific islands

Bermudan1625

Jamaican1670

Bermudian1681

Barbadian1692

Guadeloupean1762

Dominican1766

Anguillian1779

Antiguan1781

Bajan1789

Anguillan1806

Trinidadian1809

Puerto Rican1865

Tobagonian1882

Grenadan1886

Barbudian1890

Bajie1921

Guadeloupan1941

onion1951

Kittitian1958

Kittian1960

Nassauvian1961

Baje1973

Trini1973

yardie1986

1670 R. Coke Disc. Trade i. 12 How easily do they every year receive the impulsion, devastation and plunder of a few Jamaican Capers?

1881 Handbk. Jamaica iv. 131 The Calipeva or ‘Jamaica Salmon’..ranks among three specially Jamaican dainties.

1955 Caribbean Q. 4 ii. 125, 4 Jamaican plums, hard round sugar sweets, a roast corn.

2016 K. Miller Augustown (2017) xiv. 139 Jamaican parents who do not see fit to send their children to places where anything so flippant as fun might be encouraged.

Derivatives

Jaˈmaicanism n. a word, phrase, or other use of language characteristic of, peculiar to, or originating from Jamaica.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > Caribbean English > idiom of

Jamaicanism1929

1929 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 25 Feb. 21/4 (advt.) ‘Shot-O J.K.!’—a jolly Jamaicanism.

2018 Transition No. 125 20 Slackness is the Jamaicanism used to describe the morally questionable, lewd, and the illicitly sexual.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	jamaican
释义	Jamaicann.adj. Brit. /dʒəˈmeɪk(ə)n/, U.S. /dʒəˈmeɪkən/, Caribbean English /dʒaˈmeːkan/, /dʒʌˈmeːkʌn/ Forms: 1600s Iamaican, 1600s– Jamaican. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Jamaica , -an suffix. Etymology: < Jamaica, the name of an island and (subsequently) a country in the Greater Antilles + -an suffix. Compare Jamaica n.The name of the island is ultimately < a Taino place name, probably with a literal sense ‘large place with water’ (recorded as Jamaica in a Spanish context in 1493). The name is attested in Spanish use from a1494 and in English use from the mid 16th cent. (earliest as Iamaica). A. n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Jamaica; a person of Jamaican descent.Formerly a British colony, Jamaica gained independence in 1962. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [noun] > specific islands Jamaican1613 Bermudian1645 Bermudan1659 Barbadian1671 Anguillan1745 Anguillian1745 Guadeloupean1762 Antiguan1778 Grenadian1786 Haitian1805 Trinidadian1806 St Lucian1818 Puerto Rican1823 Dominican1826 Grenadan1826 Barbudian1830 Bajan1832 Bim1833 Little Englander1833 Tobagonian1849 Cuban1850 Virgin Islander1852 Tortolan1863 Martiniquais1890 Martiniquan1891 Vincentian1907 Guadeloupan1908 Barbadian English1911 Trinidadian English1925 Kittitian1945 Bajie1960 Kittian1960 Trini1972 yardie1984 yardie1986 Baje1990 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. xvi. 452 Columbus vsed the simplicity of the Iamaicans to his preseruation. 1770 W. Guthrie New Geogr. Gram. 613 The Jamaicans were undoubtedly very numerous, until reduced by earthquakes. 1858 Harper's Mag. Mar. 469/2 Nearing our wharf, the streets..were opened to the view, filled with motley groups of Jamaicans..all chattering, jabbering, gesticulating, and hurrahing their delight at our arrival. 1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners (1995) 78 Once he make a cheap garbadeen suit for a Jamaican and hit him twenty-five guineas, and since that time the boys give the shop a long walk. 2014 M. James Brief Hist. Seven Killings (2015) 112 Jamaicans need to know that them leaders can work it. 2. A cigar made in Jamaica or from Jamaican tobacco. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cheroot > cigar > type of Bermuda?a1641 Havana1802 regalia1819 long nine1821 short-six1831 loco-foco1835 Cuba1837 cabana1840 panatela1841 Habanero1845 pickwick1847 colorado maduro1851 colorado1854 colorado claro1854 maduro1854 Henry Clay1855 Trichinopoli chain1863 trichi1877 perfecto1884 claro1891 toby1894 twofera1911 Jamaican1919 1919 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 9 Oct. 3/6 Smoking Jamaicans instead of Havanas will help to forge another link in the chain of imperial unity. 1971 ‘A. York’ Infiltrator x. 144 Lucinda carefully pierced his cigar... ‘I like these stogies... Better than your Jamaicans.’ 1985 A. Sillitoe Life goes On i. 21 He brought out a silver cigar case of real Havanas. I smoked Jamaicans which were just as good. 3. The variety of English spoken in Jamaica. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > Caribbean English > varieties of Jamaican English1880 Barbadian English1890 Jamaican1924 Bahamian English1952 Dominican English1955 Trinidadian English1959 Guyanese English1967 Kittitian1973 Antiguan English1978 1924 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 26 Aug. 8/7 The [political] questions were of..(let us speak Jamaican) ‘paramount importance’. 1960 R. B. Le Page Jamaican Creole x. 120 The grammar of Standard Jamaican is not very greatly different from that of Standard English. 1994 Amer. Speech 69 230 Nouns are generally pluralized by adding the third person plural pronoun, either postnominally, as in Jamaican and Gullah, or prenominally. B. adj. Of, belonging to, or relating to Jamaica or Jamaicans. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > West Indies > [adjective] > specific islands or countries Bermudan1625 Jamaican1670 Bermudian1681 Antillean1738 Guadeloupean1762 Dominican1766 Grenadian1772 Bajan1789 Trinidadian1809 Haitian1811 Tortolan1819 Cuban1829 St Lucian1831 Dominican1844 Puerto Rican1865 Vincentian1902 Bajie1921 Martiniquan1926 Santo Domingan1934 Guadeloupan1941 Kittitian1958 Baje1973 Trini1973 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [adjective] > specific islands Bermudan1625 Jamaican1670 Bermudian1681 Barbadian1692 Guadeloupean1762 Dominican1766 Anguillian1779 Antiguan1781 Bajan1789 Anguillan1806 Trinidadian1809 Puerto Rican1865 Tobagonian1882 Grenadan1886 Barbudian1890 Bajie1921 Guadeloupan1941 onion1951 Kittitian1958 Kittian1960 Nassauvian1961 Baje1973 Trini1973 yardie1986 1670 R. Coke Disc. Trade i. 12 How easily do they every year receive the impulsion, devastation and plunder of a few Jamaican Capers? 1881 Handbk. Jamaica iv. 131 The Calipeva or ‘Jamaica Salmon’..ranks among three specially Jamaican dainties. 1955 Caribbean Q. 4 ii. 125, 4 Jamaican plums, hard round sugar sweets, a roast corn. 2016 K. Miller Augustown (2017) xiv. 139 Jamaican parents who do not see fit to send their children to places where anything so flippant as fun might be encouraged. Derivatives Jaˈmaicanism n. a word, phrase, or other use of language characteristic of, peculiar to, or originating from Jamaica. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > Caribbean English > idiom of Jamaicanism1929 1929 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 25 Feb. 21/4 (advt.) ‘Shot-O J.K.!’—a jolly Jamaicanism. 2018 Transition No. 125 20 Slackness is the Jamaicanism used to describe the morally questionable, lewd, and the illicitly sexual. 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