释义 |
nyam /ˈnjam /West Indian verb [with object]Eat: whoever nyam dem left de empty box, nuttin' else!...- I was happily nyaming some curried shrimp for my lunch at the food court of one of the more popular malls here.
- This mango she bought survived Metres’ visit and so I decided to nyam it this afternoon.
- One time long ago, I used to nyam oysters too, and I didn't really see any marked improvement in my staying power still.
noun [mass noun]Food.Yow, I can recall in the days when Mad Bull and I used to go session that where there was food, it was a go get nyam!...- It was probably slave traders who introduced the sweet potato to Africa, where it was called igname or nyam, which simply means ‘yam’.
- In Jamaican patois, the word nyam endearingly means eat.
OriginFrom a West African language, probably related to yam1. |