forty leg
Jamaican Creole
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editSome centipedes literally appear to have forty legs. Compare Hindi चालीसपद (cālīspad), Turkish kırkayak.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editforty leg (plural forty leg dem, quantified forty leg)
- A centipede. A segmented arthropod of class Chilopoda.
- If forty leg bite yuh, yuh fenneh.
- If a centipede bites you, you'll be in a lot of pain.
- 2018, Michael Abrahams, “Stop spread propaganda pon di dread”, in The Jamaica Gleaner[1] (in English):
- “Me seh fi stop spread propaganda pon di dread
Cause di dread nuh have nuh forty-leg inna him head […] ”- I'm asking you to stop spreading propaganda about the Rastaman
Because the Rastaman doesn't have centipedes in his hair […]
- I'm asking you to stop spreading propaganda about the Rastaman