Wednesday

Jamaican Pet/Nick names

I made a post a couple of days ago about Jamaican names and someone said that I should should list the pet names of Jamaicans and those would sound more like Jamaican names rather than their regular names.

What are your thoughts? 

If you are reading this from another country other than Jamaica please share if any of these names are used in your country.

Do I need to also put the history behind each name?

Some of these are derived based on something that the person did, or physical features that they possess.


  1. Chubby
  2. Queenie
  3. Footy
  4. Juicy
  5. Browning
  6. Smelly
  7. Get-shot
  8. Oney
  9. Back fist
  10. Tin grin
  11. Lippo
  12. Smiley
  13.  Twinny
  14. Cawsey
  15. Shorty
  16. Parrow
  17. Bawla
  18. Stamma
  19. Bumpy
  20. Blacka
  21. Sleepy
  22. Droopy
  23. Princess
  24. Strength
  25. Brains
  26. skinny
  27. Fatta
  28. Bigga 
  29. Likkle
  30. Fatty
  31. Bowlo
  32. Samfy
  33. dolla
  34. Tall-man
  35. Poochie
  36. Country
  37. Fambily
  38. Skipper

By -

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

The 6 secrets to the Jamaican Way of Life

It is not uncommon to hear about dementia and cancer in the states. As a matter f fat it almost seems like a given after you get to a certai...

  • Jamaican Card games
    Playing cards was one of my favorite pass times during the summer as a child. It was right up there with swinging from the trees a...
  • Black man, Chiney man and White man - Jamaican Jokes
    As a child these were the jokes we shared. Since racism was not a thing in Jamaica, it was quite fine to use these jokes. No one took off...
  • some Jamaican ring/circle games
    If you know how any of these rings games are played please provide the instructions below. Also if there are some folk songs or rings games ...