mampy
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Jamaican Creole mampy.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmæmˌpi/
- Hyphenation: mam‧py
Adjective
mampy (not comparable)
References
- ^ Eric Partridge (2005) “mampy”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1261.
Anagrams
Jamaican Creole
Alternative forms
- mampi, mampie
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmamˌpɪ/
- Hyphenation: mam‧pi
Adjective
mampy
- big, fat, huge, obese
- Synonyms: swarthy, wagga-wagga
- Mampy gyal a di lick now.
- Big women are the craze now.
- 2015, Oxy Moron, “Whaa gwaan Obaama?”, in The Jamaica Gleaner[1] (in Jamaican Creole):
- “Di crab peeple dem wheh dem neva waa yuh fi si, dem come bak wid di crab dem wid dem big mampy claw. […] ”
- The crab vendors, who they didn't want you to see, came back with those crabs with the huge claw. […]
Noun
mampy (plural mampy dem, quantified mampy)
- BBW; an obese woman
- Mawga gyal cyaan satisfy me. A one real mampy mi waan.
- A skinny girl can't satisfy me. I need a Big Woman.
- 2014, Joan Williams, Shawn Grant, Original Dancehall Dictionary: Learning to speak like a Jamaican (in English), →ISBN:
- “MAMPY: An extremely obese woman. Sexist Dancehall has not coined a special word for fat men so we still call them big belly man and believe it or not, they are in demand. […] ”