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Jamaican Creole
Etymology
Literally, "a bag of."
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈa ˈbaɡ‿a/
- Hyphenation: a‧bag‧a
Determiner
a bag a
- a lot of; lots of; much; many (large amount)
Mi see 'im wah day wid a bag a phone a sell outta Cross Road.- I saw him selling a lot of cellphones in Cross Roads recently.
2018, Shelley Sykes-Coley, Chat ’Bout!: An Anthology of Jamaican Conversations, →ISBN:“Mi fat, mi fat, mi fat, mi fat so 'til, mi look like mi nyam a bag a chicken pill. Mi cyan [...] Tings start fi rub, dat neva used to rub before an' now 'pon top a dat, mi have cellulite galore; den mi have swollen ankles an' nuff joint pain, dat come een like a [...]”- I'm fat, fat, fat, fat, so much so that, it seems as if I'm taking lots of human growth hormone. I can Parts of my body are starting to touch which didn't touch before. In addition, I have a lot of cellulite; my ankles are swollen and I have a lot of joint pain. It seems like
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