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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Jamaican Creole mampy.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmæmˌpi/
- Hyphenation: mam‧py
Adjective
mampy (not comparable)
- (Caribbean, Jamaica) grossly overweight; heavyset
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Jamaican Creole
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:“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. […] ”