mouth a massy
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Jamaican Creole
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of mouth (“mouth”) + a (“have”) + massy (“mercy”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mouth a massy (plural mouth a massy dem, quantified mouth a massy)
- chatterbox
- Lawd, da mouth a massy cyaan 'tap talk now, man?
- Lord, please make this chatterbox stop talking.
- 2020, Shenseea (lyrics and music), “Bad habit”[1]:
- Me nuh chittie, me nuh do chatty
Me nuh likkle mouth a massy […]- I'm not a talker
I'm not a chatterbox […]
- I'm not a talker
- hypocrite
- Every day dis mouth a massy talk bout 'ow 'im woulda neva lef yard, an see it deh, from 'im get visa, we nuh see 'im again.
- This hypocrite always spoke about how he'd never leave Jamaica but once he got that visa, he was gone.
- 2013, Supa Squad (lyrics and music), “System Ovaload”[2]:
- Say dem a fenky fenky, mouth-a-massy
Nuff of dem a chatty chatty
Gwaan like dem a Tikki tikki
Dem a make I sicky sicky […]- They're weak hypocrites
Many of them talk too much
They're like little river fish
They make me sick […]
- They're weak hypocrites