peenie wallie
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[edit]peenie wallie (plural peenie wallie dem, quantified peenie wallie)
- A firefly. A nocturnal beetle that emits a flashing light.
- Synonyms: blinkie, abuja
- What a way di peenie wallie dem pretty a night time.
- It's so lovely to see the fireflies at night.
- 2010, Jennifer M. Keane-Dawes, Dear Jamaica: Expressions of Indigenous Knowledge, →ISBN, page 9:
- “Den now, when night come, everybaddy bungle up pon de porch inna di darkness. Wid peenie wallie a flash like when matches hard fe light. […] ”
- And so, when it got dark, everyone huddled together on the porch in the darkness, with fireflies blinking like a match which you're having trouble lighting. […]