prekeh
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Jamaican Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish pereque.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]prekeh
- confusion, scandal, trouble
- Synonym: mix-up
- What a prekeh! Yuh nuh hear wah gwaan dung deh?
- What a scandal! Haven't you heard what's happening over there?
- 2017, Miss Kitty, “Hell, fire and bangarang”, in The Jamaica Star[1] (in Jamaican Creole), archived from the original on 17 October 2020:
- “What a prekeh! Bangarang time again inna Jamaica! Unuh know seh when election inna di air, tingz nuh normal! […] ”
- What a scandal! It's controversy time once again in Jamaica! You all know that when it's election season, nothing is normal! […]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 453