Jafaican
UK/dʒəˈfeɪkən/
Jafaican proper noun: multicultural London English.
Proper noun
Jafaican
- Multicultural London English.
- Forget Cockney, Brummie, Geordie and Scouse, according to the Daily Mail — who else? — Jafaican is laying siege to our inner-city accents and is infiltrating the sacred English language. Soon we may all be familiar with creps (trainers), yard (home), yoot (child), blud (mate) and bitch (girlfriend).2006, June: Archibald St John Smith, How British is That?!: The Eccentric British Guide Book, pages 33–34 (Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited; →ISBN)
- […] from Cockney, or East London, terminology to a style called “Jafaican”, which has elements of Jamaican and African street talk.2007 March 16, Debbie Stowe, Paul Stump, Who is Borat?: The Unauthorized Biography of Sacha Baron Cohen, Barnes & Noble, →ISBN, page 122, →ISBN
Examples of Jafaican in a sentence
- She is frowning, hiding her nervousness of Suzy’s presence behind the Jafaican babble.2007 June 28, María Alvarez, Mirror, Mirror, Fig Tree, →ISBN, page 88, →ISBN:
- I do not mean someone unable to speak the English language, although that is another variation on it; I mean the usage of ‘street’ talk or ‘Jafaican’ as it is sometimes referred to.2007 December 17, Bobby Smith, Margaret Oshindele-Smith, One Love Two Colours: The Unlikely Marriage of a Punk Rocker and His African...
- While attitudes are always changing, and new varieties of Black English, such as Jafaican, are said to be developing, […]2008, January: Janet Holmes, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, page 413 (3rd edition; Pearson Education; →ISBN, 9781405821315)
- For this reasons it is sometimes called, erroneously, “Hinglish” or “Jafaican”.a. 2009, Ignacio Ramos, A. Jesús Moya Guijarro, and José Ignacio Albentosa Hernández [eds.], New Trends in English Teacher Education, page...
Forms of Jafaican
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Origin of Jafaican
Blend of Jamaican + fake.
Questions about Jafaican
- What does Jafaican mean?
- Jafaican means multicultural London English.
- How do you use Jafaican in a sentence?
- She is frowning, hiding her nervousness of Suzy’s presence behind the Jafaican babble.
- What part of speech is Jafaican?
- Jafaican is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Jafaican?
- Jafaican is pronounced /dʒəˈfeɪkən/ (UK).
Words near Jafaican in the dictionary
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