Definition: pronunciation for "cock." Can be slang for a man's penis.
Examples: "She cack up she bana [to dance]" = "She cocked up her rear end." "Dis man geh a big cack."
Source: Page 74, Sterns, Robin. Say it in Crucian! A Complete Guide to Today's Crucian for Speakers of Standard English. St. Croix: Antilles Press, 2008.
Added to by: La La, 2009.

Definition: pronunciation of "because."
Example: "I cyan go cah I sick bad, meson."
Alternative spellings: cu
Source: Page 74, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: literally "corn," used to refer to smoking marijuana.
Source: Page 74, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: "cannot" or "can't."
Example: "She carn drive."
Source: Page 74, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: (rhymes with "ear") - pronunciation for "care."
Example: "Me ain care!"
Source: Page 74, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: Used where a Standard English speaker might say (of a scammer) "take me for my money."
Example: "Das de friggin 3rd time dem same promoters catch me fo my money but not again!"
Posted by: doctropic, 2009.

Definition: From the Spanish "Chavos," for money.
Example: "Carry plenty of chabos to Festival Village."
Posted by: doctropic, 2010.

Definition: pronunciation for "charcoal," can refer to a dark-skinned Black person.
Source: Page 74, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: slang for (1) "understand" ("ya check?") or (2) "check out/listen to/experience" ("Me gon check dis vibe", "Chek ya latah!")
Alternative spellings: chek
Source: Page 74, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: euphemism that substitutes for what might be a ruder expression of frustration.
Example:"Cyar registration line cyan done, meson. Cheese and bread!"
Source: Page 74, Say it in Crucian!
Alternative spellings: geez an bred, geezumbread
Definition: used to express "give me a break," "I can't believe this shit," "ah, damn," and my English favorite "oh my goodness."
Source: Julie, on Facebook, 2006.

Definition: Shards of glazed pottery, formerly used by children as playthings and now used by St. Croix jewelers like ib Designs and Crucian Gold to make jewelry. A quote from the Crucian Gold website: "All over the island you can find broken shards of china dating back to colonial times. Children would wear down the edges to make coin-shaped pieces for use as play money and gave them the Crucian vernacular name chaney. Crucian Gold skillfully sets these remnants of Delftware, Willow Ware and Flow Blue to make one-of-a-kind jewelry, each piece being a unique, microcosmic window to the past."
Alternative spellings: chainee (pages 22-23, Valls, Lito. What a Pistarckle! A Dictionary of Virgin Islands English Creole. St. John, USVI. 1981.)

Definition: "Chi Chi Man, Anti Man, Faggit, Batty Man.... These are all words for a gay man. 'Look at this Chi Chi Man nuh! He gay scunt!'"
Source: Eboni, on Facebook, 2006.

Definition: a young woman only interested in young men for their money and nice cars.
Example: "I jus got a new whip and now all these chicken heads be sweatin me."
Source: Page 55, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: pronunciation of "children."
Alternative spellings: chi'ren, chirren
Source: Page 74, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: to poke or stab.
Alternative spellings: jook
Source: Page 74, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: December 26, Boxing Day.
Posted by: doctropic, 2009.

Definition: like saying, "I see how you acting" or "I see how u treating me." "Nah man iz all good, I see how we chuckin it" or "Das how we chuckin it?"
Source: Kimberli, on Facebook, 2007.

Definition: the act of pouting and sucking teeth simultaneously to express irritation or disagreement.
Example: "When my cellphone cut out ah chupse meh teeth and I keep goin."
Source: Page 75, Say it in Crucian!
Definition: "The sound made by pouting and sucking one's teeth in a manner probably African in origin but which, among West Indians, has been elevated to a minor art form. It is used by both sexes of all ages from puberty onwards, and knows no social, class or colour barriers. It provides a distinctive, wordless and highly expressive way of indicating anything from extreme annoyance, through incredulous disbelief, disgust and indignation, to amused tolerance and self-reproach."
Source: Dyde, Brian. Caribbean Companion: The A to Z Reference. London: MacMillan Press, 1993.
Alternative spellings: add as many u's as you like = chuuupse, chuups

Definition: slang for "church"
Example: "Gots my locks twisted, bitchezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, lol, now ima look decent 4 churchizzle in da morn!!!"
See also: izzle
Posted by: Vanessa, 2009.

Definition: refers to a light-skinned Black person.
Source: Page 75, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: pronunciation for "clown," used derisively.
Example: "Somebody tak to dis clung before he pickup some blows."
Source: Page 75, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: Getting in the way of someone trying to get their groove on.
Example: "Mehson you duh cock block yah!"
Posted by: Fatty

Definition: Hot chocolate.
Example: Ronnie Lockhart, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: a swelling on the head caused by a hit.
Source: Page 75, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: to beat thoroughly, as in a game.
Example: "The Yankees comb the Red Sox four straight!"
Source: Ronnie Lockhart, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: rude slang for "vagina."
Source: Page 75, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: someone from the United States.
Source: Page 75, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: relaxing, doing just fine.
Example: "I jus deh ya coolin."
Alternative spellings: koolin
Source: Page 75, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: staring at, observing closely, "checking out."
Examples: "He wah coopin she." "Leh we go coop dem lock-up dudes by Club Passion."
Source: Pages 18, 75, Say it in Crucian!
Definition: To spy. De teacher coopin' me. The teacher has been keeping an eye on me.
Source: Ronnie Lockhart, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: (KOHpa), slang abbreviation of the adjective "copasetic," to mean "everything is fine, cool"
Source: Andrea, on Facebook, 2007.

Definition: Trash, junk, valueless items.
Example: "Where da paraman goin wit' all da carotle?"
Source: Ronnie Lockhart, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: St. Thomas equivalent of the Crucian "goat foot woman" (see that entry).
Example: "i remember going behind TuTu school to pick kenep and people woud scream out missun ahyo here pickin' kenep Cowfoot Lady coming... everybody would scatter. I remember the stories about her as well; including the time they say she took a taxi down fourwinds and the taxi man keep looking back at her foot them that were sticking outward; finally he look back to ask her wa kinda foot them was and she had disappeared...and there was a five dollar bill sitting in the seat."
Source: Seen on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: expression from Stateside urban slang to refer to a person who is addicted to crack cocaine.
Source: Page 75, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: from urban slang, refers to one's domicile.
Example: "I jus came from the crib."
Source: Page 75, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: (1) very nice, perfect, ideal ("Dat ride so new dah ting still lookin cris, de man"). (2) can refer to a great sense of satisfaction ("After I see her I was feelin crist.")
Alternative spellings: kris, kriss, crist
Source: Page 75, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: Lame, crooked, askew.
Example: "Dat bwoy built some shelf, but dey crookedy."
Source: Ronnie Lockhart, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands ("Crucian kallaloo") or a person born on the island. Some spell it "Cruzan"; others say "Cruzan refers to the rum, Crucian to the people." Sometimes pronounced more toward the "zh," as in "measure" or "azure"; sometimes more toward "sh," as in "sure." Never pronounced "z" as in "cruising."
Source: Page 75, Say it in Crucian!
Example: "Cru-shan brehd ahn foongie fehd!!!!Cru-shan ahl dih way!!!!"
Source: Wayne, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: to be "on Crucian time" is to be late, often shockingly late (according to Stateside standards.) Certain events, like the annual Crucian Christmas Festival parade, are famous for starting several hours late. As the saying goes, "On St. Croix, if you're half an hour late, you're fifteen minutes early!"
Source: Page 55, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: from Stateside slang, to have a passing infatuation for, a "crush."
Example: "I could tell she was crushing on me."
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: from Stateside slang, a portmanteau word meaning crazy + drunk.
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: pronounced CROOZ, nickname for St. Croix, from "Santa Cruz."
Example: "Yoh back in Cruz?"
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!
Example: "I is proud to be from cruz de man!"
Source: Del, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: adapted from "Ebonics," Stateside term for African-American speech patterns. Used to refer to "youth Crucian" (as used by young people today.)
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: alternate spelling for "come."
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: "Come here." To ask a person to come here.
Posted by: Yáminah89, 2009.

Definition: used when Standard English speakers would say "electricity" or "power."
Example: "WAPA cut de current." = "The V.I. Water and Power Auithority cut the power to my house.")
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: pronunciation of "cannot," "can't."
Examples: "She cyan reach in time," "I cyan stan deh gyul."
Alternative spellings: kyan
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: To curse, use profanity.
Example: "She cus them out for she picknee them."
Posted by: Yáminah89, 2009.

Definition: Refers to actual cousins, or people you know. A term of familiarity.
Posted by: Yáminah89, 2009.

Definition: expression meaning endless supply or never ending.
Example: "At Carnival, deh food and libation cyan done."
Alternative spellings: can done
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: pronunciation for "car."
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!
Note: Historican Dr. Arnold Highfield notes that the large number of Irish on St. Croix, starting in the 1760s had an impact on some pronunciations in Crucian. "Cyar" for "car," "cyan" for "can't" and Cyart" for "cart" are pronunciations shared by parts of Ireland, particularly County Cavan. See Highfield, Arnold. "The Irish on St. Croix." Continuing the Legacy: St. Croix Landmarks Society 60th Anniversary magazine (2008): 24-26.

Definition: pronunciation for "cat."
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!

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