Definition: popular youth expression, borrowed from Stateside slang, to mean great, the best.
Example: "I wuh lookin da bomb, so I ain ha care."
Source: Page 76, Sterns, Robin. Say it in Crucian! A Complete Guide to Today's Crucian for Speakers of Standard English. St. Croix: Antilles Press, 2008.

Definition: pronunciation for "that."
Example: "You done wi dat ting o wha?"
Alternative spellings: dat
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: pronunciation for "daughter."
Alternative spellings: data, datta
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: pronunctation for "dog."
Examples: "I bruk like a dahg, mehson." = "I have a serious cash-flow problem." "De dahg took he bath."
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: proverb, to mean if someone asks a favor of you, you should do it because you might need one in the future.
Source: Page 59, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: pronunciation for "did not" or "didn't."
Example: "We dain go."
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: pronunciation for "donkey."
Example: "I had foget dah my fadda dankey bin in deh bush." = "I had forgotten that my father's donkey was there in the bush."
Source: Pages 53, 76, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: pronunciation for "that is" or "that's."
Example: "Dats all you could do? Stay fram far and fling ting?"
Alternative spellings: dass
Source: Page 76, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: Said when greeting someone you haven't seen in a long time.
Source: Seen on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: "Isn't that something!"
Source: Page 34, Valls, Lito. What a Pistarckle! A Dictionary of Virgin Islands English Creole. St. John, USVI. 1981.

Definition: "Sunrise....It is 'day clean' when one can see to walk."
Source: Page 35, What a Pistarckle!
Example: Advertising its famous "Ol' Year's Night" party, Villa Morales' ads used to say the event would last "til day clean!"

Definition: when a couple is not yet officially dating, but are on their way to be.
Example: "Are you dealin wid he?"
Source: Pages 18, 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: "the."
Example: "See de tings dem right deh."
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: used to mean "die" and "died."
Example: "Her fadda had dead."
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: pronunciation for "there," "their."
Examples: "The girl deh unda deh tree.", "It deh deh" = "It is there.")
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: Crucian for "here." St. Thomians will usually use "deh here" instead.
Example: "Deh yah in fuss bank w8tin impatienty." = "I'm here at First Bank waiting impatiently."
Source: Seen on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: used for emphasis, like "mehson."
Example: "I late deh man" = "I’m late."
Alternative spellings: deh man, de man
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: indicates plural. May come before the noun ("Look ah dem chair") or more often after ("He feed deh goat-dem", "de man dem ova dere.") In Old School Crucian, the noun would stay singular (i.e. "haas dem" = "horses"), but today people often combine Crucian and Standard English ("books dem.")
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: expression to mean converts to a cause are the most fanatic.
Source: Ronnie Lockhart, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: used to mean "et cetera."
Source: Tai, on Facebook, 2007.

Definition: "they."
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: "those people."
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: "It is said about town. It is gossiped. Literally: They say."
Source: Page 35, What a Pistarckle!
Example: The website Demmansay.com bills itself as "News, issues, and happenings that affect each and everyone of us should know, but won't find out through mainstream media."

Definition: slang for "phone number."
Example: "Naturally your boy got the digits an we goin out on Saturday fo sho."
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: slow thinker.
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: "Do that again, and you're going to find out how much yellow butter costs a pound!" = Don't even THINK of doing that again.
Source: Ronnie Lockhart, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: the pronunciation for "do" and "does" is DUH. In Crucian, "does" is used when forming declarative sentences and questions about continuing action:
"You does speak Spanish?"
"You does eat saltfish?"
"You da speak Yankee?" = "Do you speak [American-style] English?"
"The sun duh be blazing hot!"
Alternative spellings: doh, da, duh
Source: Pages 43-44, 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: Crucian of Dominican Republic descent.
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: pronunciation for "do not" or "don't."
Example: "I don sing."
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: expression to mean don't do half the job, don't cheat."
Example: "Wash my car good, don give me a six for a nine."
Source: Page 59, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: expression to mean know your limitations.
Source: Ronnie Lockhart, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: a very long time.
Examples: "He bin gone from ya donkey years." "Meain see she in donkey years."
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: Expression to mean don't go out looking for trouble.
Source: Ronnie Lockhart, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: pronunciation for "drop."
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: (1) can refer to a Rastafarian or someone who wears dreadlocks, (2) can be used as a slang form of emphasis at the end of a sentence ("I deh ya dread" = "I am here.")
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!
Example: "yo dat Frig does piss me off dred!"
Source: Storme, on Facebook, 2007.

Definition: pronunciation for "down."
Example: "We goin dung de road."
Source: Page 77, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: pronunciation for "dirty."
Source: Page 78, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: "Dirty hands make for a greasy mouth," meaning that people who work will always eat.
Source: Ronnie Lockhart, on Facebook, 2009.

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