Definition: used as a verb, refers to the 1985-92 TV series starring Richard Dean Anderson as a resourseful, tinkering secret agent. Used to mean "jury rig," use engenuity to solve a technical problem. ("You gonna Macgyver dat?")
Posted by: Mitch, 2009.

Definition: (pronounced mahSHET), large hand-held blade used for cutting grass.
Posted by: doctropic, 2009.

Definition: wild, crazy ("On deh plane, turbulance was mad sick!")
Source: Page 84, 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 "morning" ("Good mahnin!" "We stay fo deh whole show and end up leaving deh musi 7 o’ clock in deh marning.")
Alternative spellings: maning, marnin
Source: Page 84, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: extremely skinny, starving, meager.
Example: (proverb) "When yoh sorry foh magga hog, e tu'n 'round root yoh door" = Kindness does not necessarily bring kindness in return.
Alternative spellings: mahgah, meagah
Source: Pages 60, 84, Say it in Crucian!
Definition: (spelled "mager"), "Thin. Emaciated. Pronounced MAGAH. Danish, "mager" = Thin, gaunt. English, "Meager" = Thin, lean. French, "Maigre" = Thin."
Source: Page 74, What a Pistarkle!

Definition: used where a Standard English speaker would use "turned," referring to a birthday ("she make six," meaning "she turned six years old.")
Source: Page 85, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: female Puerto Rican.
Example: "Youza mama?"
Source: Page 85, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: to fool, trick or deceive.
Example: "I could try mamaguy my boyfriend for some money to go shopping."
Source: Page 85, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: (pronounced MOMpee) - "no see'ums," the seemingly invisible biting insects that emerge at sunset ("Mampis tearing me up, mehson!")
Source: Page 85, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: A man is smarter than a monkey.
Source: Ronnie Lockhart, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: "Like this Ashanti proverb: The hen knows when it's daybreak, but allows the rooster to make the announcement.".
Source: Ronnie Lockhart, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: huge, magnificent.
Example: "Carnival in Cruz is mas!"
Source: Page 85, Say it in Crucian!
Definition: "To masquerade. From Trinidad, where Carnival was once so called."
Source: Page 78, Valls, Lito. What a Pistarckle! A Dictionary of Virgin Islands English Creole, St. John, USVI. 1981.

Definition: idiomatic expression, to set someone straight, put them down ("Ayo don wan to know whose corn I mash today!")
Source: Page 57, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: an automatic car.
Source: Ronnie Lockhart, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: (1) wreck, ruin, tear up ("Sharri mash up she new car", "We go mash up de dance flah.") or (2) from music, a combination of different things ("She duh speak a mashup ah Crucian and Spanglish.")
Source: Page 85, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: a clique, i.e. Crucian Massive, Central High Massive, North Side Massive.
Source: Page 85, Say it in Crucian!
Example: "R3PR3S3NTING THE V.I. W3ST SID3 GROV3 PLACE MASSIV3."
Source: Kennisha, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: "me ain't" run together, for "I don't."
Source: Page 85, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: (meAYno) Crucian for "I don’t know."
Alternative spellings: meaino, meeno, meh no
More alternative spellings: mehnano, mehno
Source: Page 85, Say it in Crucian!
Added to by: Yáminah89, 2009.

Definition: pronunciation for "me" or "my."
Example: "Meh cousin Eric call meh up on meh cell phone tellin meh to com to dis bangin house paty."
Source: Pages 61, 85, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: commonly used expression to mean, "I'm upset/annoyed!"
Source: Page 19, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: used where a Standard English speaker would use a phrase indicating "conditions I encountered upon my arrival."
Example: "Guess what I met at Kentucky? Chicken finish!"
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Definition: pronunciation for "make/making."
Example: "Wha mek you don't stop lie?" = "Why don't you stop lying?" (used the way a Statesider would use, "Oh, cut it out!"
Source: Page 85, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: Haste makes waste.
Source: Ronnie Lockhart, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: pronunciation of "remember" ("Yoh memba she man, right?")
Source: Page 85, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: literally "my son," used like "dude" or "oh, man!" might be used in the States, but does not refer exclusively to males or children. A ubiquitous interjection.
Examples: "I late mehson" = "I’'m late," "Mehson?" = "Tell me about it/no kidding!"
Source: Page 85, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: "my."
Source: Page 86, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: (MEHlay) - gossip, scandal, crazy situation.
Example: "Gyul, you ain hear the melee that happen to me yesterday!"
Source: Page 85, Say it in Crucian!
Example: "Anti man does pung de most mellee'!"
Source: Eboni, on Facebook, 2006.

Definition: "being nosy. "Ay deh mahn, u too metteh meh son."
Source: Mercedes, on Facebook, 2006.

Definition: "mine" (possessive).
Example: "Wi yo mean tiz mine-own?"
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Definition: used when a Standard English speaker would use "mine."
Examples: "Da cyar ova deh gon be mines." "Da one de is mines."
Source: Page 86, Say it in Crucian!
Added to by: Natalie, 2009.

Definition: slang for "fine," first rate."
Example: "We all know u from the VI wen u gah look mint just to go the road...lol!"
Source: Caprice, on Facebook, 2009.

Definition: (MOCKoh JOOMbee), a popular Carnival figure, a masked, costumed person on stilts who scares away evil spirits.
Source: Page 86, Say it in Crucian!
Definition: "A male stilt masquerader traditionally dressed in female attire. From Fula (Sudanese), 'Moco' = a medicine man....One of the most celebrated moko jumbees was "Magnus" (John Magnus Farrell) of St. Croix, who first appeared in 1929."
Source: Pages 81-82, What a Pistarkle!

Definition: proverb, to mean every person knows who to mess with and who to leave alone.
Source: Page 59, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: (rhymes with "about"), pronunciation for "mouth."
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Definition: idiomatic expression to mean someone who never stops talking/whose mouth never gets a rest. Can also suggest that the person uses foul language (not appropriate for church on Sunday).
Suggested by: a caller to the Roger W. Morgan radio show, 11/25/08. Added to by Shawna, 2008.

Definition: often used when Standard English would call for "many."
Example: "How much papah dem dis English class require?"
Source: Page 86, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: pronunciation for "mother" ("Weh yoh muddah deh?" = "Where's your mother?")
Source: Page 86, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: "motherland," usually refers to Africa.
Source: Page 86, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: if you work this out phonetically, it is literally "mother's cunt," obviously an extremely rude, crass term, and it is often used exactly that way, the way Statesiders might use "motherfucker." If you use it, be sure you pronounce it correctly, (muddah-SKUNT), which like "rass" and "strupid" softens the effect slightly ("Geh yo muddaskunt!").
See also: "skunt"
Source: Page 86, Say it in Crucian!
Example: "u kno u is a true virgin islander cause When you vex, u does chuuups and cut eye. as well as When you cussin' somebody you tell dem bout dey MUDDASCUNT!!!"
Source: Chardonnay, on Facebook, 2009.
Example: "scattah yo' modah skunt."
Source: Julie, on Facebook, 2006.
Example: "Sereas i ting deez modaskunts fuckin retadded."
Source: Anetra, on Facebook, 2007.

Definition: a difficult situation ("Afta she fadda had die, it was like murderation cuz she was so hurt, ya check?")
Source: Page 86, Say it in Crucian!

Definition: "must be/must have been" ("You mussee crazy!", "We end up leaving musi 7 o’clock in deh mahning.")
Alternative spellings: musi
Source: Page 86, Say it in Crucian!

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