Patois Crossword

Mini · Easy · No. 230:00

Patois Crossword: Mini · Easy · No. 23

An easy mini Patois crossword with 8 clues. Every answer is a real Jamaican Patois word from the dictionary, and each links to its entry when you finish. Easy: The most familiar words. Meanings come with a category, every word starts with its first letter filled in, and you can check and reveal.

Across

  1. 2 Dance, Party & Celebration: A classic dancehall dance move of the early 1990s (5)
  2. 4 Food & Drink: A round, dense, flat cake sweetened with molasses or dark brown sugar and spiced with ginger… (5)
  3. 5 Body, Health & Appearance: The stomach or abdomen — but in Jamaican it also commonly means a pregnancy (5)
  4. 6 Actions & Verbs: To stand — but far more often to stay, remain, or wait, and to describe how something is or looks (3)
  5. 7 Grammar & Function Words: Marks location and existence — roughly 'there', 'is at', or 'to be somewhere' (3)

Down

  1. 1 Places & Directions: The porch or covered gallery running along the front or side of a Jamaican house — the shady, open-air spot (8)
  2. 2 Rastafari & Iyaric: The oppressive establishment (7)
  3. 3 Places & Directions: A drainage ____ or ditch — and, by extension, the poor inner-city neighbourhoods (5)

Where the words come from

Every answer is an entry in the Patois dictionary. This puzzle draws on: Actions & Verbs, Body, Health & Appearance, Dance, Party & Celebration, Food & Drink, Grammar & Function Words, Places & Directions, Rastafari & Iyaric. When you finish, each answer shows its meaning, its pronunciation and an example sentence.

The number in brackets after a clue is the length of the answer, and (3,5) means two words of three and five letters, typed with no space. Patois has no single spelling, so if you type another spelling the dictionary records, it counts.

More to play

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