Meaning
The ordinary seedling mango that grows wild and abundant all over Jamaica — small, stringy, and full of fibre, as against the choice grafted named varieties. The common mango is what fills the trees along every roadside and gully, free for the picking (or pelting) in season, sucked rather than sliced because of all the strings. Humble but plentiful, it feeds children, pigs, and everyone in the mango glut, and no one goes without in mango time.
Examples
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Common mango full a string but it sweet.
Common mangoes are full of fibre but they're sweet.
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Pelt some common mango outta di roadside tree.
Knock some common mangoes out of the roadside tree.
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Suck di common mango, nuh slice it.
Suck the common mango, don't slice it.
Origin
From 'common' (ordinary/wild) + 'mango'; the abundant fibrous seedling mango. See [[stringy-mango]], [[number-eleven-mango]].
How it’s used
The ordinary wild, fibrous seedling mango (vs. named varieties). See [[stringy-mango]], [[pelt]].