Meaning
Heavy, thick, lumpy, or crudely made — used of food that is stodgy and badly cooked, or of anything rough, clumsy, and unrefined. A 'dugu-dugu dumpling' is a heavy, badly-made dumpling, dense and doughy, and the word extends to any coarse, lumpish, poorly-finished thing. The doubling stresses the crude, lumpy quality, its very sound thick and clumsy, and it is a common, expressive put-down for the stodgy, the ill-made, and the graceless, whether a leaden dumpling or any rough and clumsy piece of work.
Examples
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Di dumpling come out dugu-dugu.
The dumplings came out heavy and lumpy.
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Mi nuh want no dugu-dugu food.
I don't want any stodgy, badly-made food.
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Him mek di ting dugu-dugu.
He made the thing crudely and clumsily.
Origin
A reduplicated word of African-derived sound-symbolism for heaviness/coarseness; the doubling intensifies the lumpy, crude quality.
How it’s used
Of stodgy food or crude, clumsy things. Compare 'chaka-chaka' (messy), 'saaka-saaka' (untidy).