Meaning
Ground provisions — the starchy root and tuber staples grown in the ground that form the backbone of the Jamaican plate: yam, dasheen (coco), sweet potato, cassava, and the like, along with green banana and breadfruit counted alongside them. Boiled together as 'food', they fill and sustain and are the cheapest, most dependable belly-full.
Examples
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Buy some grung provision at di market — yam an coco.
Buy some ground provisions at the market — yam and dasheen.
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Boil up di grung provision fi go wid di fish.
Boil the ground provisions to go with the fish.
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Grung provision fill yuh belly cheap.
Ground provisions fill your belly cheaply.
Origin
From [[grung]] (ground) + 'provision'; the collective name for root/tuber staples grown in the earth. See [[grung]], [[yam]].
How it’s used
Starchy root staples — yam, dasheen, sweet potato, cassava (with green banana/breadfruit). Boiled as 'food'. See [[yam]], [[green-banana]].