Meaning
A hard, crunchy baked coconut biscuit — flour, grated coconut, sugar, and spice baked into a dense, tooth-testing treat that keeps for a long time. An old-time bakery and shop favourite, its name jokingly nods to how hard you must chew it, like feed for a donkey.
Examples
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Buy some jackass corn from di bakery.
Buy some coconut biscuits from the bakery.
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Jackass corn hard but sweet.
Jackass corn is hard but sweet.
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Dip di jackass corn inna yuh tea.
Dip the coconut biscuit in your tea.
Origin
A humorous name (as with 'Bustamante backbone') for a very hard baked coconut biscuit. See [[busta]], [[grater-cake]].
How it’s used
A hard baked coconut biscuit; name jokes about its hardness. See [[busta]], [[toto]].