Meaning
A tall, very spiny Jamaican palm and its clustered fruit — a hard round nut with a thin layer of oily, fibrous flesh that is chewed and sucked, and a stone inside that is cracked for a small edible kernel. 'Macca' is the Patois word for thorn or prickle, and the macca-fat palm is armed with fierce black spines, so gathering the fruit is a prickly business. It is an old wild-food treat of the bush.
Examples
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Mind di macca pon di macca-fat tree.
Mind the thorns on the macca-fat tree.
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Wi suck di macca-fat an crack di seed.
We suck the macca-fat and crack the seed.
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Macca-fat palm full a prickle.
The macca-fat palm is full of thorns.
Origin
From 'macca' (thorn/prickle) + 'fat' (its oily flesh); a spiny palm and its fruit. See [[macca]], [[coco-macca]].
How it’s used
A very spiny palm and its oily wild fruit ('macca' = thorn). See [[macca]], [[bush]].