Meaning
The set day (often Friday or Saturday) when the town or district market comes fully alive — higglers set out their produce, country buses roll in loaded with goods, and people come to buy the week's ground provisions, fruit, fish, and wares. A busy hub of trade and social life, market day is a fixture of the Jamaican week.
Examples
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Saturday a market day, di town pack.
Saturday is market day; the town is packed.
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She go a market pon market day fi sell har yam.
She goes to market on market day to sell her yams.
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Buy di provision cheap pon market day.
Buy the provisions cheap on market day.
Origin
From 'market' + 'day'; the weekly market trading day. See [[higgler]], [[country-bus]].
How it’s used
The weekly market trading day; hub of country trade. See [[higgler]], [[country-bus]], [[higglering]].