Meaning
A swamp or wetland — low, waterlogged, muddy ground thick with reeds, mangroves, and bog, home to birds, crabs, fish, and crocodiles. Jamaica's great morasses, such as the Black River Lower Morass and the Negril Morass, are famous wetlands, and the word is a plain everyday term for any such boggy, watery expanse. To go 'inna di morass' is to enter this soft, treacherous, teeming country between land and water.
Examples
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Crocodile live inna di morass.
Crocodiles live in the swamp.
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Dem cut reed from di morass.
They cut reeds from the wetland.
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Di morass wet an full a bird.
The wetland is wet and full of birds.
Origin
From English 'morass' (a swamp); a wetland/swamp. See [[gully-bank]], [[crocodile]].
How it’s used
A swamp/wetland; Jamaica has famous named morasses. See [[gully-bank]], [[crocodile]].