mampy

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole mampy.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmæmˌpi/
Hyphenation: mam‧py

Adjective

mampy (not comparable)

(Caribbean, Jamaica) grossly overweight; heavyset

References

^ Eric Partridge (2005) “mampy”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1261.

Anagrams

Pammy

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

mampi, mampie

Etymology

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmamˌpɪ/
Hyphenation: mam‧pi

Adjective

mampy

big, fat, huge, obese
Synonyms: swarthy, wagga-wagga

Mampy gyal a di lick now.
Big women are the craze now.
- 2015, Oxy Moron, “Whaa gwaan Obaama?”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎^[1]:
  “Di crab peeple dem wheh dem neva waa yuh fi si, dem come bak wid di crab dem wid dem big mampy claw. […] ”
  The crab vendors, who they didn't want you to see, came back with those crabs with the huge claw. […]

Noun

mampy (plural mampy dem, quantified mampy)

BBW; an obese woman
Mawga gyal cyaan satisfy me. A one real mampy mi waan.
A skinny girl can't satisfy me. I need a Big Woman.
- 2014, Joan Williams, Shawn Grant, Original Dancehall Dictionary: Learning to speak like a Jamaican (in English), →ISBN:
  “MAMPY: An extremely obese woman. Sexist Dancehall has not coined a special word for fat men so we still call them big belly man and believe it or not, they are in demand. […] ”

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