If I remember correctly, I learned in the documentary "Bigger Than Africa" from a Trinidadian professor that it comes from the African word "limin" which has similar meaning
she actually came back in 1988,when she performed with run d mc at a concert at our national stadium, after the show my friends met her at the hotel where she was staying,it was very late but she wanted cigarettes real bad,story short they got it for her she said keep the change which was sizeable they had a really good time hanging out with her, that's no act she really is a cool chick. ,my friends met her at the hotel where she was staying
Comes from Lime Street, in Liverpool, UK - where sailors used to hangout between trips, chillin and spending the time and cash on ‘colourful ‘ pursuits before heading out for the seas again. In fact, Liverpool sailors weee called Limies/Lymies - a term later used for anyone who likes to hangout. Much history of slavery and trading with Liverpool docks can be seen in black history museum in Liverpool dockyards - an interesting day out but emotionally impactful 🤷🏽♀️🙏🏽
To the Queen We Trinie don't talk like how U broke it down U sound more like a Jamaican lol but I still luv Yah happy U visit my Country Trinie and enjoy yr stay 😚
Queen Latifah should know her facts before she goes on national television and spread propaganda. Thank you. liming Verb 1. Present participle of lime. 2. (Trinidadian, Caribbean, slang) hanging around, usually in a public place with friends, enjoying the scene. "No Liming or Loitering - No Shouting or Loud Noise" (written on a sign in Port of Spain shopping mall). Origin 1) The word is associated with sitting under a lime tree, or having nothing more demanding to do than squeezing limes. It is also thought to originate from "limey", a slang term meaning a British serviceman during World War II (noted for hanging around bars and drinking). 2) During long voyages at sea, sailors would suffer from a disease known as Scurvy which was caused from a lack of Vitamin C. British soldiers would counteract this by taking limes on board and sucking them periodically. For this, they came to be known as "limeys". During WW2 when many limeys were stationed in Trinidad and Tobago, they would seek amusement from the local prostitutes (Green-Corner, Port-of-Spain was famous for this and there is more than one calypso sung about it e.g. Jean and Dinah - Sparrow). The locals would see the limeys hanging out and say that they were "liming", hence, liming became a verb which means to hang out (source: English teacher in Hillview College, Trinidad-and Tobago early 90's).
0:14 "where you back up ya waist, back up ya waist, back, back" 😂😂😂 love how she looked back at it !!👏💖
I am from Trinidad and Tobago and i not back up is woke up yuh wast. Is like work but is part of our dialect
@@dasaniquamina-nurse9414 is the two ah dem dawg, 😂😂😂 BACK IT UP! WOK IT UP! GYAL BACK IT UP!
@@Reversisms yea same difference xD
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She's telling the truth Trinidad and Tobago is the party place winning and grinding
Ofc I love my country 🇹🇹
Whine yuh bottom gyal
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The ol.
ll. TheyThey are plop
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Leh we go bussa lime na!?🍻🍺🎱
I love my culture 🇹🇹
Me too. Just found out I’m 20%Trini
🙏🏽Trinidad♀️Tobago.❤️🇹🇹🇨🇦❤️
I am proud to be Trinidadian 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹 correction we have the biggest carnival in the world
Me too. I am a half trini but the best part of me is
Tbh im a Trini and didn't know where the term "Liming" originated i just went with the flow lol sure other trinis can relate 😂🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
Somebody probably make up that story to give she for the kicks of it. It sounds like a good reason for the word. Hey, why not?😂
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If I remember correctly, I learned in the documentary "Bigger Than Africa" from a Trinidadian professor that it comes from the African word "limin" which has similar meaning
Yesssss come through Queen, we love yuh🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
I really like Queen Latifah. She has evolved and is just fantastic.
I just love Queen Latifah and she bigs up TnT.
HAHAHAHA I LOVE HOW SHE SAYS LIMEING :)
Im so happy to be Trinidadian🇹🇹🇹🇹
Right 🇹🇹❤️🇹🇹
makes me so proud i actually saw her at 1 of our beaches 🇹🇹
Ok🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
Big up Trinidad ...ahhaaaa
Queeeennnn! Love her. She is always nice.
American getting into Caribbean culture..liming means to hang out..
Unusual slang word..
@@yir9383 I guess if you haven’t heard of the slang before it may sound weird lol
Tell them!
@@yir9383 unusual to YOU lol
i didnt know she came to trinidad before lol thats nice, its good she had an amazing experience with us
she actually came back in 1988,when she performed with run d mc at a concert at our national stadium, after the show my friends met her at the hotel where she was staying,it was very late but she wanted cigarettes real bad,story short they got it for her she said keep the change which was sizeable they had a really good time hanging out with her, that's no act she really is a cool chick.
,my friends met her at the hotel where she was staying
Big up queen we love you 😘 all the way from Trindad & Tobago!
Come Nah why I now seeing this. I getting chills. I love this woman 🤣🤣😘. Come back Trini. We ah d best. If ya wah know how to party come through
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Big up TnT
Queen Latifah is sooooo true Trinidad and tobago is amazing I loooooooovvvvvveeeeee trinidad 😀😀😀💟💙💙💙💚💚💚💛💛💛💛💜💜💜💓💓💓💕💕💟💟💞💞💞💞💝💝💝💝💗💖💖💖
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Comes from Lime Street, in Liverpool, UK - where sailors used to hangout between trips, chillin and spending the time and cash on ‘colourful ‘ pursuits before heading out for the seas again. In fact, Liverpool sailors weee called Limies/Lymies - a term later used for anyone who likes to hangout. Much history of slavery and trading with Liverpool docks can be seen in black history museum in Liverpool dockyards - an interesting day out but emotionally impactful 🤷🏽♀️🙏🏽
i love this video and she talking like a real trini
Just come back and lime with us queenee
I'm from Trinidad🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤
Me too
Best place to be!
In the house 🇹🇹🇨🇦❤️
Big up Queen Latifah 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
I didnt even really know the history behind the word liming just grew up hearing it and accepted it.
Yes that is how it came about.
T&T is where i am from.I am so happy u visit our beautiful island.
I like how she talks about Trinidad and Tobago she did enjoy herself holla
something about The QUEEN and TNT go together like Pastel and Sorrel: Roti and red solo. Rum and punch-a-cremer...Go QUEEN. You know we love ya...
Yes my home place🇹🇹
Chilled with her in Mt Irvine. Very Ghetto hardcore. Cool chick.
That was a good impression
Thanks Am from from tobago it really nice
I from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 👌 that is in the Caribbean
Nice...... Trini for life....we love to lime and have a good time.
So many good things people have to say about our country too bad its being run to the ground
Facts
I love my country but unfortunately you are right. Trinidad is a beautiful place but the people are destroying its reputation.
Yes u right. Govern by a bunch of illiterate
And I bet u don't live in tt,,,
Omggg❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 🇹🇹 i love my culture
I like how she tries to use our accent
Trini culture to dih world🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
To the Queen We Trinie don't talk like how U broke it down U sound more like a Jamaican lol but I still luv Yah happy U visit my Country Trinie and enjoy yr stay 😚
She got the tourist experience. Trinidad mainland is not all city. Tons of countryside. Tobago is definitely is full of tourists.
She is so cute!
I always loved Latiffa, she's a cool chick, and she big up the Islands good girl
She loves us 😆😆love her for that
Girl show the boy what you learned in tnt about back up ya waist
😙😙😙😚 come back and lime with me in Trinidad
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i did not know that she knew about TRINIDAD and tobago
i didnt know she noticed us
have tuh love we trini inno orhor 🇹🇹❤️💪🏾😂
The name of my country is trinidad and tobago 🇹🇹🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Lol dah tour guide thief ur head wid how limin come about
I like her😘
#🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹 4lifeeeee
trinidad🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
Yes correct 🇹🇹
Trini we big
I'm from Trinidad and Tobago
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Oh shit. I disnt know that was d origins of limin and I've lived t&t my entire life.
She stayed at stone haven
Papalapss wiii wet den!
We from in Trinidad and limeing
Jesus!!! It took me about 5 tries before I got my tongue wrap around your name😁 that's a real mouthful😘
@@jameelkhan707 ngl her name is kinda funny no offence to her though
U know🇹🇹🇹🇹🤣🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇨🇦❤️
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Trnindad🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
It means to hang out from place to place or stroll from place to place.
Ayyy dats waz up she come to my country baiii
She kind of got it right Trinidad and Tobago are two sister island’s
Hahaha...
They're learning our language!
Me explaining to my Canadian friend what liming means... using the Queen
Yeessss 🙋
Wait for real?? In Grenada we use the term liming too. Is that really where it came from. Can anybody do the fact check?
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We got beautiful beaches in trinidad too
lime 😭😭
💛💛💛🌻🌻🌻☀☀☀
Trini gang wya?
Represting my contry
Thumbs up if ur a Trinidadian
Christian with a Muslim name. They like our names.
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You going back for shore
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USA virgin islañd miss avon
Brain in the street
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Limes were used by these people to controll Scurvy.
Lol yeah we like to lime...
she's from Trinidadian? thought she was African American
yeah i'm African trinidadian
no shes not shes american not trinidadian
aurora, you are wrong she is African american
she was born in new jersey, blacksultan. however, at the end of the day, we were all born on this tiny planet called earth
dale stuart that makes her American still like she stated
All the trinidans at 👉👉👉✌👉👉
Englishman she knows she was thinking white men. Pc culture.
Ik i am
Queen Latifah should know her facts before she goes on national television and spread propaganda. Thank you.
liming
Verb
1. Present participle of lime.
2. (Trinidadian, Caribbean, slang) hanging around, usually in a public place with friends, enjoying the scene.
"No Liming or Loitering - No Shouting or Loud Noise" (written on a sign in Port of Spain shopping mall).
Origin
1) The word is associated with sitting under a lime tree, or having nothing more demanding to do than squeezing limes. It is also thought to originate from "limey", a slang term meaning a British serviceman during World War II (noted for hanging around bars and drinking).
2) During long voyages at sea, sailors would suffer from a disease known as Scurvy which was caused from a lack of Vitamin C. British soldiers would counteract this by taking limes on board and sucking them periodically. For this, they came to be known as "limeys". During WW2 when many limeys were stationed in Trinidad and Tobago, they would seek amusement from the local prostitutes (Green-Corner, Port-of-Spain was famous for this and there is more than one calypso sung about it e.g. Jean and Dinah - Sparrow). The locals would see the limeys hanging out and say that they were "liming", hence, liming became a verb which means to hang out (source: English teacher in Hillview College, Trinidad-and Tobago early 90's).
@@Reversisms learn to spell...
AvidiaNirvana learn to mind yuh fuckface beezwax
@@Reversisms still needs a little work, do you not have auto correct enabled? Or do you go out of your way to type like that? Lol
@@AvidiaNirvana 👏👏👏
@@AvidiaNirvana Ease them up nah xD
Lmao, they tie up she head
USA virgin islañd
Hey
Lol
We say the same thing in Guyana........limimng it sound real but who knows,,,,,
If ykyk
😂😂😂
Limmen lol bacahanal
Did she not get mugged in tobago?
Trini very beautiful yes not mugged but her hotel room was robbed she wasn't there in the room at the time tho
Trini very beautiful a hotel worker stole their valuables
Fsm
Not true
😂🤣🇨🇦🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹❤️ Facts♀️
no body not coming back to t & t too much crime and killing my sweet t and t gone through