Ketchy Shuby is a cricket game we played as kids where there is one batsman one bowler and every fielder plays to get the ball with a chance of bowling, with the intention of bowling out the batsman and getting a chance to bat. It was a popular game at recess for us in primary school where there is one bat, one ball and as many kids playing together. We played this well before Peter Tosh's song was released. Your friends as boys could call you to say, "we going to the ball grung to go play some Ketchy Shuby." This was Westmoreland, mid sixties to early seventies for me. Remember Peter Tosh was from Westmoreland, so he would be familiar with the term from there. I can understand some people not familiar with the term from way back then may consider it to have a sexual connotation. Ketchy Shuby was released in 1976 on Tosh's Legalize It album, so it came popularized into the vernacular nationally then. But before that, I knew the term from our boyhood cricket game which allowed as many players to participate at one time.
This is so interesting.. this is only my observation that the two pictures used to illustrate the teggereg are vastly different- the second black and white picture with the female screaming her jugulars while the other color picture illustrates 3 people having a casual conversation. Thank you for this channel. My daughter who is born in the US is absolutely fascinated with the language - I enjoy watching you
‘Sugar’ - diabetes: simple medical origin of the term: uncontrolled blood sugar levels, often (not always) from overconsumption of carbohydrates; broken down as glucose/ sugar in the body via digestion.
Hooligan and helter-skelter were originally British, I believe, but are now used elsewhere. It appears that some of these expressions are regional The older Jamaicans from Kingston use to say "blouse and skirt!" indicating surprise or shock at something, usually good. "Back-a-wall woman" is an argumentative woman who curses, drinks and will fight in the streets (maybe from the word Bacchanal. You would shrug your shoulder and say "Cho!!" meaning get off me, or to express impatience ( 😄my mum's favorite).
Whew ! An aficionado of languages, especially our always evolving 🇯🇲’can patois, ;and all things 🇯🇲’can) I’m really loving this channel👌🏾👍🏾 Permit me to comment again on ‘Gumption’. This too is an English word, though used informally. Meaning: shrewd; spirited initiative/ resourcefulness.
Kakka faat is a kind of metaphor/ onomatopoeia. In the Jamaican lingo context, it is describing the sound of the sudden(uncontrolled) emission of wind through the ‘back exit of the body’ - aka kakka).The term alludes to both the sound and suddenness/ spontaneity of the action.
‘Trenton’, Jamaican pseudonym for pig originated from the ; (now rarely used) English word ‘trencherman’ meaning pig- hog. Also used to describe an over eater / glutton.
Ketchy shuppy was the informal cricket game with one batsman and any one who got the ball, bowls. Who catches the ball or bowls the batsman takes the bat.
Catch it bowl it meaning its not an organised game of cricket once you have the ball you bowl to get the single batsman out to replace him at the batting crease... Downside of it older boys would pressure a younger boy if he got the ball but would not share the bat... Positive it developed great bowlers especially pacemen as you had to earn your place at the batting crease..
Gelding is a male horse that's been castrated usually to keep him from focusing on the female and just on racing, a castrated bull is a steer, reared for meat. I've heard a ram refered to a whether
Pyah-Pyah refers to much more that "class or status" It refers to a person or object of high quality or pedigree For example, someones clothes or dress can be said to be made from "no pyah-pyah" material.
Teggreg. I saw video of a little girl no more than 7 or 8 years old with her hands akimbo cursing an adult telling the person to come and hit her you can tell right away the environment she is from.
Helter Skelter is an authentic English term; not uniquely Jamaican. It means disorder or disorderly haste but has more to do with state of mind or behaviour- in a word, confusion- doing things in a disorderly/ confused way or in a confused state of mind.
That's what I was going to say. How I understand it, it's like running around like a chicken without a head. There is a song by the Mighty Sparrow, who is from Trinidad, a line that says, people running Helter skelter, looking for place to shelter....
Funny, kitchen subie was always use in a disorganized cricket game. If get the ball you bowl. If you get the batter out you bat, if the batter hit the ball and you catch it, he is out, you get to bat.we sometimes work in pairs so my partner can bat. If the bowler is good we would switch to the partner who is the better batter. Don't ask me how all of that becomes kitchen shubie
Helter skelter means scattered, crazy. Incidentally, it was the title of the most famous book about the murderous Manson family. It is not unique to Jamaica.
Ketchy shuby refers to a fun game of cricket where each individual is on his own during the course of the game. It is not a team game, as each individual represents himself. One person is batting and another person bowls "(shub = shove =toss =fling)" the ball to him. He hits the ball and I catch "(ketch)" the ball. Now I have possession of the ball and I will now "shub" the ball to the batsman to get him out, so that I can get my chance to bat. So the irony of the whole thing is to ketch the ball and shub it to get out the batsman. (Ketchy = catch it and shuby=shove it = bowl it)
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I am 4° jamaican decendant costa rican, and am proud to say that most of those coloquial terms are use frequently in the province
of Limón.
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Ketchy Shuby is a cricket game we played as kids where there is one batsman one bowler and every fielder plays to get the ball with a chance of bowling, with the intention of bowling out the batsman and getting a chance to bat. It was a popular game at recess for us in primary school where there is one bat, one ball and as many kids playing together. We played this well before Peter Tosh's song was released. Your friends as boys could call you to say, "we going to the ball grung to go play some Ketchy Shuby." This was Westmoreland, mid sixties to early seventies for me. Remember Peter Tosh was from Westmoreland, so he would be familiar with the term from there.
I can understand some people not familiar with the term from way back then may consider it to have a sexual connotation. Ketchy Shuby was released in 1976 on Tosh's Legalize It album, so it came popularized into the vernacular nationally then. But before that, I knew the term from our boyhood cricket game which allowed as many players to participate at one time.
Bowl fi bat also,whoever in the field ketch the ball shoob it..
100% accurate 😊
You know di ting. Came here to say it in case no one else did. Exactly that. Used to play it myself as a child in St. Mary.
This is so interesting.. this is only my observation that the two pictures used to illustrate the teggereg are vastly different- the second black and white picture with the female screaming her jugulars while the other color picture illustrates 3 people having a casual conversation. Thank you for this channel. My daughter who is born in the US is absolutely fascinated with the language - I enjoy watching you
Love my Patois talking!! Bless you!!
Sketchy shuby is a cricket game if you have the ball you bowl to the batter
‘Sugar’ - diabetes: simple medical origin of the term: uncontrolled blood sugar levels, often (not always) from overconsumption of carbohydrates; broken down as glucose/ sugar in the body via digestion.
Ketchy shuby is the same game we call bold fi bat.
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Hooligan and helter-skelter were originally British, I believe, but are now used elsewhere.
It appears that some of these expressions are regional
The older Jamaicans from Kingston use to say "blouse and skirt!" indicating surprise or shock at something, usually good.
"Back-a-wall woman" is an argumentative woman who curses, drinks and will fight in the streets (maybe from the word Bacchanal.
You would shrug your shoulder and say "Cho!!" meaning get off me, or to express impatience ( 😄my mum's favorite).
Whew ! An aficionado of languages, especially our always evolving 🇯🇲’can patois, ;and all things 🇯🇲’can) I’m really loving this channel👌🏾👍🏾
Permit me to comment again on ‘Gumption’. This too is an English word, though used informally. Meaning: shrewd; spirited initiative/ resourcefulness.
We didn have Jim crow laws only in America
Gumption brave strong spirited
The good ole Trenton pot roast nice bad 😂
The newest one is "such man"
Kakka faat is a kind of metaphor/ onomatopoeia. In the Jamaican lingo context, it is describing the sound of the sudden(uncontrolled) emission of wind through the ‘back exit of the body’ - aka kakka).The term alludes to both the sound and suddenness/ spontaneity of the action.
‘Trenton’, Jamaican pseudonym for pig originated from the ; (now rarely used) English word ‘trencherman’ meaning pig- hog. Also used to describe an over eater / glutton.
Makes sense, since Trenton sounds very British.
Ketchy shuppy was the informal cricket game with one batsman and any one who got the ball, bowls. Who catches the ball or bowls the batsman takes the bat.
100% accurate 😊
I always say kakafaat or kakaclaat😂😂😂
KETCHYSHUBBY, IS AFORM OF CRICKET GAME
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I guess.it depends on were in Jamaica u r from
First am hearing about ketchy shubby
I never hear that one yet bu so.e words were left over from Spanish in we became British in 16 55
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Catch it bowl it meaning its not an organised game of cricket once you have the ball you bowl to get the single batsman out to replace him at the batting crease...
Downside of it older boys would pressure a younger boy if he got the ball but would not share the bat...
Positive it developed great bowlers especially pacemen as you had to earn your place at the batting crease..
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Gelding is a male horse that's been castrated usually to keep him from focusing on the female and just on racing, a castrated bull is a steer, reared for meat. I've heard a ram refered to a whether
That's it. Thank you.
Kakafaart Spanish form CUBA
No, that's jamaican. As a spanish speaker, it is not. If it's in Cuba, it was adopted from Jamaican culture.
Pyah-Pyah refers to much more that "class or status"
It refers to a person or object of high quality or pedigree
For example, someones clothes or dress can be said to be made from "no pyah-pyah" material.
Teggreg. I saw video of a little girl no more than 7 or 8 years old with her hands akimbo cursing an adult telling the person to come and hit her you can tell right away the environment she is from.
I fin.
Sny jamaicans dont knowqe w e were spanish before then the british took us over
Helter Skelter is an authentic English term; not uniquely Jamaican. It means disorder or disorderly haste but has more to do with state of mind or behaviour- in a word, confusion- doing things in a disorderly/ confused way or in a confused state of mind.
That's what I was going to say.
How I understand it, it's like running around like a chicken without a head.
There is a song by the Mighty Sparrow, who is from Trinidad, a line that says, people running Helter skelter, looking for place to shelter....
Could it be that teggereg originated from tigress/ tigerish/tigerous , the English words used to describe a fierce, passionate, strong…. woman?
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Funny, kitchen subie was always use in a disorganized cricket game. If get the ball you bowl. If you get the batter out you bat, if the batter hit the ball and you catch it, he is out, you get to bat.we sometimes work in pairs so my partner can bat. If the bowler is good we would switch to the partner who is the better batter. Don't ask me how all of that becomes kitchen shubie
If you think yu bad, just seh feh.
Oonu kno bout " ootiah", "owl ootiah!"?
A small wild animal which was hunted by Tainos.
Ole utia is an obnoxious person, cannot be trained or disciplined.
Untidy
I AM HEARING SQUBY SQUABY FOR THE FIRST TIME WHAT I HEAR IS DIBNY DIBNY SQUAAB SQUAAB, THAT IS FROM TIGER.
That's what Tiger said, squaab squaab, not squby squby.
But the other word is Dibby Dibby, maybe a Google spell check I guess?
Low birth rate is good? How will we maintain a demography for progress?
My Father dont eat pork and he always call it Trenton so i guess a who dont eat it call it so
HATACLAPS IS LIKE THINGS GOING FOR SOMETIME AND THING'S CULMINATING .
I think that word is somewhere in revelation, has to do with "End of days" scenario.
When this ya hotaclaps bust it nah go pretty
TEGEREG CAN BEE A MAN OR WOMAN JUST LIKE A VIRAGO.
Weh yuh come from? Never heard a man referred to as a tegereg. Tegereg = aggressive/ boisterous female.
Volgar teg areg hooligan
Holgan teg a reg
Caac dodo spanish cac
Caca is do do in spanish use it
F[rce ripe too rude
Some words ate spanish
In Germany Kaka mean feces ( shyt) we are not originated from Africa, Peace
Or such person or such woman
Mix up
Backing music ruin the video it’s not needed but great video
Couldn't they use a better photograph?
Gelding is when they geld a horse so they can't impregnate so man yuh a gelding
Atta xlzpse big fight and arguement fight
Helter skelter means scattered, crazy. Incidentally, it was the title of the most famous book about the murderous Manson family. It is not unique to Jamaica.
Caca dodo spanish word
The lady is not quite accurate when the meaning of some of the terms/phrases.
Helter Skelter isn't a authentic Jamaican term. Charles Manson
Hitchup dress not made or fit properly uneven hang pon nail
Hitians also use the same word kaka this word refer to shit
Ketchy shuby refers to a fun game of cricket where each individual is on his own during the course of the game. It is not a team game, as each individual represents himself.
One person is batting and another person bowls "(shub = shove =toss =fling)" the ball to him. He hits the ball and I catch "(ketch)" the ball. Now I have possession of the ball and I will now "shub" the ball to the batsman to get him out, so that I can get my chance to bat.
So the irony of the whole thing is to ketch the ball and shub it to get out the batsman. (Ketchy = catch it and shuby=shove it = bowl it)
So.e Hatian speR spanish well too DR is their neighbour
Gelding is a castrated horse.
KETCHYSHUBBY, IS AFORM OF CRICKET GAME
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