argie: to argue
The Bahamas has slang, like any other country. Most of the material presented here comes from an excellent book, More Talkin' Bahamian, by Patricia Glinton-Meicholas, Guanima Press 1995. If you have another term you can add to this list, please email me.
back-back: to go in reverse in a car
big-eyed: greedy
biggety: anything bold, brassy, and boastful
big up: Pregnant
boom-boom: rear end, or ass
boonggy: rear end or ass; considered a national word
bound: constipated
bright: light complexion
bubby: breasts
buck up: to crash, as in car
calm head: smooth hair in a female
camolly: lump, or bruise
conch: large mollusk; considered to be an aphrodesiac; national food
conchy joe: watch out for Joe! An ethnic term referring to those of caucasian inclination (in other words, white)
confuddle up: to get confused
corporation: in some cases, a pot-belly
cowboy: to take an abbreviated bath, without getting in the bath.
cuckoo soup: soup into which certain bodily fluids are placed to "tame a man", especially one who is trying to win the heart of that man; said to have magical powers in winning the man in marriage
crabbie: vagina
cut hip: to give a beating
dead: used as an adjective to intenisfy anything ("dead" ugly)
doggie: penis
duff: boiled, fruit-filled dough; a national desert, much loved,with a rum flavored sauce
fast: describes someone who steals, or cannot mind their own business
general: form of address from man to man
gin up: to screw up, mismanage
gussy-mae: fat Bahamian girls, with large "bubbies" and "boonggy"
high: bad smell
hurt: to put a hex on
jack: friend
jam up: to crowd
jook: to stab
jumbey: spirit
leg short: arrived too late
long out: to pout
low fence: someone that is easy to take advantage of
muggage up: to beat up
outside: away from the marriage, as in outside children
picky head: short, thin hair pucketery: in a jam, or quandary
purge: to vent rage
quarm: to walk in an affected way
shuttail: without pants
sip sip: gossip
skylark: good natured horseplay
show sef: show off
spilligate: to go out on the town
spirit agree: to get along well with someone
stiff-toe gang; rigor mortis, or to die
sweetheart: affair
tarpree: low class, gullible; like "low fence"
terreckly: soon, from 'directly'
tote news: to gossip