Words from Colón
Colón speaks differently and knows it. The city on the Panamanian Caribbean, the port and the Free Zone put Spanish in contact with Antillean English, and out of that came words the capital half-understands or does not understand at all. These are the ones the corpus records as Colón’s, with a definition, a register and an example of use.
12 entries in this list
afroantillano
A descendant of the English- and French-speaking Caribbean laborers (mostly from Barbados, Jamaica, Martinique and Guadeloupe) brought in to build the…
arroz con coco
Rice cooked in coconut milk, a staple of Panama's Caribbean coast and of Bocas del Toro.
bumear
To hit someone or give them a beating.
diablo rojo
The traditional Panama City bus: retired American school buses hand-painted with elaborate murals, lights and powerful sound systems.
fufú
Bad energy, witchcraft, a hex.
gial
Girl, young woman.
guari-guari
An English-based creole spoken by the Afro-Antillean community of Bocas del Toro and parts of Colón.
jonicake
A dense round bread from Afro-Antillean cooking, baked or fried, eaten with coffee or alongside stew.
plantintá
A sweet baked turnover filled with red colored sweet plantain, typical of Afro-Antillean baking in Colón and Bocas del Toro.
rondón
A coconut-milk stew of fish or meat with root vegetables and plantain, cooked until everything falls apart.
sao
Pig's feet cured in lime with onion, cucumber and hot pepper, served cold.
zonian
A U.S.