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Meaning of "Jafaican" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD JAFAICAN

From Jamaican + fake.
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PRONUNCIATION OF JAFAICAN

Jafaican  [dʒəˈfeɪkən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JAFAICAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Jafaican is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES JAFAICAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Multicultural London English

Multicultural London English is a dialect of English that emerged in the late 20th century. It is spoken authentically by working-class, mainly young people in inner London, and some outer London areas such as Brent, Newham, Barking and Dagenham, Haringey, and Enfield. However, elements of the sociolect are widely imitated throughout southern England. According to research conducted at Lancaster University, Multicultural London English is gaining territory from Cockney. It is said to contain many elements from the languages of the Caribbean and South Asia, African American English, and remnants of traditional Cockney. Although the colloquial name "Jafaican" implies that it's pseudo-Jamaican, some researchers indicate that it isn't the language of white youth trying to imitate black, but rather that " more likely that young people have been growing up in London exposed to a mixture of second-language English and local London English and that this new variety has emerged from that mix. Some speakers of this language may also refer to it as "Junglish", implying it is a more rogue way of speaking English."...

Definition of Jafaican in the English dictionary

The definition of Jafaican in the dictionary is a dialect of English spoken in London, with marked Jamaican influences. Other definition of Jafaican is a white person who adopts this dialect.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH JAFAICAN


Aiken
ˈeɪkən
awaken
əˈweɪkən
bacon
ˈbeɪkən
betaken
bɪˈteɪkən
caretaken
ˈkɛəˌteɪkən
forsaken
fəˈseɪkən
godforsaken
ˈɡɒdfəˌseɪkən
Jafaikan
dʒəˈfeɪkən
Jamaican
dʒəˈmeɪkən
Macon
ˈmeɪkən
mistaken
mɪˈsteɪkən
overtaken
ˌəʊvəˈteɪkən
reawaken
ˌriːəˈweɪkən
rewaken
ˌriːˈweɪkən
shaken
ˈʃeɪkən
taken
ˈteɪkən
undertaken
ˌʌndəˈteɪkən
unshaken
ʌnˈʃeɪkən
untaken
ʌnˈteɪkən
waken
ˈweɪkən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE JAFAICAN

Jadotville
jaeger
Jael
jafa
Jafaikan
Jaffa
Jaffna
jag
jaga
Jagannath
Jagannatha
jager
jagg
Jagganath
jaggary
jagged
jaggedly
jaggedness
Jagger

WORDS THAT END LIKE JAFAICAN

African
African-American
all-American
American
Anglican
Costa Rican
Dominican
indican
Latin American
Mexican
Mozambican
Native American
North American
pelican
publican
Puerto Rican
republican
South African
South American
Vatican

Synonyms and antonyms of Jafaican in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Jafaican» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF JAFAICAN

Find out the translation of Jafaican to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Jafaican from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Jafaican» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Jafaican
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Jafaican
570 millions of speakers

English

Jafaican
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Jafaican
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Jafaican
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Jafaican
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Jafaican
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Jafaican
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Jafaican
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jafaican
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Jafaican
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Jafaican
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Jafaican
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jafaican
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Jafaican
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Jafaican
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Jafaican
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Jafaican
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Jafaican
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Jafaican
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Jafaican
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Jafaican
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Jafaican
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Jafaican
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Jafaican
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Jafaican
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Jafaican

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «JAFAICAN»

The term «Jafaican» is barely ever used and occupies the 201.875 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of Jafaican
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Jafaican».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Jafaican

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JAFAICAN»

Discover the use of Jafaican in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Jafaican and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Life in the United Kingdom: The Land and the People
I once attended school in Tanzania where there's no such thing as black English as there is in the United States and even in Britain where Jafaican is the equivalent of what many black Americans call Ebonics and of which Professor Geneva ...
David William, 2010
2
Uk Cities: A Look at Life and Major Cities in England, ...
District, Songea, and Dar es Salaam – where there's no such thing as black English as there is in the United States and even in Britain where Jafaican is the equivalent of what many black Americans call Ebonics and of which Professor ...
David William, 2010
3
The Many Faces of Sacha Baron Cohen: Politics, Parody, and ...
The popularity of rap music and TV shows — Ali G, in particular — has produced a cascade effect in recent years which lends credibility to this new speech pattern .31 Ali G's use of Jafaican is double-edged. He is both a medium and mirror of ...
Robert A. Saunders, 2009
4
Britain: Be Fluent in British Life and Culture
Such has been Jafaican's growth that today you'll find youngsters fromTower Hamlets to Torquay calling each other 'blud' and discussing whether those 'skets' is 'butters'. Daily Mail readers are no doubt aquiver. 49 1.3.2 Being British: I wish  ...
Andrew Whittaker, 2009
5
From International to Local English and Back Again
'Jafaican' Is Wiping out Inner-City English Accents, Daily Mail - April. <http://www. dailymail.co.uk/ news/ article-382734/Jafaican-wiping-inner-city-Englishaccents. html>. Clarke, John 1975. Style. In Hall, S. /Jefferson, T. (eds), Resistance ...
Roberta Facchinetti, David Crystal, Barbara Seidlhofer, 2010
6
New Suburban Stories
'Jafaican' is a term that appears in the discussion of youth language in multiethnic areas, clearly connoting similarities to Jamaican Patois and artificiality. Cheshire et al. remark that 'Jafaican' 'most likely 6 'Betongens barn har växt upp så ...
Martin Dines, Timotheus Vermeulen, 2013
7
Practical Phonetics and Phonology: A Resource Book for Students
This new variety is sometimes popularly termed 'Jafaican' by journalists, and by Londoners themselves, although linguists prefer to call it 'Multicultural London English' (abbreviated to MLE). The resulting English is like a cross between ...
Beverley S. Collins, Inger M. Mees, 2013
8
The Art of Being Middle Class
Mr Mount neglects to mention that this new accent, which he calls 'Jafaican', has also eaten into the posher accents of the middle-class young; you can hear it in Lily Allen's voice and you can certainly hear it from the public schoolboys and ...
Not Actual Size, 2012
9
Multicultural London English
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Multicultural London English (abbreviated MLE), colloquially called Jafaican, is a dialect (and/or sociolect) of English that emerged in the late 20th century.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
10
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
The result has been the emergence of the new variety described in chapter 8, Multicultural London English, sometimes called Jafaican. This variety is used by young people of diverse ethnicities, including black African-Caribbean, black ...
Janet Holmes, Professor of Linguistics Janet Holmes, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JAFAICAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Jafaican is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Cockroaches, ITV2 / Crims, BBC Three
The cast enlarged when they encountered a tribe of wood-dwelling dropouts led by Oscar (the ubiquitous Jack Whitehall), a Jafaican-spouting ... «The Arts Desk, Jan 15»
2
Beating these bloody, banal jihadis
Somehow, the accent makes all the difference. The murderer in the Islamic State videos speaks “Jafaican,” a street cant that young people from ... «Washington Examiner, Nov 14»
3
UKIP furious after Red Cross reject Mike Read's 'Calypso' donation
... is right in the strictest sense, Read's efforts have been dogged by controversy since he decided to perform in a toe-curling 'Jafaican' accent. «Gigwise, Oct 14»
4
16 times the worlds of music and politics should not have met
UKIP Calypso: Not content with the unwarranted bastardisation of ABBA, UKIP released a calypso jingle, complete with full-on Jafaican accent ... «Gigwise, Oct 14»
5
UKIP attempt to influence votes with truly terrible calypso single
... composed by former Radio One DJ Mike Reid. For reasons best known to Reid himself, he performs the track with a full on 'Jafaican' accent. «Gigwise, Oct 14»
6
What makes some British Muslims become jihadis?
Let's mock their underpants bombs and their half Jafaican slang and their attempts to set fire to glass and steel airports by driving into them and ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 14»
7
Hunt on for British citizen involved in murder of journalist James Foley
This accent is also sometimes referred to as Jafaican. It has some features of Afro-Caribbean languages and it's a language, it's an accent ... «ABC Online, Aug 14»
8
Ukip's nutty xenophobia hasn't scared away immigrants – and thank …
Anyone I hear speaking in a "Jafaican" accent: no thanks. I understand that young people believe they have a right to perfect self-expression. «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 14»
9
Laneway festival – review
A slight young man with red hair, flowing grey clothes and a Jafaican-inflected voice that sounds like he's been gargling lava, he should add up ... «The Guardian, Jan 14»
10
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford curses in a jafaican accent when he's loaded
A video of Toronto Mayor Rob "Laughable Bumblefuck" Ford drunk and bellowing obscenities in a jafaican accent has surfaced. Ford, a ... «Boing Boing, Jan 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Jafaican [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/jafaican>. Apr 2024 ».
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