Etymology

wagwan

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Today it means: A greeting, equivalent to what's up or what's happening. Full definition →

Jamaican Creole wah gwan ← English what's going on
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The story

  1. English · derived fromwhat's going on
  2. Jamaican Creole · borrowed fromwah gwan
  3. English todaywagwan

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole wah gwan (literally “wha’ goi’ on”), a modified form of English what's going on.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.