MoBay

M3O1B3A1Y4
/moʊˈbeɪ//mʌˈbeɪ/

proper noun

Montego Bay

OriginJamaican Creole MoBay →
Scrabble 12
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

proper noun
  1. JamaicainformalMontego Bay

    —I'll say that Jamaicans shorten Montego Bay by saying Mobay, not Montego.

    2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 285

Origin

  1. Jamaican CreoleMoBay
  2. EnglishMoBay

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole MoBay.

More words from Jamaican Creole

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Amboy
Cite this entry
APA

MoBay. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MoBay

MLA

“MoBay.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MoBay. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “MoBay,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MoBay.

Source: MoBay on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.