Meanings
present singular third person fawads · participle present fawading · participle past fawaded · past fawaded
- slangTo come.
Looolll all mans fawaded to the store just now
2014 April 16, @___KDW, Twitter, archived from the original on 08 Oct 20234 more examples
#IfChristWasATorontoMan ¶ Jesus: How many my yutes tryna fawad to heaven? ¶ 12 mans: [a GIF of a large group of people raising their hand]
2017 April 14, @ThatDudeMCFLY, Twitter, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2023I just wanna thank my great great grandfather for fawading to Canada and not the States 🙏🏾
2020 September 13, @misskiyaaa, Twitter, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2023He needs to be involved someway when the World Cup fawads over here still
2023 June 14, u/Rozkough, “[deleted by user]”, in Reddit, r/Torontology, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2023FORD REALLY USED TO FAWAD TO THE TRENCHES AND WALK AROUND MAN OF THE PEOPLE DEM
2023 October 3, u/Interesting-Test180, “Why do people from Toronto talk like Jamaicans?”, in Reddit, r/askTO, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2023
Origin
- Englishforward
- Jamaican Creolefahwud“to come”
- Englishfawad
Borrowed from Jamaican Creole fahwud (“to come”), farwud, faawud, itself a respelling of English forward.
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fawad. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fawad
“fawad.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fawad. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fawad,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fawad.
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