rhatid

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1. JamaicaA swear word, like damn or hell.

   "Let him talk to your rhatid backside tonight!”

   2005, Beresford McLean, Providence Pond, →ISBN, page 236

   3 more examples

   "This married man told me his name was Graham Jefferson," she went on, "but his real name is Alan Clayton and he's Bren Hunter's brother-in-law." "But kiss me neck back to rhatid," Sarah cussed, in what was, to her, uncustomary usage of the Caribbean lingo. "They're related?" "Yes," Latisha confirmed.

   2004, Sonia Icilyn, One More Chance, →ISBN, page 112

   'No, but dih addah day dem did catch one big rhatid snake doh!' Jackman interjected.

   2016, H M Hanlan, Sunset on the Horizon The Story of a Rebel Woman, Rebellion and the Jamaica Maroon Treaties, →ISBN

   As yet another example for that, Cyaah Gwaan To Rhatid (Lutan Fyah, 2015b) shows Lutan Fyah judging wit di Bible inna mi hand in regard to structural enforcements of gay liberation – cause Christ never make such law: (...) Things are changing And a lot a things that papa, mama preached against / Dem a force mi fi tolerate it (...) / Say that cyaah gwaan to rhatid' / Mi a judge wit di Bible inna mi hand (...)

   2017, Martin A. M. Gansinger, Radical religious thought in Black popular music. Five Percenters and Bobo Shanti in Rap and Reggae, →ISBN, page 93