follow fashion
Jamaican Creole
Alternative forms
- follow-fashion
Etymology
Literally, "copy a style."
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfalaˌfaʃɪn/
- Hyphenation: fo‧llow‧fa‧shion
Adjective
follow fashion
- Exhibiting copycat behaviour.
- 2002, Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Robert Brock Le Page, Dictionary of Jamaican English (in English), →ISBN, page 184:
- “FOLLOW-FASHION adj and sb; cf OED follow v. 8. G
A. adj. Imitative; tending to copy what is done by others. […] ”
- Di neighbour dem suh follow fashion. Everyting mi buy put inna mi yard, dem haffi buy too.
- The neighbours are such copycats. Whenever I buy something for my home, they buy the same thing too.
Derived terms
- follow fashion monkey