badmind
Jamaican Creole
Alternative forms
- badmine, bad mine, bad mind, bad-mind
Etymology
Compound of bad (“evil”) + mind (“mind”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbad ˈmaɪn/
- Hyphenation: bad‧mind
Adjective
badmind
- envious, jealous (envious)
- 1989, Stephen Slemon, Helen Tiffin, After Europe: Critical Theory and Post-colonial Writing, →ISBN, page 56:
- “[...] puss an dawg no have di same luck , an me no waan nobody seh a bad mind me bad mind mek me a ask dem ya lickle question. ”
- [...] the world isn't fair. I don't want anybody to say that I'm asking these questions because I'm envious.
- Yuh too badmind.
- You're such an envious person.
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- bitter, grudgeful, malicious, resentful, spiteful (malicious)
- 2008, Curdella Forbes, A Permanent Freedom, →ISBN, page 12:
- “Miss Maldene, I hear dem talking bout how you bring obeah into the district, but I don't listen to dem, I say oonu too wicked and bad mind, not a thing more than the lady have a gift and she helping out her fellow man.”
- Miss Maldene, I've heard the rumours that you've brought black magic into our community. I don't pay attention to them. I told them that they're wicked and malicious. The only thing happening is the lady has a gift and she's helping others.
- How yuh badmind so?
- Why are you so spiteful?
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Noun
badmind
- envy, jealousy (envy)
- 1961, Spotlight: Caribbean Newsmagazine, volume 22-23, page 30:
- “"Dem face no pretty but dem no ha bad mind," said Kapo's caption at his recent exhibition at Hills Galleries.”
- "Their faces aren't pretty but they aren't green with envy", said Kapo's caption at his recent exhibition at Hills Galleries.
- Badmind a wah a mash up di country right yah now.
- Envy is what's destroying the country nowadays.
- Bun bad mind!
- To hell with envy.
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- bitterness, malice, malicious nature, malicious ways, resentment, spite (malice)
- 1984, Paul Keens-Douglas, Lal Shop: Short Stories and Dialect Poetry, →ISBN, page 106:
- “Nex' ting yu know , one ah dem jus' get fed up an' decide to drop dead jus' for bad mind . She say some people does dead for spite.”
- "The next thing you know, one of them just get fed up and decided to drop dead out of spite.
- Badmind a kill dem.
- Their own bitterness is killing them.
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Further reading
- Richard Allsopp, editor, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 1996 (2003 printing), →ISBN, page 67