Bustamante backbone
English
Etymology
Named after Alexander Bustamante, Jamaican politician; the hard texture is supposed to symbolize his firmness of character.
Noun
Bustamante backbone (uncountable)
- (Jamaica) A hard confection made with grated coconut and ginger.
Jamaican Creole
FWOTD – 6 August 2022
Etymology
Refers to the resoluteness of Sir William Alexander Clarke Bustamante, Jamaica's first prime minister.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbʌstaˌmantɪ ˈbakˈbʷoːn/
- Hyphenation: bus‧ta‧man‧te‧back‧bone
Noun
Bustamante backbone (plural: Bustamante backbone dem or Bustamante backbones dem, quantified: Bustamante backbone)
- Bustamante backbone
- 1996, Honor Ford Smith, My Mother's Last Dance, page 80.
- Yuh see whentime you read it inna
Star seh stranger come in a district
And lickle more a pickney disappear?
Is Fallen Angel carry dem way
Fallen Angel love sweetie,
bulla cake or Bustamante backbone
and especially paradise plum.- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 2006, L. A. Augustin, Sound Awareness (in English), →ISBN, page 62:
- “The Bustamante Backbone was so very good, she remembered. They were a delicious jaw-breaking delight. The children called them "Busta". She could almost taste them, still. Verona wondered whether that particular candy was still being ... […] ”
- 1996, Honor Ford Smith, My Mother's Last Dance, page 80.
See also
- buss mi jaw
- busta
- coconut drops
- gizzada
- grater cake
- staggaback