- Gloss
- "Adult female"
- Definition
- A mature, responsible adult woman, or used to demand respect as an adult.
- Example
- "Mi is a big-woman, nuh talk to mi like pickney."
- Origin
- Compound of 'big' and 'woman'.
As an everyday term, Big-woman is one you'll likely come across in real Jamaican speech. Try the Jamaican Patois translator to see it in a sentence, or head back to the lexicon index for more words like it.