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    Patwa headword

    Macca-fat

    /MAK-ah-FAT/

    Noun
    Gloss
    "Palm fruit"
    Definition
    A wild palm fruit with a hard shell and a thin, sweet, oily pulp.
    Example
    "We used to eat macca-fat when we were kids."
    Origin
    Descriptive.

    As a culinary term, Macca-fat 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.