Friday Lime: Rum Jumbie

  • Rum Jumbie (n): Habitual drunkard; alcoholic. (French jumbie -like state induceded by alcoholism.

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Source: Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago by Lise Winer

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