bredda (pluralbreddasorbredren)
- (Jamaica, colloquial)brother
2011 September 24, “90-Year-Old Needs Help To Finish House”, inThe Gleaner[1]:"mi need the room dat im in, but mi can't throw him outside because is mibredda"
bredda (pluralbreddadem,quantifiedbredda)
- brother
- Mi a look fi mibredda. ―I'm trying to find my brother.
1989, Stewart Brown, Mervyn Morris, Gordon Rohlehr,Voiceprint: An Anthology of Oral and Related Poetry from the Caribbean (in Jamaican Creole),→ISBN:“Oonoo call mebredda fi me! Beg yuh tell him come yah quick[…]”- Go get mybrother! Please tell him to come here quickly […]
- (figurative)guy
It start gather up a big crowd and it happen that it just a develop till mi go buy a likkle amplifier from abredda downtown.- More and more people started coming and it became so popular that I decided to buy an amplifier from aguy in Kingston.
2006, Eric Jerome Dickey,Chasing Destiny (in Jamaican Creole),→ISBN:“Something wrong wid him. Dabredda dey need to[sic] good lick[…]”- There's something off about him. Someone ought to slap thatguy around a few times. […]
bredda m orf
- definitefemininesingular ofbredd
bredda f
- definitesingular ofbredd
bred +-a
bredda (presentbreddar,preteritebreddade,supinebreddat,imperativebredda)
- towiden (make wider)
bredda en öppning- widen an opening
- tobroaden (increase in extent or comprehensiveness)
bredda sin kunskap- broaden one's knowledge
