Land of Look Behind
the historic nickname colonial soldiers gave the Cockpit Country frontier
- Kind
- expression
- Heard in
- Trelawny, Cockpit Country
Soldiers rode two to a horse, one facing backward, watching for ambush from any direction.
Patois is a language in its own right, with grammar that is not English grammar. The meaning above is how the conversation uses this phrase, not a word-for-word translation. The Patwa is a draft still awaiting review by Jamaican speakers.