follow fashion

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• follow-fashion

Etymology

Literally, "copy a style."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfalaˌfaʃɪn/
• Hyphenation: fo‧llow‧fa‧shion

Adjective

follow fashion

1. Exhibiting copycat behaviour.

   Di neighbour dem suh follow fashion. Everyting mi buy put inna mi yard, dem haffi buy too.

   The neighbours are such copycats. Whenever I buy something for my home, they buy the same thing too.

   • 2002, Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Robert Brock Le Page, Dictionary of Jamaican English‎^[1] (in English), →ISBN, page 184:

     “FOLLOW-FASHION adj and sb; cf OED follow v. 8. G
     A. adj. Imitative; tending to copy what is done by others. […] ”

Derived terms

• follow fashion monkey