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Jamaican Patois · Descriptions and adjectives

Wutliss

Worthless, good-for-nothing

Say itWUT-liss

JLU spelling
wotlis
Also written
Wutless, Wotless

What “Wutliss” means

Wutliss means worthless or useless. It is most often said about a person, very often a man, seen as lazy, unreliable or badly behaved. It can also describe something of no value.

Examples

Him a one wutliss man, im nuh work fi nutten.

He's a good-for-nothing man, he doesn't work at all.

Dis phone wutliss.

This phone is useless.

How to use it

A real insult when aimed at a person, and a common one in family arguments and relationship quarrels. About objects it is just a complaint.