wagwan

greeting in the patois dialect of jamaica, rather than a “b-st-rdization” of “what’s going on” though it is the equivelant.

originally evolved out of the dialect formed by african slaves being taught to speak english by the british in jamaica during the peak of sugar plantations.
used in a greeting as, “hey mon, wagwan”.
b-st-rdization of “what’s going on?”
wagwan my brotha
jamaican slang for “what’s going on?”
used as a greeting: “wa gwan fred?” or simply “wa-gwan!”
used as a question: “wa gwan(ing) with that?”
my london boys told me that wag wan is slang mostly used in hackney and it means ‘whats going on ‘

wag wan – whats going on say it slow it sounds like whats going on

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1 – “h-llo mate”
2 – “wag wan brov”
used in the same context as whats up? or hows it going?
yo wa gwan starr?
a formal greetin between 2 homies who known each other since bak in da day:”wats going on?”
“yo wa gwan blud?”
“nutin man just chillin”
it means a cut/chopped off head of the p-n-s
douch: “ahaa, nice hair mop-head!”
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mop-head:-angrily- “yeah, good one wag-wan”

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