Trinidad and Tobagian

English

Etymology

From Trinidad and Tobago +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Trinidad and Tobagian

  1. Rare form of Trinidad and Tobagonian.
    • 2007, David M. Addison, Sometime in Sorrento: A Sequel to An Italian Journey, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 314:
      Well, it's all right to have the confidence of a Trinidad and Tobagian tobogganist, I reflect, but then when you’ve not read many books other than green and whites for a while, it’s not surprising that I haven’t come across some arresting openings other than the famous, and I suspect apocryphal: “Damn!” said the duchess, “but someone’s done my lover in” - which is supposed to contain a heady mixture of sex, violence, exoticism, eroticism and racy language, and therefore irresistible to the reader.
    • 2017, Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Devyani Sharma, editors, The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 764:
      Trinidad and Tobagian English, [pages] 394, 396
    • 2022, Stuart Cosgrove, Hey America!: The Epic Story of Black Music and the White House, Polygon, →ISBN:
      He was also a music fan who, on leaving his post, bowed out to a song by the Trinidad and Tobagian calypso singer Lord Kitchener: ‘London Is The Place For Me’.
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