fawad

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole fahwud (“to come”), farwud, faawud, itself a respelling of English forward.

Verb

fawad (third-person singular simple present fawads, present participle fawading, simple past and past participle fawaded)

1. (MTE, slang) To come.
   • 2014 April 16, @___KDW, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 8 October 2023:

     Looolll all mans fawaded to the store just now

   • 2017 April 14, @ThatDudeMCFLY, Twitter‎^[2], archived from the original on 8 October 2023:

     #IfChristWasATorontoMan ¶ Jesus: How many my yutes tryna fawad to heaven? ¶ 12 mans: [a GIF of a large group of people raising their hand]

   • 2020 September 13, @misskiyaaa, Twitter‎^[3], archived from the original on 8 October 2023:

     I just wanna thank my great great grandfather for fawading to Canada and not the States 🙏🏾

   • 2023 June 14, u/Rozkough, “[deleted by user]”, in Reddit‎^[4], r/Torontology, archived from the original on 8 October 2023:

     He needs to be involved someway when the World Cup fawads over here still

   • 2023 October 3, u/Interesting-Test180, “Why do people from Toronto talk like Jamaicans?”, in Reddit‎^[5], r/askTO, archived from the original on 8 October 2023:

     FORD REALLY USED TO FAWAD TO THE TRENCHES AND WALK AROUND MAN OF THE PEOPLE DEM

Further reading

• “fawad”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.