Part of the Yuh Is Ah Trini Series: Trini-Glish/Trini-Idioms Spoken and Explained. #92
There isn't a nice way to put this one, but I will endeavor to make it sound decent enough for your reading. It is the ultimate insult that can be assigned to a woman. It has been said that all bread has its cheese, and similarly, it is easy for a woman to find a man but difficult for a man to find a woman. This goes without saying if you are one who thinks that every man is a 'dog' or suffers from the 'dog syndrome' of wanting to hump every female he comes in contact with. Now that we got the 'pleasantries' out of the way (lordy), we can now turn our attention to "Your nanny has pickers; yuh cyar, get ah man". However, before we get into the juicy part of the proverb, we need to address two words in the saying: 'nanny' and 'pickers'.
You do know how Trini likes to call it front and center, live and direct... Nanny is used for referencing grandmother in the East Indian communities in Trinidad, but in the context of the discussion, 'nanny' really means 'tun tun," ahem, vagina.
Pickers, Pikah, or Picant are names used to describe a variety of thorns found on the islands, and like Trini likes to say, "Picah go juck yuh... So be careful how yuh thread!" Trini men are, for the most part, very selfish, especially with 'dey saltfish'. Having said that, a figurative nanny that has seen many machauels or as soon as a machauel (oh yes, the machauel is a snake, and this is a reference to a man's penis) is around begins to swoon, which means that 'horn and tabanka soon come'. That is a poonka-nanny that will be labeled spoilt goods, and even though some men will consider it sweet, rumors will label it as'spoilt 'goods'—"dat'"nanny has picker," and yes, it will be difficult (when word gets around) for this woman to get and keep a man.
Now, need I explain the proverb? On the heels of 'nanny' and 'pickers', your addition of one should not give you eleven but leave you with a smile and an understanding of how insulting that proverb is to a female (please don't use it on your female friends, eh well, unless they really deserve it).
When a woman is told that "her nanny has pickers," it literally means that she cannot get a man in a world where men are looked upon as dogs (and dogs don't refuse anything; they will literally 'hump' anything). Just think about that... It is like the days in Trinidad when there was talk about "leper island" and the people who were scorned were sent there to live. A woman whose "nanny has Picah" has "gone to the cleaners" to use another Trini saying, "ting get teeth and it does bite"!
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