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Trini¹

  • /ˈtɹɪni/

Where it comes from

Clipping of Trinidadian.

noun Trinis

  1. informal A Trinidadian.

proper noun

  1. informal The island of Trinidad. Summer jobs in Trini are hard to find. A friend of mine from Case Western got an internship/summer job only through some real chain pulling. […] Sad but true, 90% of the people who graduate and get jobs in Trinidad know someone.
  2. informal The Trinidadian Creole language. That night they forced down a meal of fat, juicy termites, raw and wriggling. ‘Well, said Leila ruefully, in broad Trini, ‘I guess what don’t kill does fatten.’

adjective

  1. informal, not comparable Trinidadian. I win the first fight in a straight knockout, but the second one start and […] the Trini man lick me down.

Trini²

  • /ˈtɹɪni/

Where it comes from

From a clipping of Katrina + -i (diminutive suffix).

proper noun Trinis

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Katrina. Thirty years later, at a garden party in Aspen, I met a wonderful lady named Trini Barnes—Katrina McCormick Barnes. When she was young, her parents died and left her a good deal of McCormick wealth, but she had roughly the same attitude toward it as I did!

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Trini. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/trini

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@misc{trini_2026,
  title = {Trini},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/trini},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}