D Letter Words for Nigerian English
to Nigerian Translation

Nigerian

Word

Continuous Meaning

ENGLISH

NIGERIAN

 D.

 dabaru

  spoil

 dada

  dreadlocks

 dagbo

  fake; something that has been forged; falsified or done in an inappropriate way and manners.

 damask

  damask For those who do not know what damask looks like, it is an ornamented fabric with special pattern. It has a hard, paper-like texture, which softens after series of washings. Back in the 60s, damask was used to sew iro and buba as well as danshiki. Today, it is being limited to ipele, gele and fila, probably because it is expensive. {Very similar to standard dictionary definitions; consult expert for differences.}

 dampy

  damp

 danfo

  passengers bus

 danfo

  used to describe an ugly bus; most of which are VW Combi buses or really old school buses that have gone through a lot - accidents; panel-beating; rusting; and more accidents {e.g. Mr Man, are you the danfo driver? Oga conductor, this danfo na serious one o!}

 danfo

  van used for passenger transport {Yoruba}

 danfo driver

  bus driver

 danga

  fight

 danshiki

  man's loose, short gown {Hausa}

 dash

  gift

 dash

  to give a gift or bride; given for free is this a dash? to give; for free Dash me this thing!.

 dat

  that

 dat one na grammar

  phrase of dismissal to show that something is not practical or too complex, or maybe just impossible {e.g. dat one na grammar, now you fix the gen or the machine}

 dead stone

  any stone that looks hard but breaks easily he found to his surprise it was dead stone calque from matace dutse

 deadness

  complete silence at night that night, there was complete deadness; impotence the deadness of his penis concerns him

 deal on

  to deal in; She deals on cloth

 dealer on

  dealer in; Dealer on electrical equipments

 deck out; barf up

  dressed up

 deep

  complex or pure form of a language; He is speaking deep Nupe.

 defile the air

  to fart Who is defiling the air? schoolboy euphemism

 deleb palm

  fan-palm

 delete

  to die or get killed

 deliver

  to give birth my sister has delivered my sister has given birth My wife has delivered a male child.

 dem

  them

 dem say dem say

  hearsay; gossipers or rumour mongers

 dembele

  a big fool

 demo

  show off or use style on someone

 demurrage

  a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure

 denge

  show off

 denge

  this word means to show off

 denge pose

  posing or showing off

 depe

  total stupid person

 dey

  to be; to be alive; to exist plenty; dey there is plenty; God dey Proverbial exclamation more pidgin than Nigerian English proper; in the process of doing something

 dey bambam

  very comfortable

 dey brekete

  plenty

 dey don talk am

  they have said it

 dey flex

  enjoy

 dey go

  keep going or leave

 dey kakraka

  very strong

 dezgi

  show off; behaving as if not concerned or interested

 Di guyman tank tomashanko finish; e put head for road

  After the boy drank the native gin, he left

 dia

  their

 die

  die/pass on

 die

  so much; too much; to cease functioning; to no longer work; the moto has died.

 die it

  forget the matter or bone the talk

 die-it

  shut up

 dirts

  dirt sweep away these dirts

 dis

  this

 disarm

  to steal

 discuss

  to discuss {mentioning no topic} We discussed for a long time

 disting

  for 'This thing' but used generically for anything whose name has been forgotten tight the disting i.e. tighten the nut Pidgin

 distributor

  a woman/girl who is a source of STD {sexually transmitted diseases}

 disturb

  to annoy, to irritate, but not disturb in the Standard English sense he is disturbing me too much.

 disvirgin

  to deflower {a virgin} girls never forget the man who disvirgined them

 dive

  to overreact

 do

  used to emphasise present continuous periodic conflicts do occur

 do interj

  used as equivalent to 'please' by some old-fashioned speakers Do, allow me to close early

 do quick

  hurry up

 doctor

  any expert watch-doctor watch-repairer.

 dodo

  fried plantain {ripe plantain only}; Musa paradisiaca {Yoruba}

 dodo

  masquerade or other spiritual entity performed by non-Muslims in the north they are doing dodo today {Hausa}

 doing

  happening. Either in the phrase anything doing or nothing doing Archaic

 doke

  to have sex with.

 dokita

  doctor

 doll baby

  a dumb person

 doll-baby

  doll

 dommot

  house; abode

 domot

  your area; your main living quarters; it's never a house sha; usually lived in by university students or touts with restrictions on money; derived from the word door mouth {e.g. comot for my domot were! - meaning... leave my area idiot!}

 don

  past tense; to have completed something

 donatus

  a woman/girl with many sex partners

 dorti

  dirty; to get drunk

 doti-doti

  dirtiness; always dirty

 double face

  two-facedness; He is a man of double face

 doum

  dum palm French spelling used widely in the far North

 douse...on

  to pour on She took a gallon containing kerosene, doused some on the girl's hands and laps and set her ablaze

 download

  defecate

 down-wine

  wine tapped from a fallen or felled oil or raphia palm

 dowry

  marriage-payment in either direction, thus equal to brideprice

 dox

  to have sexual intercourse. Usually of the mind blowing way or to someone surprise

 draw

  mucilaginous; We are enjoying draw soup typically in the expression 'draw soup', a sauce made from sticky vegetables such as okra and Jew's mallow.

 draw

  to form long mucilaginous strings {of sauce} This soup draws well.

 dress

  adjust; to move aside; make room

 dress

  any type of formal or elaborate clothing for either sex He is putting on his dress he is putting on formal clothes.

 dress

  to decorate, embellish dressing of Danfo {Lagos sign}

 dress up

  to dress not equal to dress smartly

 drink

  to ingest esp. medicine and including tablets etc. I have a terrible headache. I'm going to drink two Panadol and go to bed? calque from Hausa sha magani

 drive

  to chase away {often jocular} I came to visit you and now you are driving me! I won't come again.

 drive

  to instigate or be the cause of someone or something going away

 driver

  someone who is hired to drive a person or family around; chauffeur

 drop

  section of route regularly plied by taxi or bus with a standard fare from here to the junction is two drops; hire of a taxi by a single customer/group; Drop is how much?

 drop {down}

  to get down from a vehicle; we are dropping {down} here we are getting down here.

 dry

  means not funny or not interesting

 dub

  to copy

 dubbing

  copying in an exam with variations, contrast rank xerox

 duck-fowl

  duck

 dudu

  black

 dulling

  your bored or something is boring

 dumadu

  local ice cream Substandard ice cream

 dundee united

  stupid or idiot

 dust

  to blow something or someone out of the water; usually used to express the incomparable gap between two people in a race {e.g. You saw tat race... Charity Opara-Thompson dust Veronica Campbell-Brown for dat race oh!}