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Nigerian Word |
Continuous Meaning |
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D. |
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dabaru |
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spoil |
dada |
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dreadlocks |
dagbo |
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fake; something that has been forged; falsified or done in an inappropriate way and manners. |
damask |
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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 |
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damp |
danfo |
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passengers bus |
danfo |
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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 |
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van used for passenger transport {Yoruba} |
danfo driver |
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bus driver |
danga |
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fight |
danshiki |
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man's loose, short gown {Hausa} |
dash |
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gift |
dash |
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to give a gift or bride; given for free is this a dash? to give; for free Dash me this thing!. |
dat |
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that |
dat one na grammar |
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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 |
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any stone that looks hard but breaks easily he found to his surprise it was dead stone calque from matace dutse |
deadness |
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complete silence at night that night, there was complete deadness; impotence the deadness of his penis concerns him |
deal on |
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to deal in; She deals on cloth |
dealer on |
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dealer in; Dealer on electrical equipments |
deck out; barf up |
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dressed up |
deep |
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complex or pure form of a language; He is speaking deep Nupe. |
defile the air |
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to fart Who is defiling the air? schoolboy euphemism |
deleb palm |
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fan-palm |
delete |
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to die or get killed |
deliver |
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to give birth my sister has delivered my sister has given birth My wife has delivered a male child. |
dem |
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them |
dem say dem say |
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hearsay; gossipers or rumour mongers |
dembele |
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a big fool |
demo |
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show off or use style on someone |
demurrage |
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a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure |
denge |
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show off |
denge |
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this word means to show off |
denge pose |
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posing or showing off |
depe |
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total stupid person |
dey |
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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 |
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very comfortable |
dey brekete |
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plenty |
dey don talk am |
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they have said it |
dey flex |
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enjoy |
dey go |
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keep going or leave |
dey kakraka |
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very strong |
dezgi |
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show off; behaving as if not concerned or interested |
Di guyman tank tomashanko finish; e put head for road |
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After the boy drank the native gin, he left |
dia |
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their |
die |
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die/pass on |
die |
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so much; too much; to cease functioning; to no longer work; the moto has died. |
die it |
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forget the matter or bone the talk |
die-it |
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shut up |
dirts |
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dirt sweep away these dirts |
dis |
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this |
disarm |
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to steal |
discuss |
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to discuss {mentioning no topic} We discussed for a long time |
disting |
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for 'This thing' but used generically for anything whose name has been forgotten tight the disting i.e. tighten the nut Pidgin |
distributor |
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a woman/girl who is a source of STD {sexually transmitted diseases} |
disturb |
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to annoy, to irritate, but not disturb in the Standard English sense he is disturbing me too much. |
disvirgin |
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to deflower {a virgin} girls never forget the man who disvirgined them |
dive |
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to overreact |
do |
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used to emphasise present continuous periodic conflicts do occur |
do interj |
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used as equivalent to 'please' by some old-fashioned speakers Do, allow me to close early |
do quick |
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hurry up |
doctor |
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any expert watch-doctor watch-repairer. |
dodo |
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fried plantain {ripe plantain only}; Musa paradisiaca {Yoruba} |
dodo |
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masquerade or other spiritual entity performed by non-Muslims in the north they are doing dodo today {Hausa} |
doing |
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happening. Either in the phrase anything doing or nothing doing Archaic |
doke |
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to have sex with. |
dokita |
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doctor |
doll baby |
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a dumb person |
doll-baby |
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doll |
dommot |
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house; abode |
domot |
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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 |
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past tense; to have completed something |
donatus |
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a woman/girl with many sex partners |
dorti |
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dirty; to get drunk |
doti-doti |
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dirtiness; always dirty |
double face |
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two-facedness; He is a man of double face |
doum |
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dum palm French spelling used widely in the far North |
douse...on |
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to pour on She took a gallon containing kerosene, doused some on the girl's hands and laps and set her ablaze |
download |
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defecate |
down-wine |
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wine tapped from a fallen or felled oil or raphia palm |
dowry |
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marriage-payment in either direction, thus equal to brideprice |
dox |
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to have sexual intercourse. Usually of the mind blowing way or to someone surprise |
draw |
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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 |
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to form long mucilaginous strings {of sauce} This soup draws well. |
dress |
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adjust; to move aside; make room |
dress |
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any type of formal or elaborate clothing for either sex He is putting on his dress he is putting on formal clothes. |
dress |
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to decorate, embellish dressing of Danfo {Lagos sign} |
dress up |
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to dress not equal to dress smartly |
drink |
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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 |
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to chase away {often jocular} I came to visit you and now you are driving me! I won't come again. |
drive |
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to instigate or be the cause of someone or something going away |
driver |
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someone who is hired to drive a person or family around; chauffeur |
drop |
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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} |
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to get down from a vehicle; we are dropping {down} here we are getting down here. |
dry |
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means not funny or not interesting |
dub |
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to copy |
dubbing |
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copying in an exam with variations, contrast rank xerox |
duck-fowl |
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duck |
dudu |
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black |
dulling |
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your bored or something is boring |
dumadu |
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local ice cream Substandard ice cream |
dundee united |
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stupid or idiot |
dust |
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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!} |
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