W Letter Words for Nigerian English
to Nigerian Translation

Nigerian

Word

Continuous Meaning

ENGLISH

NIGERIAN

 W.

 waaka

  walk

 wack

  to eat food

 wack

  to eat Man must wack! Name of chop-bar students' slang {Pidgin}

 wackies

  Foods, heavy Foods, Afican Foods

 wad

  lots of money

 wafi

  pidgin english

 wahala

  problem or trouble.

 wahala

  trouble, problem; I had plenty wahala; I had lots of trouble; This boy made wahala for me {Hausa}

 waist

  back, lower back My waist is paining me; I have back-pain

 wait

  white

 wak

  to eat your food with a lot vigor

 wak for legedis

  walk with your legs

 waka

  walk away

 waka waka

  roamy

 waka waka

  ashewo; prostitue

 wakabout

  one who enjoys walking around or walking around aimlessly

 wakka

  walk

 wakka

  walk {away}

 walahi

  believe me or I swear

 walahi

  I swear to God; believe me

 walnut

  nut; eaten as a snack; Tetracarpidium conophorum

 wan

  want

 wan

  to do or want to

 wangara

  Policeman; also see eke

 want

  to be about to, to be able to; The car didn't want to start

 wash

  celebrate

 wash

  to develop film So far; they didn't wash it they haven't developed it yet; to celebrate a new birth or acquisition such as a car When will you wash the car? When will you have a small celebration for your new car? {Hausa} e.g. Za mu wanke shi we will wash it, i.e. celebrate it

 wash

  using or celebrating a newly acquired good for the first time.

 wash off

  to wash out, clean off; he was washing off his dress i.e. he was cleaning his clothes

 watar don pass gari

  the water is more than the gari, so you can not eat it! Is used to refer to a situation gone bad.

 watch night

  security guard

 watchnight

  night watch man

 watchnight

  night-watchman giving way to security {man}

 water don pass gari

  a bad situation

 water proof

  plastic bags.

 waterproof

  plastic bag

 wave

  to wave at I waved him but he did not see me

 wax

  wax-printed decorative cloth, formerly often from Holland she went to market to buy wax also Dutch wax

 waya

  seriously wanting or needing food or such feeling; having a strong wish or desire.

 wayo

  cheat

 wayo

  trickery and deception; {Igbo Egwu card - Iwere nkea irie mu ego music by Leonard Okpala 'Peace Maker'}

 waziri nose

  a curse word; Extremely wide nostrils.

 wazobia

  fifty naira note

 we bin dey grass for bush

  we were smoking {Indian hemp} in the bush

 wear

  put on Wear your shoes! {Parent to child}

 wears

  clothes Unisex wears

 weave-on {also weavon}

  hairdressing style where additional hair is added to the natural one

 well well

  properly, totally or completely.

 wella

  Well

 Welldone!

  General approval after someone has completed; Afternoon! Welldone! {Also encouragement to someone working: equivalent to Igbo Jisi ike, Yoruba Ekuse! {check}, etc.}

 well-fed

  fat {as Standard English but applied to animals} a gift of a well-fed cow

 well-well

  very well; You do this thing well-well; You should do it very well; Pidgin

 welu welu

  very well

 welu welu

  a word to emphasize how good something is

 wen

  when

 werey

  {Yoruba} mad, crazy, to act irrational

 western baba

  Western union; an international money transfer company

 wet ground

  gratification

 wetin

  what

 wetin

  what is

 wetin de hap

  whats happening; whats going on

 wetin dey

  whats up?; what's up?; how's it going?

 wetin dey sele; way-tin day shell-eh

  how are you or what is going depending on how it is used {e.g. Emeka: wetin dey sele? Ifeanyi: notin dey sele o TRANSLATION Emeka, what's up or what happened? Ifeanyi, Nothing much or nothing happened}

 Wetin dey worry dis wan?! Ebi like say your crase don ripe?! Carry your tata reasoning go tumble Boko haram bomb

  Whats wrong with you?! It seems like you are insane. Take your childish ways and go defuse a Boko Haram bomb

 wetin do you

  what's the problem with you?

 wetin u dey vomit

  what are u saying

 wetin u no sabi

  what u don't know

 wey

  where

 wey

  where is

 wey u

  where are u

 what and what

  Used when the anticipated reply includes more than one item. What and what did you buy?

 What is mutation

  the action or process of mutating; Mutation is a natural process that changes a DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid sequence

 What of ...?

  What about...? What of my feeding? What about money to pay for food?

 whether

  stands for if, to see if.. let us go to the office, whether he is there

 whinch

  a bad person

 whinzy

  bad- luck

 whnich man

  evil man

 whosai

  never, impossible

 whot

  it's a popular card game

 why you dey fall my hand?

  Used to describe a situation whereby another person tries to expose you or antagonize you.

 wida

  Whats Up

 wild pumpkin

  climbing plant with yellow flowers whose fruit is used as sponge; Luffa cylindrica

 will

  would; he will like to go to Abuja

 winch

  witch; a person who does juju or black magic

 winchi winchi

  Witches

 wind

  to tease or pull ones legs.

 windstrap

  whirlwind, tornado used in Kaduna. Locally analysed as 'wind's trap'.

 winsch

  a witch

 winsh

  a bad person, a witch

 within

  inside {but not in an inner room}; He is within. {i.e. he is somewhere in the building}

 without

  Food bought in a bukka that does not have any meat in it.

 wizzo

  a witch or wizard

 woggly

  wowo + Ugly = Woggly

 wolf

  hyena

 woman

  female the market is completely a women affair

 woman lappa

  When a man is easily controlled by a woman

 woman wrapper

  a man that is incompetent, lazy and lack ability is often compared to textile material women in some parts of africa wrap over their waist down {e.g. You be woman wrapper means you are an incompetent man}

 woman wrapper

  weakling {of a man}

 Wonderful!

  Exclamation used for a surprising event of any type. Thus on hearing of the death of a close relative it would be appropriate to say Wonderful!; calque of Hausa Mamaki!

 wonderfullous

  Wonderful

 work-bar

  commission claimed from a supercargo by the representatives of a house to which a trade belongs on every twenty puncheons of oil bought Niger Delta, archaic

 working-place

  work-place

 worri

  disturb, to disturb so; to be a worry to so, to have sorrow, to worry.

 worry

  to annoy, to trouble; This thing worries me too much

 worry

  Wrong or cause pain

 wor-wor

  ugly

 worwor

  Ugly or bad looking person; your girl friend is worwor {your girl friend is ulgy}

 wots d level

  how u doin

 would

  will {e.g. I would send it}

 would

  will Federal Government would solve light problems by next year

 wound

  injuries, sexually transmitted disease; especially Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS)

 wound injure

  injury

 wowo

  Ugly, gone wrong

 woz

  to slap

 woze

  to hit or to eat

 woze; whoze

  to beat up; used to describe a very effective punch or slap.

 wrap

  piece of food wrapped in a leaf; She gave me a wrap of moinmoin she gave me one leaf-packet of cooked bean paste

 wrapper

  cloth worn wrapped around the body from the waist to below the knees by males or females tie your wrapper well fix your cloth so that it stays in place

 wuna

  a group of people

 wund

  to get hurt or to hurt someone; see wound

 wunjure

  to wound or injure other or one's self

 wuru wuru

  unfaithful or deceitful

 wuru wuru

  not Straightforward