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NIGERIAN ENGLISH DICTIONARY
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Nigerian Word |
Continuous Meaning |
ENGLISH NIGERIAN |
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waaka |
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walk |
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wack |
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to eat food |
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wack |
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to eat Man must wack! Name of chop-bar students' slang {Pidgin} |
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wackies |
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Foods, heavy Foods, Afican Foods |
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wad |
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lots of money |
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wafi |
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pidgin english |
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wahala |
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problem or trouble. |
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wahala |
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trouble, problem; I had plenty wahala; I had lots of trouble; This boy made wahala for me {Hausa} |
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waist |
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back, lower back My waist is paining me; I have back-pain |
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wait |
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white |
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wak |
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to eat your food with a lot vigor |
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wak for legedis |
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walk with your legs |
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waka |
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walk away |
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waka waka |
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roamy |
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waka waka |
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ashewo; prostitue |
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wakabout |
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one who enjoys walking around or walking around aimlessly |
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wakka |
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walk |
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wakka |
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walk {away} |
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walahi |
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believe me or I swear |
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walahi |
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I swear to God; believe me |
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walnut |
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nut; eaten as a snack; Tetracarpidium conophorum |
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wan |
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want |
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wan |
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to do or want to |
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wangara |
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Policeman; also see eke |
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want |
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to be about to, to be able to; The car didn't want to start |
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wash |
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celebrate |
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wash |
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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 |
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wash |
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using or celebrating a newly acquired good for the first time. |
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wash off |
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to wash out, clean off; he was washing off his dress i.e. he was cleaning his clothes |
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watar don pass gari |
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the water is more than the gari, so you can not eat it! Is used to refer to a situation gone bad. |
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watch night |
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security guard |
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watchnight |
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night watch man |
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watchnight |
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night-watchman giving way to security {man} |
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water don pass gari |
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a bad situation |
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water proof |
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plastic bags. |
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waterproof |
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plastic bag |
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wave |
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to wave at I waved him but he did not see me |
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wax |
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wax-printed decorative cloth, formerly often from Holland she went to market to buy wax also Dutch wax |
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waya |
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seriously wanting or needing food or such feeling; having a strong wish or desire. |
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wayo |
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cheat |
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wayo |
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trickery and deception; {Igbo Egwu card - Iwere nkea irie mu ego music by Leonard Okpala 'Peace Maker'} |
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waziri nose |
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a curse word; Extremely wide nostrils. |
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wazobia |
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fifty naira note |
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we bin dey grass for bush |
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we were smoking {Indian hemp} in the bush |
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wear |
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put on Wear your shoes! {Parent to child} |
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wears |
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clothes Unisex wears |
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weave-on {also weavon} |
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hairdressing style where additional hair is added to the natural one |
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well well |
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properly, totally or completely. |
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wella |
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Well |
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Welldone! |
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General approval after someone has completed; Afternoon! Welldone! {Also encouragement to someone working: equivalent to Igbo Jisi ike, Yoruba Ekuse! {check}, etc.} |
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well-fed |
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fat {as Standard English but applied to animals} a gift of a well-fed cow |
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well-well |
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very well; You do this thing well-well; You should do it very well; Pidgin |
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welu welu |
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very well |
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welu welu |
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a word to emphasize how good something is |
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wen |
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when |
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werey |
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{Yoruba} mad, crazy, to act irrational |
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western baba |
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Western union; an international money transfer company |
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wet ground |
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gratification |
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wetin |
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what |
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wetin |
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what is |
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wetin de hap |
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whats happening; whats going on |
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wetin dey |
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whats up?; what's up?; how's it going? |
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wetin dey sele; way-tin day shell-eh |
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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} |
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Wetin dey worry dis wan?! Ebi like say your crase don ripe?! Carry your tata reasoning go tumble Boko haram bomb |
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Whats wrong with you?! It seems like you are insane. Take your childish ways and go defuse a Boko Haram bomb |
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wetin do you |
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what's the problem with you? |
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wetin u dey vomit |
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what are u saying |
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wetin u no sabi |
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what u don't know |
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wey |
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where |
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wey |
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where is |
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wey u |
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where are u |
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what and what |
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Used when the anticipated reply includes more than one item. What and what did you buy? |
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What is mutation |
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the action or process of mutating; Mutation is a natural process that changes a DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid sequence |
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What of ...? |
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What about...? What of my feeding? What about money to pay for food? |
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whether |
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stands for if, to see if.. let us go to the office, whether he is there |
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whinch |
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a bad person |
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whinzy |
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bad- luck |
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whnich man |
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evil man |
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whosai |
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never, impossible |
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whot |
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it's a popular card game |
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why you dey fall my hand? |
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Used to describe a situation whereby another person tries to expose you or antagonize you. |
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wida |
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Whats Up |
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wild pumpkin |
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climbing plant with yellow flowers whose fruit is used as sponge; Luffa cylindrica |
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will |
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would; he will like to go to Abuja |
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winch |
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witch; a person who does juju or black magic |
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winchi winchi |
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Witches |
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wind |
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to tease or pull ones legs. |
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windstrap |
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whirlwind, tornado used in Kaduna. Locally analysed as 'wind's trap'. |
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winsch |
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a witch |
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winsh |
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a bad person, a witch |
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within |
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inside {but not in an inner room}; He is within. {i.e. he is somewhere in the building} |
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without |
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Food bought in a bukka that does not have any meat in it. |
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wizzo |
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a witch or wizard |
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woggly |
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wowo + Ugly = Woggly |
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wolf |
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hyena |
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woman |
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female the market is completely a women affair |
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woman lappa |
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When a man is easily controlled by a woman |
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woman wrapper |
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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} |
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woman wrapper |
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weakling {of a man} |
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Wonderful! |
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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! |
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wonderfullous |
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Wonderful |
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work-bar |
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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 |
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working-place |
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work-place |
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worri |
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disturb, to disturb so; to be a worry to so, to have sorrow, to worry. |
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worry |
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to annoy, to trouble; This thing worries me too much |
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worry |
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Wrong or cause pain |
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wor-wor |
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ugly |
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worwor |
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Ugly or bad looking person; your girl friend is worwor {your girl friend is ulgy} |
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wots d level |
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how u doin |
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would |
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will {e.g. I would send it} |
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would |
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will Federal Government would solve light problems by next year |
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wound |
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injuries, sexually transmitted disease; especially Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) |
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wound injure |
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injury |
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wowo |
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Ugly, gone wrong |
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woz |
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to slap |
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woze |
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to hit or to eat |
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woze; whoze |
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to beat up; used to describe a very effective punch or slap. |
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wrap |
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piece of food wrapped in a leaf; She gave me a wrap of moinmoin she gave me one leaf-packet of cooked bean paste |
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wrapper |
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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 |
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wuna |
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a group of people |
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wund |
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to get hurt or to hurt someone; see wound |
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wunjure |
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to wound or injure other or one's self |
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wuru wuru |
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unfaithful or deceitful |
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wuru wuru |
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not Straightforward |
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