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Nigerian Word |
Continuous Meaning |
ENGLISH NIGERIAN |
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Y. |
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a short form for why |
ya |
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Your |
ya dabe |
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may you live long {Hausa} |
yab |
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mock |
yab |
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to make fun of someone, diss. |
yabbis |
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joke at another person's expense |
yahoo boys |
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guys that use yahoo for fraud; they send you emails on your yahoo to send them some money or give them your bank account details claiming to use it for a purpose that is beneficial to you but it's a lie you will never hear from them again {e.g. I know say your broda na yahoo boy} |
yahoo yahoo |
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frauds on the internet {yahoozee} |
yahooze |
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internet fraud |
yahozee |
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dance steps formed by a Nigerian artist known as Olu Maintain |
yakata |
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carelessly |
yakata |
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heavily |
yakpa |
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plenty or in abundance |
yakubu |
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usually used to refer to a person who misuses opportunities regularly. |
yakubuu |
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it is used when refering to someone as a failure |
yama yama |
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disgusting |
yama yama |
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this word is used to describe something that is disgusting and probably sticky. |
yamayama |
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rubbish |
yama-yama |
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rubbish |
yan |
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to talk or communicate |
yanga |
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to pose, show off |
yankee |
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United States of America {USA; US of A} |
yansh |
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buttocks |
yansh |
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ass or buttocks |
yanshman |
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Homosexual. |
yaradua |
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prolonged absence |
yaradua |
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a person who abandons his people/post/duty and is silent for a long period of time... also used as a synonym for silence {e.g. my boyfriend's gone yaradua on me again; yaradua is the best answer for a fool} |
yard |
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length of cloth I went to market to buy some yards |
yarn |
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communicate |
yarn |
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to Say; Talk |
yarnsh |
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bottom |
yarnsh man |
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homosexual |
yash |
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bottom |
yashman |
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gay guy. |
yawa |
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problem |
yawa |
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problem |
yawa |
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problem, get into trouble usually with the law or someone closely related. |
yawa don gas |
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problem has started |
yawa don gas |
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things have exploded into trouble! |
yawa don gas |
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trouble looms |
yawa go gas |
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there will be problem |
ye pa |
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yikes! |
yeee |
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Exclamation, usually negative |
yeka |
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the name of the winner of the 1st ever edition of Nigerian idols. Yeka Onka |
yellow |
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light-skinned;Someone who bleaches their skin to become lighter. Common with the ladies {derogatory}; You be original yellow fever means you have bleached your skin to become light}; see that yellow boy! |
yellow fever |
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a traffic warden; a group of policemen/traffic wardens, who used to conduct traffic in the 1990s and earlier. Nowadays, it's regular policemen {dressed in black} and MOPOs {see MOPO}, who conduct traffic, as well as collect bribes. {e.g. Bros, make you hide that Igbo now, we dey approach yellow fever. |
yellow fever |
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hepatitis, jaundice |
Yellow Fever |
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traffic policeman; A Yellow Fever stopped me; so named because of their orange uniforms |
yellow fever |
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traffic warden |
yellow man |
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Albino or very light skinned man. |
Yes now! |
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Response of encouragement to rhetorical polar question. Shall I go buy wrapper at the market? Yes, now! Pronounced with a rising intonation on 'now'. |
yeye |
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bad/spoil; Useless and senseless; Of a person or a thing. |
ye-ye |
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for example, u tu dey yeye, means you're very naughty |
y-factor |
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the behavior, trait, tendency or characteristic feature of a person who withdraws from an agreement at the implementation stage with any prior warning {e.g. this your Y-factor don dey too much, you dey fall my hand all the time} |
yi mu |
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an awkward movement of the lips towards the nose acknowledging that someone is jonzing. |
yimu |
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{Yoruba}; to push one's lips as if pointing at someone with it in mockery. |
yon |
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to run, or walk in a haste. 'Yon' is mimic from the word run. Yon is the way a typical Calabar/Ibibio man pronounces run {e.g. Dem don yon comot} |
yonda |
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far away or rather yonder |
yori yori |
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sweetness, a good feeling about someone or something |
yoruba |
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a tribe in Nigeria |
you are looking for my trouble |
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You are trying a problem with me. |
you chop craze |
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are you mad |
you chop witch? |
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Are you a witchcraft? |
you dey mad |
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are you crazy |
you don kolo |
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you're beginning to act foolishly |
you for tell me |
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you would have told me |
you go fear fear |
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scared to death. Usually used to exaggerate the degree of an event or happening. |
you go know yourself |
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a threat said before a confrontation or fight. |
you go wound |
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dangerous, harmful, not for your betterement |
you're next o! |
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you're in line to get married/have a baby etc... |
your father yansh |
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Your father ass |
youth |
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when "youth" is pluralized to "youths" it often means "young men". When "youth" refers to both sexes it is never pluralized. |
2 letter words y
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3 letter words with y in the middle
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