Y Letter Words for Nigerian English
to Nigerian Translation

Nigerian

Word

Continuous Meaning

ENGLISH

NIGERIAN

 Y.

 y

  a short form for why

 ya

  Your

 ya dabe

  may you live long {Hausa}

 yab

  mock

 yab

  to make fun of someone, diss.

 yabbis

  joke at another person's expense

 yahoo boys

  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

  frauds on the internet {yahoozee}

 yahooze

  internet fraud

 yahozee

  dance steps formed by a Nigerian artist known as Olu Maintain

 yakata

 carelessly

 yakata

  heavily

 yakpa

  plenty or in abundance

 yakubu

  usually used to refer to a person who misuses opportunities regularly.

 yakubuu

  it is used when refering to someone as a failure

 yama yama

  disgusting

 yama yama

  this word is used to describe something that is disgusting and probably sticky.

 yamayama

  rubbish

 yama-yama

  rubbish

 yan

  to talk or communicate

 yanga

  to pose, show off

 yankee

  United States of America {USA; US of A}

 yansh

 buttocks

 yansh

  ass or buttocks

 yanshman

  Homosexual.

 yaradua

  prolonged absence

 yaradua

  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

  length of cloth I went to market to buy some yards

 yarn

  communicate

 yarn

  to Say; Talk

 yarnsh

  bottom

 yarnsh man

  homosexual

 yash

  bottom

 yashman

  gay guy.

 yawa

  problem

 yawa

  problem

 yawa

  problem, get into trouble usually with the law or someone closely related.

 yawa don gas

  problem has started

 yawa don gas

  things have exploded into trouble!

 yawa don gas

  trouble looms

 yawa go gas

  there will be problem

 ye pa

  yikes!

 yeee

  Exclamation, usually negative

 yeka

  the name of the winner of the 1st ever edition of Nigerian idols. Yeka Onka

 yellow

  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

  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

  hepatitis, jaundice

 Yellow Fever

  traffic policeman; A Yellow Fever stopped me; so named because of their orange uniforms

 yellow fever

  traffic warden

 yellow man

  Albino or very light skinned man.

 Yes now!

  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

  bad/spoil; Useless and senseless; Of a person or a thing.

 ye-ye

  for example, u tu dey yeye, means you're very naughty

 y-factor

  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

  an awkward movement of the lips towards the nose acknowledging that someone is jonzing.

 yimu

  {Yoruba}; to push one's lips as if pointing at someone with it in mockery.

 yon

  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

  far away or rather yonder

 yori yori

  sweetness, a good feeling about someone or something

 yoruba

  a tribe in Nigeria

 you are looking for my trouble

  You are trying a problem with me.

 you chop craze

  are you mad

 you chop witch?

 Are you a witchcraft?

 you dey mad

  are you crazy

 you don kolo

  you're beginning to act foolishly

 you for tell me

  you would have told me

 you go fear fear

  scared to death. Usually used to exaggerate the degree of an event or happening.

 you go know yourself

  a threat said before a confrontation or fight.

 you go wound

  dangerous, harmful, not for your betterement

 you're next o!

  you're in line to get married/have a baby etc...

 your father yansh

  Your father ass

 youth

  when "youth" is pluralized to "youths" it often means "young men". When "youth" refers to both sexes it is never pluralized.