leg
Naija
Etymology
From: English leg
Pronunciation
- lɛ̀g
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 22
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 430
- Frequency in raw corpus: 569
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 584
Noun
- Who give am di leg to chop my food? — (NST_cleaned_33883,_ who authorized him/her to eat my food _)
- part of person body wey begin from hip go down and person dey take waka.
- Put your leg for the trouser to check am. — (NSC_Agnes_2020. Put your leg in the trouser to check the fitting.)
- Cross your leg, — (JOS_07_Trousers-And-Short-Skirts_DG__129, Cross your leg.)
- part of person body wey begin from knee go down and person dey take waka.
- {{ux|dv|Put your leg for the trouser to check am. |(NSC_Agnes_2020. Put your leg in the trouser to check the fitting.)}
- match wey dem dey play home and away.
- Di second leg turn to Messi show afta im two quick goals. — (BBC__38172, _The match favoured Messi in the second half after his two quick goals.)
- Dem go play di second leg for di weekend of October 20-22. — (BBC__29212, __ they will play the second hal by the weekend of October, 20 - 22__)
- make something end well
- If the song end for right leg, im mama dey life. — (katakata_180_if the song falls into the right person's hand, his mother will enjoy__)
- One of de papers I submit give government don get correct leg. — (NST_cleaned__37846, __The paper I submitted to the government has been approved __)
- leg of stool
- If the stool leg don break, carry am go give carpenter. — (NSC_Agnes 2020_. If the stool is bad, take it to the carpenter_)
- trouser leg.
- I wan go see my tailor because the left leg of that my new trouser don tear. — (NSC_Agnes 2020_ if the song falls into the hands of the right person, his mother will enjoy__)
Related forms
1st leg, 2nd leg, return leg, K-leg, bow leg
Synonyms
- trek, connection, influence.
Antonyms
- hand
Translations
- English: trek, influence, limb, knock knees,
Verb
- sey person trek
- We fit leg am from here to church. — (Egbokhare,2020. We can actually walk down to church
- We fit leg am from here to church. — (Egbokhare,2020. We can actually walk down to church
- sey person use connection or influence get advantage
- We fit leg that matter?. — (NSC_Agnes,2020. Can we use connection to solve that matter?
- when we reach the policestation, oga leg him gateman release . — (NSC_Agnes 2020. when we reach the policestation, oga leg him gateman release )