Difference between revisions of "egunje"

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* newtory-mata 0.84 15, employment-mata 0.82 5, informate-mata 0.82 5, agriculture-mata 0.81 5, wikileaks 0.80 7, justice-mata 0.80 9, budget-mata 0.80 6, olugbani 0.80 5, assuming 0.80 7
  
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* newtory-mata 0.84 15, employment-mata 0.82 5, informate-mata 0.82 5, agriculture-mata 0.81 5, wikileaks 0.80 7, justice-mata 0.80 9, budget-mata 0.80 6, olugbani 0.80 5, assuming 0.80 7
 
* newtory-mata 0.84 15, employment-mata 0.82 5, informate-mata 0.82 5, agriculture-mata 0.81 5, wikileaks 0.80 7, justice-mata 0.80 9, budget-mata 0.80 6, olugbani 0.80 5, assuming 0.80 7
  
 
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* English: bribe, gratification
 
* English: bribe, gratification

Revision as of 20:05, 10 August 2020

Naija

Alternative forms

  • newtory-mata 0.84 15, employment-mata 0.82 5, informate-mata 0.82 5, agriculture-mata 0.81 5, wikileaks 0.80 7, justice-mata 0.80 9, budget-mata 0.80 6, olugbani 0.80 5, assuming 0.80 7

Etymology

Borrowed from English egunje

Pronunciation

  • ègúndʒē

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 4
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 14003

The word is used more in written texts than orally.


Noun

egunje: bribe, gratification -- Definition in Naija?


  1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
    If you give police egunje, dem go allow drive pass.  — (If you bribe the police, they will give you a pass.)
  2. - (frequency:4)
    dem go say egunje dey  — (deuber__5948, __no translation__)
    nobody go come meet dem give dem egunje  — (deuber__5777, __no translation__)

Derived forms

Synonyms

  • newtory-mata 0.84 15, employment-mata 0.82 5, informate-mata 0.82 5, agriculture-mata 0.81 5, wikileaks 0.80 7, justice-mata 0.80 9, budget-mata 0.80 6, olugbani 0.80 5, assuming 0.80 7

Antonyms

  • newtory-mata 0.84 15, employment-mata 0.82 5, informate-mata 0.82 5, agriculture-mata 0.81 5, wikileaks 0.80 7, justice-mata 0.80 9, budget-mata 0.80 6, olugbani 0.80 5, assuming 0.80 7

Translations

  • English: bribe, gratification