Difference between revisions of "high waist"

 
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==Naija==
 
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===Etymology===
 
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Borrowed from English highwaste
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From: English ''high'' and ''waist''
  
 
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* àìwêst
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* hàìwêst
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<sm2>Pcm-ng-highwaste.f.ogg</sm2>  
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<sm2>Pcm-ng-high waist.f.ogg</sm2>  
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<sm2>Pcm-ng-highwaste.m.ogg</sm2>  
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<sm2>Pcm-ng-highwaist.m.ogg</sm2>
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* Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
 
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* Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
 
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* Frequency in raw corpus: 0
 
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* Frequency rank in raw corpus: inf
 
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No documented examples in our corpora.
 
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===Noun===
 
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highwaste: someone with a trunk disproportionately shorter that his/her legs. -- Definition in Naija?
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* Person wey im [[leg]] overlong pass im remining body.
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:* {{ux|dv| Why you dey reason sey '''highwaist''' na bad ting? No be im models dey find [[upandown]] now? |(Why do you think having long legs is a bad thing? Isn't that what models desire now?)}}
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# Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
 
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#: {{ux|dv|I no like di babe, e get '''highwaste'''.|no translation}}
 
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* English: someone with a trunk disproportionately shorter that his/her legs.
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* English: ''long legs, leggy''

Latest revision as of 19:37, 29 February 2024

Naija

Etymology

From: English high and waist

Pronunciation

  • hàìwêst

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Noun

  • Person wey im leg overlong pass im remining body.
  • Why you dey reason sey highwaist na bad ting? No be im models dey find upandown now?  — (Why do you think having long legs is a bad thing? Isn't that what models desire now?)

Translations

  • English: long legs, leggy