Difference between revisions of "tear eye"

Latest revision as of 17:04, 5 June 2023

From English: tear eye

Make person open eye for bad ting.
- Dat babe tear eye die. — (That lady is extremely savvy.)
Make person wise up.
- Dis days, im don dey tear eye o tear eye die. — (These days, he has been more sagacious.)
Make person dey vex.
- Na joke I dey joke. Abeg no come dey tear eye for me. — (I was just joking with you, don't be angry.)

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 ===Etymology===
-From English ''tear eye''
+From English: ''tear eye''
 ===Pronunciation===
-* tíáaì
+* tíáaî
 <sm2>Pcm-ng-tear eye.f.ogg</sm2>
 <sm2>Pcm-ng-tear eye.m.ogg</sm2>
-===Frequency===
-* Frequency in NSC treebank: 2
-* Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2373
-* Frequency in raw corpus: 4
-* Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1250
 ===Verb===
-Make person dey savvy.
+# Make person open eye for bad ting.
-:{{ux|dv|Dat babe ''tear eye'' die. |(NSC_Tella_2020, That lady is extremely savvy.)}}
+#:* {{ux|dv|Dat babe '''tear eye''' die. |(That lady is extremely savvy.)}}
-:{{ux|dv|Dis day, im don dey ''tear eye'' o ''tear eye'' die. |(NSC_Tella_2020, This day, he has been more sagacious.)}}
+# Make person [[wise up]].
+#:* {{ux|dv|Dis days, im don dey '''tear eye''' o '''tear eye''' die. |(These days, he has been more sagacious.)}}
+# Make person dey [[vex]].
+#:* {{ux|dv| Na joke I dey joke. Abeg no come dey '''tear eye''' for me. |(I was just joking with you, don't be angry.)}}
 ====Synonyms====
-* [[wosup]]
+* [[wosup]], [[para]], [[wiseup]]
 ====Translations====
-* English: ''to be savvied''
+* English: ''savvy, vexed, wise''