amebo

Naija

Etymology

From: Urhobo Avwebọ (or Amebọ as it's pronounced in some parts like Yoruba).

Usage

• Na favorite wife for a polygamous home and na she dey tell de husband everytin wey dey happen.

Pronunciation

• ámԑ̀bɔ́

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 3672
• Frequency in raw corpus: 23
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 4990

Noun

• Na wetin dem dey call person who dey gossip up and down.

• You be amebo.  — ( NSC_Legbeti_2020. You are a gossip.)
• Amebo people too don run.  — (ONI_16_Thief_DG__189, The Gossips too have ran away.)
• Amebo or aproko be like fuel wey dem add join fire  — (jw__1324, gossip can ignite crisis)
• All na amebo o.  — (NST_cleaned__20493, It's all gossip)

• Na make person dey gossip

• Dem sidon do amebo tire.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2020. They sat and had enough gossip.)
• I beg I no wan talk because if I mistake mention name, e go be like say I don do wetin dem dey cal amebo.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2020, I wont speak otherwise if I drop names while talking, It will look like I'm leaking secrets)

Synonyms

aproko, gbeborun

Translations

• English: a gossip, idle talk