blocking
Naija
Alternative forms
- warden 0.77 5, ijegun 0.75 10, lagos-badagry 0.74 6, kaduna-abuja 0.74 9, ojota 0.73 15, principality 0.71 5, zuba 0.71 16, creek 0.71 13, neighbourhood 0.71 13
Etymology
etymology:English - blocking
Pronunciation
- blɔ́kîn
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
- Frequency in raw corpus: 7
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 9684
The word is used more in written texts than orally.
Noun
blocking: a bribe -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- E dey block dey pass exam. — (He/she bribes in order to pass exam.)
Derived forms
Synonymes
- warden 0.77 5, ijegun 0.75 10, lagos-badagry 0.74 6, kaduna-abuja 0.74 9, ojota 0.73 15, principality 0.71 5, zuba 0.71 16, creek 0.71 13, neighbourhood 0.71 13
Antonymes
- warden 0.77 5, ijegun 0.75 10, lagos-badagry 0.74 6, kaduna-abuja 0.74 9, ojota 0.73 15, principality 0.71 5, zuba 0.71 16, creek 0.71 13, neighbourhood 0.71 13
Translations
- English: a bribe