dry

Naija

Alternative forms

• cold 0.76 151, hot 0.73 346, leaf 0.71 102, palm 0.71 81, bitter 0.67 36, fish 0.67 323, pour 0.66 199, cocoyam 0.66 22, smell 0.66 97

Etymology

Borrowed from English dry

Pronunciation

• draɪ

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 21
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 436
• Frequency in raw corpus: 170
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1468

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Adjective

dry: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:99)

   Im say dry fish.  — (PRT_05_Ghetto-Life_MG__127, He said, dried fish.)

   Wetin be dry port?  — (bbc__99185, __no translation__)

2. aux-nsubj (frequency:6)

   E don dry.  — (KAD_02_Football_M__68, It has dried.)

   Your yansh go dry.  — (KAD_07_Receptionists_DG__13, Your buttocks will be dry up.)

3. nsubj (frequency:3)

   Any day I dry, me, I dey task.  — (KAD_05_Relationship-Discussion_DG__221, Any day I don't have, I, I task.)

   See how Alaba be now, everywhere dry.  — (LAG_33_Buhari-Recession_M__8, See how Alaba is; everywhere is scanty.)

4. advmod (frequency:3)

   For East Africa, di countries there fit see very dry conditions pass normal.  — (bbc__50105, __no translation__)

   Makrónisos island dry well well, water no dey there and stone full everywhere.  — (jw__23494, __no translation__)

5. conj (frequency:2)

   Coffee processing get two get types - dry and wet Coffee - From seed to cup  — (bbc__25905, __no translation__)

   To make am, pesin go first uproot di cassava, grind am to flour, dry and fry am.  — (bbc__53538, __no translation__)

6. obl:arg (frequency:2)

   E no dey dry for fire.  — (IBA_24_Mummy-Debbie_DG__27, It does not dry on fire.)

   But I tell you dis kind oil if you use am, e no dey, e no dey dry for fire.  — (IBA_24_Mummy-Debbie_DG__13, But I am telling you, this sort of oil, if you use it, it does not... it does not dry in the fire)

7. mark-nsubj (frequency:2)

   Dis one wey everywhere dry, no money.  — (NST_cleaned__34917, __no translation__)

   I go clear busy, buyrn am when e dry.  — (katakata__176, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• cold 0.76 151, hot 0.73 346, leaf 0.71 102, palm 0.71 81, bitter 0.67 36, fish 0.67 323, pour 0.66 199, cocoyam 0.66 22, smell 0.66 97

Antonyms

• cold 0.76 151, hot 0.73 346, leaf 0.71 102, palm 0.71 81, bitter 0.67 36, fish 0.67 323, pour 0.66 199, cocoyam 0.66 22, smell 0.66 97

Translations

• English: no definition

Verb

dry: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:2)

   Dry leaves for ground dey make noise as them dey match them.  — (katakata__653, __no translation__)

   Dry breeze, sun go hot die, dust go full everywhere and sometimes for night, di place go cold .Harmattan dey make nose and mouth dey one kain;  — (bbc__43668, __no translation__)

2. aux-mark-obj (frequency:2)

   Jehovah don promise sey: ‘I go dry all the water wey dey comot from una eye.  — (jw__18253, __no translation__)

   We get the chance to tell everybody wey ready to hear about this better promise wey dey Revelation 21:4, 5 wey talk sey: ‘[God] go dry all the water wey dey comot for their eye, dem no go die again, dem no go even cry because of sey person die, trouble and pain no go dey again.  — (jw__39624, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• cold 0.76 151, hot 0.73 346, leaf 0.71 102, palm 0.71 81, bitter 0.67 36, fish 0.67 323, pour 0.66 199, cocoyam 0.66 22, smell 0.66 97

Antonyms

• cold 0.76 151, hot 0.73 346, leaf 0.71 102, palm 0.71 81, bitter 0.67 36, fish 0.67 323, pour 0.66 199, cocoyam 0.66 22, smell 0.66 97

Translations

• English: no definition