amebo

Naija

Etymology

From: Urhobo avwebọ (or amebọ as pronounced by the Yorubas, after adopting it.)

Usage

• Na favorite wife for a polygamous home in Urhobo land and na she dey gossip everyting wey dey happen for house give de husband.

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

1. • 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