squeeze
Naija
Alternative forms
- frown 0.77 29, temptation 0.61 47, controversy 0.57 20, prosecution 0.53 57, hardship 0.52 21, problem-dem 0.51 17, confusion 0.50 89, try-try 0.50 6, lecturer-dem 0.50 5
Etymology
Borrowed from English squeeze
Pronunciation
- skwiz
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 4006
- Frequency in raw corpus: 47
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3279
The word is used more in written texts than orally.
Verb
squeeze: no definition -- Definition in Naija?
- aux-compound:svc-nsubj (frequency:4)
- Fans hail Iwobi performance as Everton lose for EPL Iwobi transfer from Arsenal make Nigerians squeeze face — (bbc__48673, __no translation__)
- Di Nigeria Labour Congress president come squeeze face talk say make dem deal well well with any officer wey be thiefi-thiefi jakoliko. — (deuber__79, __no translation__)
- cc-obj (frequency:2)
- as im grab and squeeze di back of my hand, e pay for my car and come whisper inside my ear 'No tell anybodi wetin happen, your manager, your agent.' — (bbc__2395, __no translation__)
- She say:As soon as dey snap di photo, e drop im hands from my waist go down to my buttock and squeeze am, na im make you see say for di picture my mouth dey wide open. — (bbc__89126, __no translation__)
Derived forms
Synonymes
- frown 0.77 29, temptation 0.61 47, controversy 0.57 20, prosecution 0.53 57, hardship 0.52 21, problem-dem 0.51 17, confusion 0.50 89, try-try 0.50 6, lecturer-dem 0.50 5
Antonymes
- frown 0.77 29, temptation 0.61 47, controversy 0.57 20, prosecution 0.53 57, hardship 0.52 21, problem-dem 0.51 17, confusion 0.50 89, try-try 0.50 6, lecturer-dem 0.50 5
Translations
- English: no definition