mess
Naija
Etymology
From: English mess
Pronunciation
- mɛ́s
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2735
- Frequency in raw corpus: 41
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3568
Definition
Make person pollute de air.
Verb
- Make person spoil air.
- I wan mess. — (Egbokhare 2020, I want to fart.)
- After she use am during working hours when she dey deliver justice for di court, den she go empty di content so say e n go mess up en office. — (bbc__13219, __no translation__)
- Make person dey misbehave.
- Dose guys just dey mess up. — (JOS_24_Football_M__43, Those guys are just misbehaving.)
- I send dat bae tfare o, and she still mess up, she no con show at all. — (NSC_Shulammite 2020, I sent her transportation fare and she eventually disappointed me by not showing up.)
Related forms
Synonyms
fuckup, shit, fallhand,messy messy
Antonyms
Translations
English: fart, misbehave