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==Naija== | ==Naija== | ||
===Etymology=== | ===Etymology=== | ||
| − | From: Urhobo ''avwebọ'' (or amebọ as Yoruba people dey call am, after de borrow am.) | + | From: Urhobo ''avwebọ'' (or amebọ as Yoruba people dey call am, after de borrow am come deir language.) |
===Pronunciation=== | ===Pronunciation=== | ||
Revision as of 00:34, 18 July 2021
Naija
Etymology
From: Urhobo avwebọ (or amebọ as Yoruba people dey call am, after de borrow am come deir language.)
Pronunciation
- ámԑ̀bɔ́
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.
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 3672
- Frequency in raw corpus: 23
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 4990
Noun
- 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
Translations
- English: a gossip, idle talk