amebo

Naija

Alternate form

• amibo

Etymology

From: Yoruba a character in Village Headmaster, a Soap Opera.

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)

2. Na make person dey gossip

   • Dem siddon do amebo tire.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2020. They sat and had enough gossip.)
   • I beg I no wan talk because if I mistake mention name, I don do amebo be dat  — (NSC_Legbeti_2020, I wont dare call names otherwise, I will be spreading gossip)
   • E go turn your phone into amebo wey dem fit use track you and come tiff everytin for am.  — (bbc__2461, __no translation__)

Synonyms

aproko

Translations

• English: a gossip, idle talk