ashawo

Naija

Etymology

From: Yoruba ase (person) + owo (money)

Pronunciation

• àʃáwó

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 28
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 4504

Noun

Man or woman wey im talent na to dey doke for money.

1. E be ashawo.  — (Egbokhare_2020, She is a prostitute.)

   Hai from dat side, dem dey call me papa ashawo.  — (ONI_04_Women_M__48, Hey ! from that side they call me ' father of prostitutes'.)

   Dem build am for area wia ashawo dey patrol wella.  — (bbc__33343, It was built in an area where prostitute reside.)

Derived forms

• ashi

Synonyms

• olosho

Translations

• English: prostitute