babe

Naija

Alternative forms

• omo 0.73 129, bros 0.71 72, broder 0.71 138, aunty 0.70 60, breasts 0.70 15, bobo 0.69 53, padi 0.69 60, landlord 0.69 97, mumsy 0.69 44

Etymology

etymology:English

Pronunciation

• bêb

Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 45
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 263
• Frequency in raw corpus: 141
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1662

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

babe: Slang: girlfriend -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   I dey go see my babe for hostel.  — (I am going to see my girlfriend in the hostel.)

2. - (frequency:73)

   Babe!  — (ENU_23_Chizom-Talk_DG__1, Babe !)

   Babe?  — (IBA_10_Recession_DG__147, Is she a babe ?)

3. det (frequency:17)

   See one babe,  — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__218, See a girl.)

   I see one babe now.  — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__132, I saw a girl.)

4. nmod:poss (frequency:10)

   E be like sey im go see im babe.  — (NST_cleaned__27343, __no translation__)

   Oga, eh my babe wey, my babe come.  — (NST_cleaned__11326, __no translation__)

5. acl:relcl (frequency:7)

   And guy dey also find babe wey fine,  — (BEN_30_Husband-Criteria_DG__143, And the guy is also looking for a girl that is fine.)

   You no get babe wen you go bring come?  — (BEN_28_Radio-Drama-Flirting_DG__16, You do not have a girlfriend that you will bring?)

6. advmod (frequency:4)

   No babe.  — (IBA_07_Na-Love_DG__280, No, babe.)

   No o babe.  — (NST_cleaned__35389, __no translation__)

7. discourse (frequency:4)

   Eh babe!  — (ABJ_INF_08_Impatience_DG__174, Eh! Baby!)

   Nna, babe!  — (ENU_13_School-Life_DG__89, Nah, babe!)

8. cc-nmod:poss (frequency:3)

   Our mate, or your babe for class.  — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__124, Our mate or your girlfriend in the class ?)

   Our mate, or your babe for class?  — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__126, Our mate or your girlfriend in class ?)

9. case (frequency:2)

   Ah fair o babe.  — (JOS_02_Hair-And-Movies_DG__205, Ah ! Fair o, babe.)

   Naim me con tell her sey babe, which level you dey now,  — (NST_cleaned__42455, __no translation__)

10. case-det (frequency:2)

    I dance to one babe like dis.  — (KAD_29_Boys-Talk_DG__77, I danced with one babe like this.)

    Base on sey I dey spend for di babe.  — (ENU_20_Relationship-With-Women_DG__144, Because I spend on the girl.)

Synonyms

• omo 0.73 129, bros 0.71 72, broder 0.71 138, aunty 0.70 60, breasts 0.70 15, bobo 0.69 53, padi 0.69 60, landlord 0.69 97, mumsy 0.69 44

Antonyms

• omo 0.73 129, bros 0.71 72, broder 0.71 138, aunty 0.70 60, breasts 0.70 15, bobo 0.69 53, padi 0.69 60, landlord 0.69 97, mumsy 0.69 44

Translations

• English: Slang: girlfriend