babe
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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?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- I dey go see my babe for hostel. — (I am going to see my girlfriend in the hostel.)
- - (frequency:73)
- Babe! — (ENU_23_Chizom-Talk_DG__1, Babe !)
- Babe? — (IBA_10_Recession_DG__147, Is she a babe ?)
- 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.)
- 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__)
- 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?)
- advmod (frequency:4)
- No babe. — (IBA_07_Na-Love_DG__280, No, babe.)
- No o babe. — (NST_cleaned__35389, __no translation__)
- discourse (frequency:4)
- Eh babe! — (ABJ_INF_08_Impatience_DG__174, Eh! Baby!)
- Nna, babe! — (ENU_13_School-Life_DG__89, Nah, babe!)
- 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 ?)
- 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__)
- 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.)
Derived forms
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