backyard

Naija

Etymology

From: English backyard

Pronunciation

• bàkíjâd

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2604
• Frequency in raw corpus: 20
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 5363

Definition

Area wey dey back of house.

Noun

• Di area wey dey behind the house.

• Di ball fall go backyard.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2020. The ball fell towards the back of the house.)
• Or maybe na your backyard, you for cut am.  — (NST, 38102. Did you get it from the back of your house?)

• When e be sey something dey local, small, or below person level

• I no wan work for backyard restaurant.Chuy!  — (Deuber, 3559. my level is above working at a local or small restaurant. )
• Na my company you dey call backyard restaurant?  — (Deuber, 3560. Is it my company you are referring to as local?)

• Where person get power abi advantage.

• Cameroon President Paul Biya change inside e own backyard as e put new civil cabinet director and assistant and ministers dem.  — (BBC,79926. President Paul Biya changed members of his immediate cabinet. )
• If you dey work for technology field, to live for Yaba go favor you die because your office fit even dey your backyard.  — (If you work in the field of technology, living in Yaba will be a big advantage as you can just find you live close to your workplace since Yaba is the center of technological activities)

• Woman yansh wey big wella.

• Dat chick get better backyard o.  — (Egbokhare, 2020. That girl has big buttocks.)
• O boy, dat babe backyard na die!  — (NSC_Legbeti_2020. Boy, that girl has large buttocks)

Synonyms

• Bakassi, nyash, ikebe, backside

Antonyms

• Frontage

Translations

• English: Area behind the house, something small or local, one's area of control or advantage, a woman's buttocks