baddest

Naija

Alternative forms

• performer 0.84 6, murphy 0.83 9, greene 0.82 5, snoop 0.82 5, irep 0.82 5, nnedi 0.82 7, bollywood 0.81 18, ye 0.80 26, laoye 0.80 5

Etymology

etymology:English (bad)

Pronunciation

• bádɛ́s

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 2
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 2373
• Frequency in raw corpus: 4
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 12505

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Adjective

baddest: Slang: to be smart -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   You na baddest  — (You are smart.)

2. - (frequency:2)

   Even if you no know di film, you for don hear 007. Di guy be one baddest actor wey dey act as correct spy for di world.  — (bbc__47534, __no translation__)

   When I bin dey for NYSC camp, my crew dey on top di codeine diet constant because na how to show say you be di baddest boy.  — (bbc__99720, __no translation__)

3. case-det (frequency:2)

   East Area wey de don talk sey, di report so, na im, don become di most baddest of di baddest inside dis one wey don happen.  — (NST_cleaned__41673, __no translation__)

   Meanwhile, different, different kain talk don begin to dey come out on top of dis avian flu as dem talk sey... one of dem say de don discover am inside dis Mashonaland em... eh... East Area wey de don talk sey, di report so, na im, don become di most baddest of di baddest inside dis one wey don happen.  — (WAZA_09_Tv-News_MG__23, Meanwhile, so many different reports have been coming out about this Avian Flu and it was reported that... one of the reports said it was discovered in Mashonaland um... uh... East Area, where it has been said that the report has become the most devastating.)

4. amod-det-nmod (frequency:2)

   East Area wey de don talk sey, di report so, na im, don become di most baddest of di baddest inside dis one wey don happen.  — (NST_cleaned__41673, __no translation__)

   Meanwhile, different, different kain talk don begin to dey come out on top of dis avian flu as dem talk sey... one of dem say de don discover am inside dis Mashonaland em... eh... East Area wey de don talk sey, di report so, na im, don become di most baddest of di baddest inside dis one wey don happen.  — (WAZA_09_Tv-News_MG__23, Meanwhile, so many different reports have been coming out about this Avian Flu and it was reported that... one of the reports said it was discovered in Mashonaland um... uh... East Area, where it has been said that the report has become the most devastating.)

Synonyms

• performer 0.84 6, murphy 0.83 9, greene 0.82 5, snoop 0.82 5, irep 0.82 5, nnedi 0.82 7, bollywood 0.81 18, ye 0.80 26, laoye 0.80 5

Antonyms

• performer 0.84 6, murphy 0.83 9, greene 0.82 5, snoop 0.82 5, irep 0.82 5, nnedi 0.82 7, bollywood 0.81 18, ye 0.80 26, laoye 0.80 5

Translations

• English: Slang: to be smart