bitter

Naija

Alternative forms

• bita

Etymology

etymology:English ' bitter'.

Pronunciation

• bítà

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 16
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 544
• Frequency in raw corpus: 34
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3975

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Adjective

bitter: bitter -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Di soup dey bitter.  — (The soup is bitter.)

2. - (frequency:34)

   Bitter Leaf Water  — (bbc__20161, __no translation__)

   All dese bitter, bitter st…  — (NST_cleaned__19166, __no translation__)

3. cc (frequency:2)

   Dis vote wey people for di country post na after one long and bitter debate about whether dem go change di law.  — (bbc__42824, __no translation__)

   Di thing be say, na blue be Everton colour but Angry Birds na red, di same colour for Liverpool, wey be Everton's main and bitter rival.  — (bbc__38845, __no translation__)

4. det (frequency:2)

   Da bitter, bitter something,  — (NST_cleaned__19167, __no translation__)

   You go wash am sotay di bitter go comot so dat e no go bitter for di soup.  — (IBA_23_Bitter-Leaf-Soup_MG__15, You'll wash it till the bitter taste goes away, so it won't be bitter in the dish.)

Synonyms

• cocoyam 0.83 22, bottle 0.80 76, leaf 0.77 102, palm 0.74 81, egusi 0.73 35, plantain 0.72 42, pork 0.71 23, stockfish 0.71 15, yam 0.71 143

Antonyms

• cocoyam 0.83 22, bottle 0.80 76, leaf 0.77 102, palm 0.74 81, egusi 0.73 35, plantain 0.72 42, pork 0.71 23, stockfish 0.71 15, yam 0.71 143

Translations

• English: bitter