blend
Naija
Alternative forms
- balanced 0.73 7, colourful 0.72 11, vitamins 0.71 5, wishes 0.70 8, eating 0.70 18, comb 0.70 10, migos 0.70 12, arinze 0.69 19, risky 0.69 20
Etymology
etymology:English ' blend'
Pronunciation
- blɛ̂nd
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 7
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 967
- Frequency in raw corpus: 24
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 4861
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Verb
blend: to belong/be initiated to a group (cult group), to fit in -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- I talk am sey e don go blend naim make am dey do gragra. E go blend with them. — (I said it that e has joined a secret cult that's why he is proving stubborn. He/she will fit in with them.)
- - (frequency:3)
- So I con dey like blend, blend, blend, blend. — (KAD_13_Entering-University_MG__78, So I was trying to blend in, blend in, blend in, blend in.)
- But you know sey e no, e no, e no blend, e no blend. — (JOS_06_Ear-Piercing_DG__55, But you know that it doesn't...it doesn't...it doesn't fit...it doesn't fit.)
- obl:arg (frequency:2)
- Na blend of di old and di young. — (bbc__31962, __no translation__)
- That time, I learn from the way Brother Franz take blend with the people for the area. — (jw__3167, __no translation__)
- obj-obl:arg (frequency:2)
- e dey easy for person to take blend history wit any oder course. — (NST_cleaned__34117, __no translation__)
- So dat one... e dey easy for person to take blend history wit any oder course. — (WAZA_10_Bluetooth-Lifestory_MG__34, So that one... it's easy to blend history with other courses.)
Derived forms
Synonymes
- balanced 0.73 7, colourful 0.72 11, vitamins 0.71 5, wishes 0.70 8, eating 0.70 18, comb 0.70 10, migos 0.70 12, arinze 0.69 19, risky 0.69 20
Antonymes
- balanced 0.73 7, colourful 0.72 11, vitamins 0.71 5, wishes 0.70 8, eating 0.70 18, comb 0.70 10, migos 0.70 12, arinze 0.69 19, risky 0.69 20
Translations
- English: to belong/be initiated to a group (cult group), to fit in