bobo
Naija
Alternative forms
- lover 0.85 18, fiancé 0.83 8, nwa 0.79 9, boyfriend 0.79 89, grandmama 0.77 25, pale 0.77 8, princess 0.77 51, rowland 0.77 7, bae 0.77 13
Etymology
etymology: unknown (maybe from boy)
Pronunciation
- bɔ̀bɔ́
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 2
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1979
- Frequency in raw corpus: 38
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3736
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Noun
bobo: a young man -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- Di bobo fine. — (The young man is handsome.)
- - (frequency:12)
- Na my guy, na my bobo. — (LAG_28_Buying-Shawarma_DG__185, He's my guy, he's my boy.)
- My daughter dey like bobo. — (ENU_17_Buying-Grocery_DG__134, My daughter likes Bobo.)
- nmod:poss (frequency:8)
- Na my guy, na my bobo. — (NST_cleaned__23719, __no translation__)
- Dat your bobo make sense o! — (NST_cleaned__1534, __no translation__)
- case (frequency:4)
- Ariana Grande don break up wit bobo five months afta engagement — (bbc__16190, __no translation__)
- Ariana Grande don break up wit bobo five months afta engagement Social media dey carri P. Diddy and Cassie mata for head say di rapper 'don chop, clean mouth' — (bbc__16192, __no translation__)
- det (frequency:2)
- I no get any bobo. — (BEN_28_Radio-Drama-Flirting_DG__186, I do not have any guy.)
- Which bobo, which bobo? — (BEN_28_Radio-Drama-Flirting_DG__184, Which guy? Which guy?)
Derived forms
Synonyms
- lover 0.85 18, fiancé 0.83 8, nwa 0.79 9, boyfriend 0.79 89, grandmama 0.77 25, pale 0.77 8, princess 0.77 51, rowland 0.77 7, bae 0.77 13
Antonyms
- lover 0.85 18, fiancé 0.83 8, nwa 0.79 9, boyfriend 0.79 89, grandmama 0.77 25, pale 0.77 8, princess 0.77 51, rowland 0.77 7, bae 0.77 13
Translations
- English: a young man