bomaboy

Naija

Etymology

From English: 'returnees from Burma war'

Pronunciation

• bɔ́màbɔ́ì

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 0
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: inf

Noun

Person wey rugged wey be jagunda.

• Im pikin don become bomaboy.  — (His/her child is nows a ruffian.)
• Children for Yaba garage ehn, na bomaboys plenty for deir midst.  — ( NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, Majority of the children found at Yaba motor park are thugs. )

Synonyms

• agbero

Translations

• English: thug, ruffians