bomaboy
Naija
Etymology
From English: returnees from Burma war
Pronunciation
- bɔ́màbɔ́ì
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
Translations
- English: thug, ruffians