bomaboy
Naija
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Etymology
etymology:English 'returnees from Burma war'
Pronunciation
- bɔ́màbɔ́ì
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- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
- Frequency in raw corpus: 0
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: inf
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Noun
bomaboy: a hoodlum, ruffian, rascal -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- Im pikin don become bomaboy. — (His/her child is now a ruffian.)
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- English: a hoodlum, ruffian, rascal