boom

Naija

Alternative forms

• emissions 0.83 8, cancers 0.82 6, gambling 0.81 7, seeds 0.81 13, insecticides 0.81 8, retail 0.80 15, tullow 0.79 5, poultry 0.78 22, grains 0.78 10

Etymology

etymology:English ' boom' .English ' boom'

Pronunciation

• bûm

Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 12
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 7251

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Noun

boom: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. compound-det (frequency:2)

   Dis bitcoin boom don make other online money begin show face.  — (bbc__40359, __no translation__)

   Na dat big mistake wey we do dat time wey turn di oil boom to oil doom uh still dey make our equation on top food matter no balance for scale even till now.  — (deuber__5254, __no translation__)

Derived forms

• oil boom

1. Dis one mean say di new oil boom wey Libya dey experience dey face uncertainty again.  — (bbc__42230, __no translation__)

   If we look di matter well well, we go see say dat oil money awuf tabi oil boom, e do our country good and bad.  — (deuber__5241, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• emissions 0.83 8, cancers 0.82 6, gambling 0.81 7, seeds 0.81 13, insecticides 0.81 8, retail 0.80 15, tullow 0.79 5, poultry 0.78 22, grains 0.78 10

Antonyms

• emissions 0.83 8, cancers 0.82 6, gambling 0.81 7, seeds 0.81 13, insecticides 0.81 8, retail 0.80 15, tullow 0.79 5, poultry 0.78 22, grains 0.78 10

Translations

• English: no definition

Verb

boom: to smell foul, to be lively/successful -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Di room dey boom.  — (The room is smelling.)

   1. Di party dey boom 2. Im business dey boom  — (1. The party is lively. 2. His is successful.)

2. aux-nsubj (frequency:2)

   Some people just want make business boom.  — (bbc__91375, __no translation__)

   And so BBC come enta Sheka market for Kano state north west Nigeria to see how dey business dey boom.  — (bbc__15223, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• emissions 0.83 8, cancers 0.82 6, gambling 0.81 7, seeds 0.81 13, insecticides 0.81 8, retail 0.80 15, tullow 0.79 5, poultry 0.78 22, grains 0.78 10

Antonyms

• emissions 0.83 8, cancers 0.82 6, gambling 0.81 7, seeds 0.81 13, insecticides 0.81 8, retail 0.80 15, tullow 0.79 5, poultry 0.78 22, grains 0.78 10

Translations

• English: to smell foul, to be lively/successful