bounce

Naija

Alternative forms

• kalinic 0.68 8, sender 0.62 5, esperance 0.60 18, zidane 0.60 76, safely 0.57 25, zinedine 0.56 39, knock 0.55 85, madrid 0.55 515, clasico 0.54 5

Etymology

etymology:English ' bounce'.

Pronunciation

• báùns

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 28
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 4461

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Verb

bounce: to walk with confidence -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   E dey bounce like sey im don win jackpot.  — (He is walking with confidence as if he won a jackpot.)

2. - (frequency:2)

   For February, e bin look like e go step down but oga Al-Bashir call for state of emergency as e say di protesters make sense but na only elections go fit bounce am.  — (bbc__50152, __no translation__)

   Aboudi Onguene weh e di play for CSKA Russia open door for mbunya for 13' minute as e comet laik lighten kick straight for goalkeeper but de ball bounce back for e foot and e score as Enganamouit service e ball.  — (bbc__11148, __no translation__)

3. advmod-aux-nsubj (frequency:2)

   Ehen if you push person to di wall, di person definitely go still bounce back, start to pursue you.  — (NST_cleaned__31754, __no translation__)

   Afta di defeat, di president tweet say di mata touch am wella but say im believe say Ghana Black Stars go bounce back.  — (bbc__12863, __no translation__)

4. aux-compound:svc-nsubj-obj (frequency:2)

   Why US dey bounce Ghanaians visa more times  — (bbc__100495, __no translation__)

   Plenti of di pipo wey follow come na pikin and di wahala be say dem dey bounce dem say dem no get official papers.  — (bbc__81964, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• kalinic 0.68 8, sender 0.62 5, esperance 0.60 18, zidane 0.60 76, safely 0.57 25, zinedine 0.56 39, knock 0.55 85, madrid 0.55 515, clasico 0.54 5

Antonyms

• kalinic 0.68 8, sender 0.62 5, esperance 0.60 18, zidane 0.60 76, safely 0.57 25, zinedine 0.56 39, knock 0.55 85, madrid 0.55 515, clasico 0.54 5

Translations

• English: to walk with confidence