boy

Naija

Alternative forms

• girl 0.86 1023, woman 0.75 2792, guy 0.71 746, baby 0.71 257, man 0.70 4389, sister 0.68 740, brother 0.67 925, mary 0.64 355, pickin 0.64 840

Etymology

Borrowed from English boy

Pronunciation

• bɔɪ

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 69
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 188
• Frequency in raw corpus: 608
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 560

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

boy: no definition, househelp -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:179)

   Oh boy,  — (NST_cleaned__2351, __no translation__)

   Oh boy.  — (NST_cleaned__2353, __no translation__)

2. det (frequency:139)

   dis boy.  — (deuber__2103, __no translation__)

   Dat boy spoil…  — (ONI_15_Gossiping_DG__179, That boy spoilt...)

3. amod (frequency:46)

   Bad boy!  — (ENU_23_Chizom-Talk_DG__23, Bad boy.)

   Lazy boy.  — (IBA_22_School-Children_DG__30, Lazy boy !)

4. amod-det (frequency:36)

   one small boy.  — (NST_cleaned__41829, __no translation__)

   Na the boy own?  — (jw__49198, __no translation__)

5. case-det (frequency:19)

   for di boy.  — (NST_cleaned__39876, __no translation__)

   How about di boy?  — (KAD_31_Girls-Education_M__77, How about the boy ?)

6. nmod (frequency:11)

   Omo dat one na idiot boy.  — (NST_cleaned__21763, __no translation__)

   happen last week?one boy like dat.  — (deuber__2006, __no translation__)

7. conj (frequency:11)

   Boy and girl  — (bbc__29122, __no translation__)

   I dey cari my albinism wit swag' 'Wen I find out say I no be boy' or girl, shock catch me'  — (bbc__8917, __no translation__)

8. conj-det (frequency:7)

   One boy and two girls.  — (jw__35189, __no translation__)

   Dis time na one boy and one girl get di disease;  — (bbc__42704, __no translation__)

9. case (frequency:5)

   dem dey look for boy by all means  — (deuber__815, __no translation__)

   all dis boy wey be say-- okay like dis O.P.C. O.P.C. C09 60 people.  — (deuber__2841, __no translation__)

10. det-nmod (frequency:5)

    Na so another Fulani boy use revenge kill one 25-year-old woman.  — (bbc__71882, __no translation__)

    Okonkwo dey let the boy them know say im mind dey sweet when them come sidon with am for im obi.  — (katakata__480, __no translation__)

11. dep-det (frequency:3)

    Dat boy wey no…  — (IBA_22_School-Children_DG__18, That boy that does not...)

    And I don tell her... ask am (di girl) sey ah wetin e dey tell dis boy X?  — (ONI_27_A-Hotelier-Interview_MG__62, And I told her... asked her ah, what is she telling this boy X...?)

12. det-flat (frequency:3)

    Con see di boy XX.  — (ENU_20_Relationship-With-Women_DG__138, Then if you see the boy...)

    ask am sey ah wetin e dey tell dis boy X?  — (NST_cleaned__33860, __no translation__)

13. dep (frequency:2)

    Na boy e born, and nothing happen to am.  — (jw__31450, __no translation__)

    Na boy e go born, make you name am Jesus, because na im go save im people from all their sin.”— Matthew 1:20, 21 .  — (jw__21596, __no translation__)

14. cc-det (frequency:2)

    One day, I dey work, one girl wit one boy come, and say auntie, see!  — (ONI_27_A-Hotelier-Interview_MG__43, One day, I was at work when a girl came with a boy, and said, auntie, look!)

    Reyes dey leave im wife wey im marry for June 2017, Noelia Lopez and three pikin dem, two girls and one boy.  — (bbc__85617, __no translation__)

15. dep-nmod (frequency:2)

    I be Lesbian, but I also be pesin’ Na boy' dem first raise me  — (bbc__8903, __no translation__)

    Ghana boy who dey imitate sound of over 50 animals want enter Guinness Book of Records  — (bbc__53926, __no translation__)

Derived forms

• area boy

1. But all dose area boy, dey con carry cutlass, con dey gada sey if NEPA climb dis pole, sey e wan cut dis light, dat cutlass, na im neck o.  — (LAG_09_Country-Wahala_DG__2, But those area boys, they will then carry cultlasses and be assembling that if NEPA staff member climbs this pole, that he wants to disconnect the light, that cultlass, is for his neck.)

   Other Di market wey dem scata Police for Lagos don arrest five pipo, afta clash between one Hausa scavenger wey dey pick tins and one Yoruba area boy for Ilepo market, south west Nigeria almost turn tribal war.  — (bbc__79428, __no translation__)

• baby boy

1. Reuters Meghan Markle don born baby boy for Prince Harry.  — (bbc__85296, __no translation__)

   Afta di feem reign, kontri pipo begin call dis Honda Accord model baby boy.  — (bbc__94851, __no translation__)

• boy name

1. The boy name na Michael.  — (jw__23910, __no translation__)

   The boy name na Ikemefuna.  — (katakata__727, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• girl 0.86 1023, woman 0.75 2792, guy 0.71 746, baby 0.71 257, man 0.70 4389, sister 0.68 740, brother 0.67 925, mary 0.64 355, pickin 0.64 840

Antonyms

• girl 0.86 1023, woman 0.75 2792, guy 0.71 746, baby 0.71 257, man 0.70 4389, sister 0.68 740, brother 0.67 925, mary 0.64 355, pickin 0.64 840

Translations

• English: no definition, househelp