Difference between revisions of "bulala"

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===Verb===
 
===Verb===
 
#Make person take tiny stick rope pepper anoder person or ting.
 
#Make person take tiny stick rope pepper anoder person or ting.
:*{{ux|dv|I go '''bulala''' you o.|(Egbokhare_22, I am going to flog the hell out of you!)}}
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#:{{ux|dv|I go '''bulala''' you o.|(Egbokhare_22, I am going to flog the hell out of you!)}}
 
#Sey man sabi sleep with woman   
 
#Sey man sabi sleep with woman   
:*{{ux|dv|I go '''bulala''' you o. |(Egbokhare_2I will whip you with a horsewhip.)}}
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#:{{ux|dv|I go '''bulala''' you o. |(Egbokhare_2I will whip you with a horsewhip.)}}
  
 
====Derived forms====
 
====Derived forms====

Revision as of 12:50, 25 November 2020

Naija

Etymology

From: Hausa "bulala" for cane

Pronunciation

  • bùlálà

Play

Frequency

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

Noun

Tiny stick or rope wey long

As teacher enter class with bulala everybody couple.  — (NSC_Abonyi_2020, When the teacher walked into the classroom brandishing a cane the students behaved themselves.)

Synonyms

Translations

  • English: horsewhip, cane

Verb

  1. Make person take tiny stick rope pepper anoder person or ting.
    I go bulala you o.  — (Egbokhare_22, I am going to flog the hell out of you!)
  2. Sey man sabi sleep with woman
    I go bulala you o.  — (Egbokhare_2I will whip you with a horsewhip.)

Derived forms

Synonyms

Antonyms

Translations

  • English: to flog, to