bulala

Naija

Etymology

From: Hausa "bulala" for cane

Pronunciation

• bùlálà

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Frequency

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

Tiny stick or rope

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

• koboko

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!)

1. Sey man sabi sleep with woman

• I go bulala you o.  — (Egbokhare_2I will whip you with a horsewhip.)

Translations

• English: to flog, to