cheap

Naija

Alternative forms

• chip

Etymology

From: English cheap

Pronunciation

• tʃîp

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 13
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 614
• Frequency in raw corpus: 120
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1851

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Adjective

cheap: inexpensive, low price -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Cheap drink.  — (An inexpensive drink.)

2. - (frequency:80)

   Is chea-, is cheap.  — (NST_cleaned__42797, __no translation__)

   E no go come cheap.  — (bbc__44971, __no translation__)

3. advmod (frequency:12)

   dey very cheap.  — (NST_cleaned__37252, __no translation__)

   Very, very cheap.  — (JOS_19_Bukuru_MG__52, Really, really cheap.)

4. conj (frequency:5)

   Despite all this, many pipo still dey buy am because e dey cheap and e full everiwhere.  — (bbc__30166, __no translation__)

   Ms Kunda say Di media don make di sexiness of woman to dey cheap and as feminist I wan celebrate am.  — (bbc__68932, __no translation__)

5. nsubj (frequency:2)

   di thing cheap.  — (deuber__1312, __no translation__)

   She say postinor and white quinine na di two popular melecine women dey buy pass wen dem need contraception sake of say dem cheap.  — (bbc__88997, __no translation__)

6. advmod:emph (frequency:2)

   e be like say di thing cheap o.  — (deuber__5923, __no translation__)

   Weda na for social media dem see car or na from gist, Sidiku dey slowly add to di cars wey im get and no be say e dey cheap o.  — (bbc__39173, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• cost 0.79 453, low 0.77 197, healthy 0.75 80, cheaper 0.70 10, scarce 0.68 66, rice 0.68 419, steady 0.68 54, import 0.66 132, electricity 0.64 168

Antonyms

• cost 0.79 453, low 0.77 197, healthy 0.75 80, cheaper 0.70 10, scarce 0.68 66, rice 0.68 419, steady 0.68 54, import 0.66 132, electricity 0.64 168

Translations

• English: inexpensive, low price