chick

Naija

Etymology

From: English chick

Pronunciation

• tʃîk

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 6
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1027
• Frequency in raw corpus: 8
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 8760

Noun

1. Na fowl wey e never tay e comot for egg.

• E con talk sey since di egg wey de don ready boil go fit hatch chick come outside, den beans wey de don cook go fit grow anoder one come outside.  — (BEN_36_Clever-Girl_MG__48, He reasoned that if a boiled egg can still hatch a chick then too cooked bean can bring out a raw one as well.)

1. Na fine girl.

I dey go see my chick for hostel.  — (Egbokhare_2021, I am going to visit my girlfriend in her hostel.)

• Any guy wey dey happen, any musician, even if di chick join you with musician, just know sey dat guy go collect, open your arm collect dat chick.  — (KAD_18_My-Gunners-The-Musician_DG__82, Be sure that a influential guy or musician can easily steal your girlfriend from you even if she is on the same band as you with the musician.)

Synonyms

• chikala, chickito, shenani, babe

Antonyms

• guy

Translations

• English: chick (hen), chick (human)