chop
Naija
Alternative forms
- eat 0.80 336, drink 0.78 652, cook 0.75 389, sell 0.73 1187, taste 0.68 91, buy 0.67 1711, produce 0.65 443, piss 0.64 61, swallow 0.64 94
Etymology
Borrowed from English chop
Pronunciation
- ʧɑp
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 126
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 116
- Frequency in raw corpus: 1731
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 220
The word is used more orally than in written texts.
Verb
chop: no definition, eat -- Definition in Naija?
- - (frequency:179)
- You wan chop? — (ENU_13_School-Life_DG__34, You wanna eat?)
- E go see chop. — (ABJ_GWA_04_Tins-Don-Hard-For-Everywhere_DG__95, It will have to eat.)
- obj (frequency:120)
- Una wan chop am, — (LAG_38_Elections_DG__9, You want to embezzle it ?)
- Chop better food. — (ENU_13_School-Life_DG__52, Eat good food!)
- mark (frequency:49)
- Pipo wey come vote buy food to chop — (bbc__81656, __no translation__)
- No chance to use di animals for chop — (bbc__75148, __no translation__)
- mark-obj (frequency:43)
- No be to chop am? — (KAD_14_Stephen-Silas-Betting_DG__137, Isn't it to eat it ?)
- E dey beg for chop money. — (JOS_25_Boko-Haram_M__38, He was begging for money to eat.)
- aux (frequency:38)
- Make you keep dey chop. — (ENU_12_Social-Life_DG__142, Go on eating it !)
- You ne~, you never chop? — (JOS_32_School-And-Party-Politics_DG__46, You have not... you have not eaten ?)
- obl:arg (frequency:32)
- De no dey see food chop for house, abi wetin? — (WAZK_05_Reincarnation_DG__38, They don't have food to eat in their house or what ?)
- We go chop am, chop with pepper, better pepper. — (NST_cleaned__4363, __no translation__)
- aux-obj (frequency:28)
- Who dey chop thirty times? — (deuber__3506, __no translation__)
- No be pastor dey chop tithe. — (BEN_15c_Theology-Church-Finances_DG__43, The Pastor is not the one who spends the money gathered from tithe as he likes.)
- nsubj (frequency:13)
- Na how we chop, chop! — (NST_cleaned__38616, __no translation__)
- Aha she chop, clean mouth. — (NST_cleaned__26052, __no translation__)
- conj (frequency:11)
- Dia wan na shrine for 11 royal families for Bafut, deh seize chop and mimbo. — (bbc__75119, __no translation__)
- And e still make sure sey Ruth see food chop and see water drink like im worker. — (jw__40522, __no translation__)
- advcl (frequency:11)
- And mey I go chop small. — (JOS_02_Hair-And-Movies_DG__188, and let me go and eat a little.)
- Once dis parti win, dem wan chop alone — (bbc__96996, __no translation__)
- obl:mod (frequency:11)
- no let our work chop all our time — (jw__48787, __no translation__)
- We never see anything chop since yesterday morning. — (bbc__3238, __no translation__)
- advmod (frequency:9)
- I go come chop now, — (JOS_21_Marriage-Talk-With-Oscar-1_DG__50, I'll come and eat.)
- Even chop, I didn't chop. — (LAG_08_Austin-And-Donald_DG__137, Even to eat, I didn't eat.)
- cc-obj (frequency:9)
- Kuku sef, them drink water for small pot and chop cola. — (katakata__794, __no translation__)
- But some sabi pipo tink say e still dey important to live healthy life and chop beta food plus to exercise. — (bbc__23513, __no translation__)
- cc (frequency:8)
- Nnadi alone dey cook and chop — (katakata__435, __no translation__)
- If pepper rest for pocket, pipo go buy ram, kill and chop. — (bbc__57737, __no translation__)
- dep-obj (frequency:5)
- If to sey na like kongo of one garri you get, you chop am. — (IBA_16_Drivers_DG__144, If it is like a kongo of garri you get, you eat it.)
- Another person wey e name na James, tell BBC say: I don try chop cockroach before. — (bbc__15762, __no translation__)
Derived forms
Synonymes
- eat 0.80 336, drink 0.78 652, cook 0.75 389, sell 0.73 1187, taste 0.68 91, buy 0.67 1711, produce 0.65 443, piss 0.64 61, swallow 0.64 94
Antonymes
- eat 0.80 336, drink 0.78 652, cook 0.75 389, sell 0.73 1187, taste 0.68 91, buy 0.67 1711, produce 0.65 443, piss 0.64 61, swallow 0.64 94
Translations
- English: no definition, eat