chukuchuku

Naija

Etymology

Borrowed from English chukuchuku

Pronunciation

• tʃùkùtʃúkú

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 5
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 12217

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Noun

chukuchuku:

1. part of tree wey e be sey e sharp.

   Chukuchuku don chuk me for leg o.  — ( A thorn has pierced my leg )

   Dem come use chukuchuku do cap wey King dey wear for am.  — (jw__25661, They then used thorns to make a crown for him)

   When the seed grow for where chukuchuku dey, all the other things wey person fit like come enter, kill the seed, and e no come fit produce fruit.— Mark 4:14, 18, 19 .  — (jw__31809, __no translation__)

2. Person wey be sey e dey knack anyhow

   Ejiro na chukuchuku  —  ( Ejiro is a cassanova )

Translations

• English: thorns