cook

Naija

Etymology

From: English cook

Pronunciation

• kûk

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 70
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 186
• Frequency in raw corpus: 341
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 893

Noun

• Na person wey dey prepare food.

• Make una no turn me to una cook for dis house.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. I will not become a cook for anybody in this house.)
• All di levels wey I get na because na me be de cook for governor.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. The fact that I am the governor's cook has granted me privileges)
• She do cook, waitress, sex-worker, dancer, actor, journalist, singer and teacher work.  — (bbc__88556. She is a cook, a waitress, a dancer, an actor, a journalist, a singer and a teacher.)
• Life tire di cook dem.  — (bbc__63868. The cooks are frustrated)

Translations

• English: a cook

Verb

• Na make person prepare food.

• You sabi cook?  — (ABJ_GWA_05_Tailoring_DG__32, Do you know how to cook?)
• Make e say e dey teach my wife how to cook.  — (KAD_06_Cooking_DG__67, So that she will say she is teaching my wife how to cook.)
• Di soup wey I like to cook, na im be banga soup.  — (BEN_08_Egusi-And-Banga-Soup_MG__45, The soup that I like to cook, is banga.)
• You know how de take dey cook di soup?  — (ABJ_GWA_02_Market-Food-Church_DG__54, Do you know how they prepare the dish?)
• When dem come back, na di woman go cook.  — (BEN_01_Woman-Life-No-Easy_M__25. When they come back home, it's the woman who will cook.)
• E no be everyting your wife fit cook.  — (KAD_06_Cooking_DG__56, It's not everything your wife can cook.)
• So wetin you sabi cook well?  — (ENU_18_Onugbu-Soup_DG__1. So what do you know how to cook well?)

• Na make person do juju to make am strong.

  Dem don cook de moto park chairman done, gun no fit enter im body.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. The park chairman has been fortified with charms and no bullet can enter his body.)

  I wan go cook myself for baba place first before I enter politics for dis country.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2020. I want to get the herbalist to fortify me first before I go into politics in this country.)

Serial Verb

• We cook, we eat.  — (NST_cleaned__30704. We cook and eat.)
• I cook, I give dem,  — (NST_cleaned__16845. I cooked and shared.)
• Dey cook, dey give am.  — (ONI_15_Gossiping_DG__177. They Cooked and shared.)

Translations

• English: cooking, charm