cram

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Naija

Alternative forms

  • drunk 0.67 19, decorate 0.66 17, concentrate 0.66 26, acknowledge 0.65 5, confluence 0.65 6, walk 0.64 44, boo 0.64 32, mamaput 0.64 6, chill 0.64 40

Etymology

Borrowed from English cram

Pronunciation

  • krâm

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 9
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 8686

The word is used more in written texts than orally.


Verb

cram: to learn off hand, memorise -- Definition in Naija?


  1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
    I don cram di book for head.  — (I have memorised the book.)
  2. aux-mark-obj (frequency:3)
    Our children like to dey cram Bible verse.  — (jw__3222, __no translation__)
    But, e dey talk sey e no good to dey cram prayer and dey repeat am.  — (jw__19596, __no translation__)

Derived forms

Synonymes

  • drunk 0.67 19, decorate 0.66 17, concentrate 0.66 26, acknowledge 0.65 5, confluence 0.65 6, walk 0.64 44, boo 0.64 32, mamaput 0.64 6, chill 0.64 40

Antonymes

  • drunk 0.67 19, decorate 0.66 17, concentrate 0.66 26, acknowledge 0.65 5, confluence 0.65 6, walk 0.64 44, boo 0.64 32, mamaput 0.64 6, chill 0.64 40

Translations

  • English: to learn off hand, memorise
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