damn

Naija

Alternative forms

• 24k 0.89 6, shay 0.89 5, patoranking 0.89 12, travis 0.89 9, kendrick 0.89 27, kesh 0.89 7, z 0.88 21, arg 0.88 5, clive 0.88 10

Etymology

Borrowed from English damn

Pronunciation

• dâm

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 2
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 18018

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Verb

damn: to shun, to snub, tell someone off. -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Musa dam di guy o.  — (Musa snubbed the guy.)

Synonymes

• 24k 0.89 6, shay 0.89 5, patoranking 0.89 12, travis 0.89 9, kendrick 0.89 27, kesh 0.89 7, z 0.88 21, arg 0.88 5, clive 0.88 10

Antonymes

• 24k 0.89 6, shay 0.89 5, patoranking 0.89 12, travis 0.89 9, kendrick 0.89 27, kesh 0.89 7, z 0.88 21, arg 0.88 5, clive 0.88 10

Translations

• English: to shun, to snub, tell someone off.