deck

Naija

Etymology

From English: deck

Pronunciation

• dɛ̂k

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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: 17356

Verb

Make person dress well.

• I don deck for di marriage.  — (Egbokhare_2020, I am dressed for the marriage.)

Transitive

1. Make person punch anoder person.

   • If you find my trouble I go deck you.  — (Egbokhare_2020, If you provoke me, I will punch.)

2. Make person sitdon dey flenjo.

   • Bros just deck for chair dey drink.  — (Egbokhare_2020, He relaxed on the chair drinking.)

Synonyms

• kakup, flex, baff up

Translations

• English: to dress, punch, relax