demo
Naija
Alternative forms
- bog 0.70 19, demonstrators 0.69 14, dating 0.66 25, armah 0.66 6, shoppers 0.66 5, mp 0.66 54, toke 0.66 7, skip 0.65 139, osman 0.65 10
Etymology
from: English demonstration
Pronunciation
- dɛ̀mó
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
- Frequency in raw corpus: 4
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 12985
Definition
Make person dey showoff.
Verb
- Make sombody dey form one kain one kain for anoder person.
- E begin dey demo for di palace. — (Egbokhare _2020_ He/she started acting up in the place.)
- Na from day one dem don dey demo for us for that hostel, but as per sharp guys na, we no send dem. — (NSC_Shulammite_2020_From the very beginning, they've been showing off in that hostel. But due to our kind of person, we don`t give a damn.)
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Translations
- English: showoff, to act up