dust

Naija

Alternative forms

• tears 0.73 48, sand 0.71 164, firewood 0.69 36, nose 0.69 56, bucket 0.68 26, thick 0.67 36, kaya 0.67 20, egusi 0.67 35, cocoyam 0.67 22

Etymology

Borrowed from English dust

Pronunciation

• dɔ̂st

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 7
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 959
• Frequency in raw corpus: 47
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 3268

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

dust: no definition -- Definition in Naija?

1. - (frequency:17)

   Na dust, na im dem form us from.  — (NST_cleaned__39721, __no translation__)

   Dust cover the suit wey dem wear.  — (jw__40073, __no translation__)

2. cc (frequency:3)

   To dey travel all di time for inside hot sun and dust dey make me sick.  — (bbc__6357, __no translation__)

   Rose Okewu say sometimes she dey cough blood and dust and di company no dey carry dem go hospital.  — (bbc__91146, __no translation__)

3. case (frequency:3)

   Dey equally no wear hand gloves, boots and something to take to cover dia nose from dust.  — (bbc__30221, __no translation__)

   Di top side get reddish colour, no get water or ice, no show any signs of dust, and dem believe say e get high metal content.  — (bbc__29326, __no translation__)

4. amod (frequency:3)

   Dis decision don raise plenti dust.  — (bbc__100880, __no translation__)

   omo na dust o na real dust na real dust  — (deuber__1526, __no translation__)

5. det (frequency:2)

   See style, see di dust, everyting o,  — (NST_cleaned__17328, __no translation__)

   Anywhere wey dem no welcome una or listen to una, as una dey comot from that house or town, make una shake the dust comot from una leg.”— Matthew 10:12-14 .  — (jw__14953, __no translation__)

6. conj (frequency:2)

   But drugs weh deh di sell for road di get problem for seka say deh di leave'am for sun, dust and win, Dr Nick Ngwayam tok.  — (bbc__22509, __no translation__)

   Glasses and face mask good too because e dey help make dust and dirty no enter eye and nose, against catarrh and cough upandan.  — (bbc__54263, __no translation__)

7. acl:relcl (frequency:2)

   The ashes come be dust wey enter Egypt people body.  — (jw__18002, __no translation__)

   Everybody dey say make we boycott BA because one Junior staff yarn dust wey all of us dey do once in a while.  — (bbc__2710, __no translation__)

Derived forms

• dust mouth

1. Who we wan tell now sey make de dust mouth,  — (WAZK_09_Fuel-Price-Increase_M__57, Who do we want to tell now that they should dust their mouths ?)

   Because me I no really know who we wan tell make de dust mouth.  — (WAZK_09_Fuel-Price-Increase_M__58, Because I, I don't really know who we want to tell that they should dust their mouths.)

Synonyms

• tears 0.73 48, sand 0.71 164, firewood 0.69 36, nose 0.69 56, bucket 0.68 26, thick 0.67 36, kaya 0.67 20, egusi 0.67 35, cocoyam 0.67 22

Antonyms

• tears 0.73 48, sand 0.71 164, firewood 0.69 36, nose 0.69 56, bucket 0.68 26, thick 0.67 36, kaya 0.67 20, egusi 0.67 35, cocoyam 0.67 22

Translations

• English: no definition

Verb

dust: to beat in a competition with a wide margin -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Musa dust am for di race.  — (Musa won her with a wide margin in the race.)

Synonyms

• tears 0.73 48, sand 0.71 164, firewood 0.69 36, nose 0.69 56, bucket 0.68 26, thick 0.67 36, kaya 0.67 20, egusi 0.67 35, cocoyam 0.67 22

Antonyms

• tears 0.73 48, sand 0.71 164, firewood 0.69 36, nose 0.69 56, bucket 0.68 26, thick 0.67 36, kaya 0.67 20, egusi 0.67 35, cocoyam 0.67 22

Translations

• English: to beat in a competition with a wide margin