dust

Naija

Alternative forms

• dost

Etymology

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

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