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

Definition

sand sand

Noun

• Sand sand

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

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

1. matter wey de cause trouble

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

1. to talk yeye word for mouth

   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__)

Translations

• English: dust

Verb

• sey person sabi run fiam

1. Ben Johnson go fit dust Usain Bolt if deir two challenge?  — (NSC__Odirin 2020, Can Ben Johnson run faster than Usain Bolt if both of them are allowed to challenge each other?)

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