egunje

Naija

Etymology

From Yoruba:egunje

Pronunciation

• ègúndʒē

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 4
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 14003

Usage

de dey use am for west.(Yoruba land)

Definition

Egunje: Na de kin illegal things wey people dey do or give, wey (like money) no clean at all.

Noun

• If you give police egunje, dem go allow drive pass.  — (Egbokhare 2020,If you tip the police officers, you will pass through.
• Nobody go come meet dem give dem egunje  — ( No one will give them illegal fees.)

Related

• roger, kola nut, wuru wuru, mago mago

Translations

• English: bribe, gratification