egunje

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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

Dem dey use am especially uniform people

Definition

Na di illegal money wey de dey give.

Noun

• If you give police egunje, dem go allow you 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 dare to give them illegal fees.)

Related forms

• wuruwuru, magomago, drop

Translations

• English: bribe, gratification