eye

Naija

Etymology

from: English eye

Pronunciation

• aɪ

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 24
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 401
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1768
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 217

Definition

Watin person dey take see light.

Noun

1. Di part of man body wey e dey take see tings well.

   • My eye dey pain me since morning o  — (NSC__Shulammite_2020_ My eye has been paining me since morning. )
   • Look the police for eye.  — (jw__2315, __no translation__)
   • Stone don enter im eye as e dey play with sand sand outside.  — (NSC__Shulammite_2020_ Stone particles has entered his eye while playing outside with sand.)

2. Make person dey look sombody wan kain wan kain.

   • For di fight today ehn! na so dem begin to dey eye dem sef  — (NSC__Shulammite_2020_ During the fight today, they started making faces at each other.)y

3. Di wey person dey look something/somebody.

   • Which kind eye Jehovah take look Daniel?  — (jw__45583, __no translation__)
   • Which kind eye we go take look the work wey dem give us?  — (jw__45597, __no translation__)
   • Which eye I expect say make e take look me?  — (deuber__6567, __no translation__)

   Di arrival of 188 Nigerians na sign say di eye Nigeria take dey look South Africa fit don enta red.  — (bbc__33094, __no translation__)

1. Make person dey careful.

   Put eye down.  — (jw__30546, __no translation__)

2. Make person start to dey wise up.

   • Come dey open eye small.  — (WAZK_10_Muhammeds-Life-Story_M__19, Then, I started seeing thing from my own perspective.)

3. sey dem dey monitor person waka waka.

   • You don dey put me for eye.  — (LAG_39_Recording-Wahala_T__16, You have started to pull my leg.)

4. Make person deal with anoder person.

   • E be like sey I go chop people eye.  — (IBA_06_Linguistic-Fieldwork_DG__234, It seems I will eat people's eyes.)

5. Make person dey get longer throat for someting.

   Saraki na number three oga for Nigeria goment and e belike say im dey eye to be Presido Supreme Court don pass judgement say senate president Dr.  — (bbc__87021, __no translation__)

   • Some men na big eye dem get,  — (NST_cleaned__14300, __no translation__)

6. Make person dey vex.

   • Top-flight Spanish Club Barcelona eye dey red.  — (bbc__85344, __no translation__)

7. Make person join mouth put for something.

   • Tori be say na sports and politics na im Weah go put eye and mouth ontop.  — (bbc__95224, __no translation__)
   • dem wan put eye and mouth, so dat di discussion no go turn to fight-fight.  — (bbc__25440, __no translation__)

8. make person dey do watin dem know sey e bad.

   • God go punish people wey open eye do wetin e no like.​— Heb.  — (jw__32645, __no translation__)

9. sey person go/ no go dey see koro koro with something/person

   • Like Saraki, Kwankwaso comot from APC and re-join PDP wen im stop to dey see eye to eye wit di way di party dey waka.  — (bbc__63889, __no translation__)
   • Dis result mean say e don divide di party as 33% of her own lawmakers from now no go continue to see eye to eye wit any of her plans.  — (bbc__42586, __no translation__)
   • If you don see love before eye too eye, if you don see love before, you go know sey love dey exist.  — (NST_cleaned__18824, __no translation__)

10. Person wey dey streetwise.

    De plenti waka waka, as e no di stay for kontri don make pipo di shine eye for weti e di do.  — (bbc__27632, __no translation__)

    All kontri dem need for look for how their future go be, shine eye for educate young pipo, especially girl pikin dem, e bi important for promote stem education for girls.  — (bbc__300, __no translation__)

    Di statement say dis kain thing don spoil di image of di Union for government and public eye, say dem dey promote illegal activities.  — (bbc__38571, __no translation__)

11. Make person dey focus on top one matter.

    Auba' continue di new campaign from where im stop di last one - with im movement wey no dey end and sharp eye' for goal to strike reach eight times for di first six games wey di league play.  — (bbc__8664, __no translation__)

Derived forms

• beta eye

1. Dem fit no succeed evritime but as dem dey use beta eye look evritin, e dey make tins fit work even wen e dey bad.  — (bbc__29086, __no translation__)

   Lawyers and activist dem bin waka go di State House for Alausa, Ikeja say make di government use beta eye to check di thing becos e fit add join di suffer-head wey Lagosians dey face.  — (bbc__63573, __no translation__)

• eye man

1. Even sef, when e still small, e dey pain am for body say im papa nay eye man.  — (katakata__541, __no translation__)

   No matter how man get for harnd reach, if e no fit control im women and im children , nay eye man.  — (katakata__229, __no translation__)

• eye sake

1. Award winning American singer dey look prison for eye sake of im latest qwanta wit authorities dem, dis time na Monkey cause am.  — (bbc__18130, __no translation__)

   No be today, e don tey wey dem don dey look DSS oga Lawal Musa Daura wit one eye sake of im dey among di pipo wey dey spoil goment name.  — (bbc__75108, __no translation__)

• man eye

1. Wetin make the man eye blind and, wetin no cause am?  — (jw__42479, __no translation__)

   Wetin show sey Pharisee people no get one mind about the blind man eye wey open?  — (jw__42663, __no translation__)

• pipo eye

1. E go help Hollywood dey show tori from oda pipo eye.  — (bbc__44613, __no translation__)

   But wetin catch pipo eye na say oga Kim dey cari im toilet dey waka.  — (bbc__23699, __no translation__)

• shine eye

1. Pipo di shine eye for see how de bad April fool joke go end.  — (bbc__81471, __no translation__)

   Cameroon try for keep dia chance for host Africa Nations Championship, CHAN 2020 no include Olembe stadium for dia list as Africa football bodi, Caf mission di shine eye for infrastructure wan use.  — (bbc__24595, __no translation__)

• side eye

1. Pipo don dey take side eye look vaccines since modern vaccines comot.  — (bbc__81488, __no translation__)

   Tori pipo report say di court dey look di case wit side eye as no legal ground dey for pesin to change dia date of birth.  — (bbc__95564, __no translation__)

Related Form

Synonyms

• mouth 0.80 1242, eyes 0.72 198, hand 0.58 3099, bodi 0.57 1294, head 0.57 1697, ground 0.55 1376, mind 0.54 3840, body 0.53 1958, hands 0.49 154

Antonyms

• mouth 0.80 1242, eyes 0.72 198, hand 0.58 3099, bodi 0.57 1294, head 0.57 1697, ground 0.55 1376, mind 0.54 3840, body 0.53 1958, hands 0.49 154

Translations

• English: eye, stare, greedy, aware