face

Naija

Etymology

From: English face

Pronunciation

• fês

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 30
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 353
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1956
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 192

Definition

• Part of person head wey dey front.

Noun

1. part of person head wey nose, eyes and mouth dey.

   • Na only oil man pikin just dey rub for face.  — (IBA_17_Julie-And-Danile_DG__37, It is only oil that I rub on my face.)
   • APC women and men wear cloth wey dem put Muhammadu Buhari face ontop  — (BBC, 10884, APC women and men wore cloth with Muhammadu Buhari's picture)
   • Some pipo name and face no too show well well for di register wey INEC release for some places  — (bbc__91481, Some people's name and faces did not show clearly in the register released by INEC in some places)

2. Sey person or ting come show

   • Wizkid must show face  — (bbc_101082, Wizkid must be there. )
   • Opposition no show face for di ceremony.  — (bbc_79222, The opposition did not come. )
   • Overseas jollof show face for di festival.  — (BBC__79763, Overseas jollof was brought to the festival)

3. person mind

   • Nigerians no get joy for face for EndSARS matter.  — (NSC_Agnes__34420, Nigerians are unhappy over the EndSARS issue.)

4. na for person not to get heart.

   • if dem born Rose well make she come try look my face  — (NSC_Agnes_2020, If Rose dares, let her confront me.)

5. na make person dey look God for things to fit better

   • make we dey look God face  — (Deuber, 4527, Let us rely on God.)
   • Oloko say, China get population of 1.4 billion and dem go first settle dia own citizens before dem look oda pipo face.  — (bbc__77353, __no translation__)

6. na make person look no tell who e be true true

   • Di man no kuku write I don marry for face.  — (LAG_36_Marriage_DG__17, The man did not write I am married on his face.)
   • Give police new face  — (bbc__54256, The police needs rebranding)

7. when person no fit look comot eye

   • Di business don big sotay authorities sef no fit comot dia face again.  — (bbc__102450, The business has become so big the authorities can no longer overlook it. )

Related forms

forehead, Mopol face, vex-vex '''face''', facecap.

Synonyms

• presence, hope, seriousness

Translations

• English: physical feature, facial expression.

Verb

1. make person face challenge

   • To face people wey dey try you.  — (jw__37647, To deal with those who dare you.)
   • Later, Sennacherib come face Jerusalem.  — (jw__34008, __no translation__)
   • Na only young people dey face wahala?  — (jw__46468, __no translation__)
   • No matter wetin you dey face,  — (jw__27235, no matter the challenge)
   • Boris Johnson dey face 'sack'?  — (bbc__100211, __no translation__)
   • make people go work, and face their business.  — (bbc__69951, __no translation__)
   • Whether now or later, we go choose wetin we want do and face wetin go come out of am.  — (jw__45400, __no translation__)
   • So haha na wetin you dey face I dey face.  — (NST_cleaned__15003, __no translation__)
   • One time dey sef wey l wan kill myself to free myself for di wahala l dey face, Musbahu confess.  — (bbc__5615, __no translation__)
   • E go do some kain calculation for your face base on di foto wey you put for di app and adjust am based on oda imagery.  — (bbc__28752, __no translation__)
   • President Muhammadu Buhari don comot inside press statement to tok ontop say court don free Senator Bukola Saraki, im tok say no mata di challenge wey di kontri judicial system dey face, di system dey work and make dem no allow anybody to chook hand to spoil am.  — (bbc__18839, __no translation__)
   • Dis 19 year old face wahala to go school after she run from Syria enter Jordan for 2013. She no want any other pickin to face dat kain wahala most especially refugee pickin dem.  — (bbc__40121, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• jam

Translations

• English: challenges