Difference between revisions of "face back"

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Make person carry face dey look back.
 
Make person carry face dey look back.

Revision as of 17:25, 3 February 2021

Naija

Etymology

From English: face and back

Pronunciation

  • fésbâk

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Frequency

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

Verb phrase

Intransitive

Make person carry face dey look back.

  • Face back jor. See as you be like person wey dem mould.  — Egbokhare_2020, Turn backward! You look like a molded person.)
  • You no dey hear say make you Face back?  — NSC_Olukayode.S.M_2021, Can't you hear when you were asked to turn your back?)

Antonyms

Translations

  • English: to face backward