guyman
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
From: English guy and man
Pronunciation
- gàìmán
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
- Frequency in raw corpus: 3
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 15509
Definition
Person wey be sey e dey sharp to know as matter dey be.
Noun
- As guyman I like cloth so I con dey get fashion segment wey I dey do, base on sey me, I know sey I fit tell you sey but dat shoe wey you wear e no pure wit dat trouser. — (WAZK_11, As a streetwise person I like clot'hes, so I got a fashion segment to do, because I know that I can tell you that your shoe does not go well with your trouser.)
- You be guyman now. Why you dey do like sey you no know sey all di politicians dey use us do kalokalo? — (NSC_Onwuegbuzia_2020, You are street smart, why are you acting like you don't know that all these politicians are just playing games with us.)
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Translations
- English: a street smart person