hole

Naija

Alternative forms

• hol

Etymology

Borrowed from English hole

Pronunciation

• hô

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 2
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1964
• Frequency in raw corpus: 104
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 2026

The word is used more orally than in written texts.

Noun

hole: vagina -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   E dey use im hole for money.  — no translation

2. - (frequency:19)

   Dat na hole punch.  — (bbc__101848, __no translation__)

   Di pot get hole for under.  — (BEN_36_Clever-Girl_MG__70, The pot has a hole in the bottom.)

3. det (frequency:12)

   As e reach there, e enter one hole go sleep.  — (jw__27837, __no translation__)

   But wait, you sabi di hole punch wey we dey talk?  — (bbc__94619, __no translation__)

4. amod (frequency:8)

   Dem go sew di place just leave small hole.  — (bbc__96546, __no translation__)

   We talk about different proverbs, push different hole to the matter.  — (NST_cleaned__41207, __no translation__)

5. case-det (frequency:7)

   But Jehovah help am comot for the hole, e no die!  — (jw__11694, __no translation__)

   Dem use two wood take cross the center of the hole.  — (jw__22105, __no translation__)

6. case (frequency:6)

   For example, e save Jeremiah when some people throwey am for inside hole.  — (jw__18642, __no translation__)

   E get one guy wey dey tell me sey he no fit marry girl wey get more dan one hole for her ear.  — (JOS_07_Trousers-And-Short-Skirts_DG__3, There is a guy that is telling me that he cannot marry a girl who has more than one hole in her ear.)

7. amod-det (frequency:5)

   Na one small hole somewhere dem use enta to escape.  — (bbc__1218, __no translation__)

   Di black hole dey 500 million trillion km away and na network of eight telescopes across di world snap im foto.  — (bbc__33308, __no translation__)

8. amod-case (frequency:3)

   Di kwesion wey dey surprising pass na wetin go happun wen object fall enta inside black hole.  — (bbc__40605, __no translation__)

   Before dem bin release di photo, she post for Facebook say she no belief as di first image she ever make of black hole dey in di process of being reality  — (bbc__19483, __no translation__)

9. amod-case-det (frequency:3)

   Make we kill am!’ Dem drag am, come throwey am inside one deep hole.  — (jw__27936, __no translation__)

   Dis na point of no return, beyond which ie dey impossible to escape di gravitational effects of di black hole  — (bbc__20218, __no translation__)

10. nmod (frequency:2)

    Na round hole for side of one hill them dey follow enter the shrine.  — (katakata__341, __no translation__)

    Countries dey gather to comot plastic from sea Thief dig underground hole take rob bank for Kenya  — (bbc__26276, __no translation__)

11. acl:relcl (frequency:2)

    Dem put am for basket come use am pass hole wey dey Damascus fence.  — (jw__12596, __no translation__)

    For there, dem come tell me sey make I dig hole wey soldiers go dey hide as dem dey fight war.  — (jw__15717, __no translation__)

12. acl:relcl-det (frequency:2)

    Make you no just use di hole wey person get for ear take am dey judge di person.  — (JOS_06_Ear-Piercing_DG__138, You should not just use the hole that a person has in his/her ear to judge people.)

    E get one hole wey dey near us as di plane don brake, I tell my girl say we go need to jump from hia, na so we take jump, na so she tok.  — (bbc__3294, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• pot 0.80 145, container 0.78 72, box 0.73 156, wood 0.73 72, ship 0.72 128, bag 0.72 175, tree 0.72 221, roof 0.69 44, net 0.69 149

Antonyms

• pot 0.80 145, container 0.78 72, box 0.73 156, wood 0.73 72, ship 0.72 128, bag 0.72 175, tree 0.72 221, roof 0.69 44, net 0.69 149

Translations

• English: vagina