houseboy

Naija

Etymology

Borrowed from English houseboy

Pronunciation

• háúsbɔ́ì

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 7
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 9986

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Noun

houseboy: a male house keeper -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Our houseboy dey wash car.  — no translation

2. - (frequency:4)

   Dem dey do prostitution and houseboy work.  — (bbc__55031, __no translation__)

   E also include to sell pickin to dey beg and do houseboy work without pay.  — (bbc__39286, __no translation__)

3. conj (frequency:2)

   or de go give am job make e be houseboy or housegirl for where no be im papa and mama house.  — (hildrights__38, __no translation__)

   De no go use pikin take dey do begbeg, to dey follow people wey dey begbeg, ashawo, houseboy or house girl or ashawo work or any oder ting wey no dey follow law or dey do bad ting ;  — (hildrights__268, __no translation__)

Related forms

• housegirl

Synonyms

• boyboy

Antonyms

• housegirl

Translations

• English: a male house keeper