houseboy

Naija

Etymology

From: English house and boy

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

Noun

  • Na boy or man wey dey stay with oga and madam dey work for dem.
  • Our houseboy dey wash car.  — (Egbokhare_2021, The housekeeper is washing the car.)
  • E also include to sell pikin to dey beg and do houseboy work without pay.  — (bbc__39286, It involves child labour and housekeeping without monetary rewards.)


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  • English: a male house keeper