Difference between revisions of "housegirl"

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===Noun===
 
===Noun===
housegirl: a female house maid -- Definition in Naija?
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Na girl or woman wey dey stay with oga and madam dey work for dem.
  
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#:*{{ux|dv|Na our '''housegirl''' dey wash our cloth o.|(Egbokhare_2021, Our maid does the laundry.)}}
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#:*{{ux|dv|E no get '''housegirl''', e no get [[houseboy]], e no get who dey help am. |(BEN_01_Woman-Life-No-Easy_M__43, She has neither a maid nor houseboy or anyone assist him/her.)}}
  
# Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
 
#: {{ux|dv|Na our '''housegirl''' dey wash our cloth o.|no translation}}
 
# - (frequency:4)
 
#: {{ux|dv|E no get '''housegirl''', e no get house boy, e no get who dey help am. |(BEN_01_Woman-Life-No-Easy_M__43, She doesn't have a maid. She doesn't have a houseboy. She has nobody to help her.)}}
 
#: {{ux|dv|How dead cows from Adamawa land Port Harcourt slaughter yet dem butcher, sell am to pipo How madam take pour hot water for '''housegirl''' bodi say she sleep for sofa |(bbc__56404, __no translation__)}}
 
  
====Derived forms====
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====Related forms====
 
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* [[houseboy]], [[househelp]]
 
 
====Synonyms====
 
* sofa 0.87 5, vomiting 0.85 9, rashes 0.83 17, fluid 0.82 5, stomach 0.81 27, ulcer 0.81 15, ewere 0.81 16, pineapple 0.80 7, shoemaker 0.80 7
 
  
 
====Antonyms====
 
====Antonyms====
* sofa 0.87 5, vomiting 0.85 9, rashes 0.83 17, fluid 0.82 5, stomach 0.81 27, ulcer 0.81 15, ewere 0.81 16, pineapple 0.80 7, shoemaker 0.80 7
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* [[houseboy]]
  
 
====Translations====
 
====Translations====
* English: a female house maid
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* English: ''maid''

Revision as of 19:11, 4 February 2021

Naija

Etymology

Borrowed from English housegirl

Pronunciation

  • háúsgɛ̂

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 5
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 12094

Noun

Na girl or woman wey dey stay with oga and madam dey work for dem.

    • Na our housegirl dey wash our cloth o.  — (Egbokhare_2021, Our maid does the laundry.)
    • E no get housegirl, e no get houseboy, e no get who dey help am.  — (BEN_01_Woman-Life-No-Easy_M__43, She has neither a maid nor houseboy or anyone assist him/her.)


Related forms

Antonyms

Translations

  • English: maid