housegirl
Naija
Etymology
Borrowed from English housegirl
Pronunciation
- háúsgɛ̂
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
- Frequency in raw corpus: 5
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 12094
Noun
housegirl: a female house maid -- Definition in Naija?
- Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)
- Na our housegirl dey wash our cloth o. — no translation
- - (frequency:4)
- 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.)
- 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
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
- 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
Translations
- English: a female house maid