housegirl

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.

1. • 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

• houseboy, househelp

Antonyms

• houseboy

Translations

• English: maid