housegirl

Naija

Alternative forms

• 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

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

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Noun

housegirl: a female house maid -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   Na our housegirl dey wash our cloth o.  — no translation

2. - (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__)

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