Difference between revisions of "jagajaga"

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===Noun===
 
===Noun===
* Wetin no [[make sense]]
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* Wetin no [[make sense]].
:* {{ux|dv| Instead make una behave normal like people wey dey normal, una do '''jagajaga''' like fowl wey dey find food.|(NSC_2021, You lot should have behaved like you were expected to, instead you behave nonsensically like a chicken trying to claw for some food. )}}
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:* {{ux|dv| Instead make una behave normal like people wey dey normal, una do '''jagajaga''' like fowl wey dey find food.|(NSC_2021, You lot should have behaved like you were expected to, instead you behave nonsensically like chickens trying to claw for some food.)}}
:* {{ux|dv| Wetin your pikin dey write? ABCD or '''jagajaga'''? |(NSC_2021, What is your child writing? The alphabet or nonsense?)}}
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:* {{ux|dv| Wetin your pikin dey write? ABCD or '''jagajaga'''?|(NSC_2021, What is your child writing? The alphabet or nonsense?)}}
 
====Translation====
 
====Translation====
 
English: ''nonsense''
 
English: ''nonsense''

Revision as of 21:57, 2 October 2022

Naija

Etymology

From: unknown

Pronunciation

d͡ʒàgàd͡ʒágá

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Noun

  • Instead make una behave normal like people wey dey normal, una do jagajaga like fowl wey dey find food.  — (NSC_2021, You lot should have behaved like you were expected to, instead you behave nonsensically like chickens trying to claw for some food.)
  • Wetin your pikin dey write? ABCD or jagajaga?  — (NSC_2021, What is your child writing? The alphabet or nonsense?)

Translation

English: nonsense

Adjective

  • Make someting no make sense
  • If person show imsef sey e be jagajaga person, discharge comot for di place.  — (NSC_2021, If a person shows himself or herself to be nonsensical, leave the place.)
  • Di road don jagajaga. Wetin supppose be one hour journey don turn four hours, if rain use style fall, e fit reach six hours.  — (NSC_2021, The road has become very bad. What should have been a one hour journey now takes four hours. If it rains, it could take six hours.)

Translation

  • English: nonsense, bad