juju

Naija

Alternative forms

• jehovah 0.56 9478, soldier 0.55 345, babylon 0.55 165, israel 0.53 731, cutlass 0.50 38, god 0.49 7452, jezebel 0.49 28, street 0.47 411, coup 0.46 172

Etymology

Borrowed from English juju

Pronunciation

• dʒùdʒú

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 1
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 3622
• Frequency in raw corpus: 128
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1775

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Noun

juju: charms -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   di only tin wey you know na to dey do juju upandown.  — no translation

2. - (frequency:75)

   Juju.  — (IBA_22_School-Children_DG__102, Voodoo.)

   Na juju im dey use.  — (NST_cleaned__31395, __no translation__)

3. case (frequency:6)

   Na so you talk sey I be, I dey believe in juju,  — (IBA_22_School-Children_DG__194, That is how you said I believe in voodoo.)

   While some pipo no see am, odas dey look di mata wella weda e get sometin to do with juju.  — (bbc__100066, __no translation__)

4. nmod:poss (frequency:5)

   Na im make Israel people join dem dey serve their juju.  — (jw__46702, __no translation__)

   But when Ammon people come fight dem, their juju no fit help dem.  — (jw__17403, __no translation__)

5. acl:relcl-det (frequency:4)

   E get one juju for fight wey e be say e don tay well well.  — (katakata__894, __no translation__)

   Ahab and im wife, Jezebel, dey serve one juju wey dem dey call Baal.  — (jw__4004, __no translation__)

6. det (frequency:3)

   Nobody fit say the time wey them get that juju.  — (katakata__895, __no translation__)

   Meanwhile, menstruation na wahala wey dem dey feel say dey spoil di juju.  — (bbc__66599, __no translation__)

7. amod (frequency:2)

   If to say Umuofia no obey the oracle, them for lose, because why agadi-nwanyi wey be hot juju no dey go ever fight the kind fight wey Ibo people dey call fight wey no get head.  — (katakata__317, __no translation__)

   Except you change your lifestyle, and begin dey tink of God, except you leave di old way wey you dey worship oder juju, oder tings, and begin dey worship di true God wey dey heaven, you no go fit do wetin I dey do.  — (NST_cleaned__38305, __no translation__)

8. acl:relcl (frequency:2)

   While some dey think say e fit be juju wey some pipo send come di village from anoda place.  — (bbc__100058, __no translation__)

   Though na different version of dis match different people dey talk, all of dem gree say di Indians get chance to score all dis plenty goals because dem use juju, wey be black magic.  — (bbc__93819, __no translation__)

9. case-conj (frequency:2)

   Na all this thing worry am pass fear of juju or the bad people or even the forest.  — (katakata__537, __no translation__)

   For their eye, e bad to chop blood just as e bad to put hand for juju or sex matter wey no clean for God eye.  — (jw__32877, __no translation__)

10. advmod-det (frequency:2)

    Jehoiada tell dem make dem scatter all the juju temple and pieces all the juju.  — (jw__17655, __no translation__)

    After that one, Jehu come kill Ahab 70 boy pikin, e still comot all the juju from the land.  — (jw__885, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• jehovah 0.56 9478, soldier 0.55 345, babylon 0.55 165, israel 0.53 731, cutlass 0.50 38, god 0.49 7452, jezebel 0.49 28, street 0.47 411, coup 0.46 172

Antonyms

• jehovah 0.56 9478, soldier 0.55 345, babylon 0.55 165, israel 0.53 731, cutlass 0.50 38, god 0.49 7452, jezebel 0.49 28, street 0.47 411, coup 0.46 172

Translations

• English: charms