Difference between revisions of "kakup"

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===Pronunciation===
 
===Pronunciation===
 
* kákʌp
 
* kákʌp
<sm2>Pcm-ng-kak.f.ogg</sm2>  
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<sm2>Pcm-ng-kakup.f.ogg</sm2>  
<sm2>Pcm-ng-kak.m.ogg</sm2>  
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<sm2>Pcm-ng-kakup.m.ogg</sm2>  
  
===Frequency===
 
* Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
 
* Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
 
* Frequency in raw corpus: 34
 
* Frequency rank in raw corpus: 4043
 
  
 
===Verb===
 
===Verb===
====Intransitive====
 
 
Make person dress well.
 
Make person dress well.
 
* {{ux|dv|Dat babe '''kakup''' for dat party, sotey I no fit look my bae wey sidon for my side.|(NSC_Shulammite 2020, The lady was so well dressed, that I barely looked at my girlfriend who was sited beside me.)}}   
 
* {{ux|dv|Dat babe '''kakup''' for dat party, sotey I no fit look my bae wey sidon for my side.|(NSC_Shulammite 2020, The lady was so well dressed, that I barely looked at my girlfriend who was sited beside me.)}}   

Revision as of 13:56, 1 July 2021

Naija

Etymology

From: English khaki

Pronunciation

  • kákʌp

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Verb

Make person dress well.

  • Dat babe kakup for dat party, sotey I no fit look my bae wey sidon for my side.  — (NSC_Shulammite 2020, The lady was so well dressed, that I barely looked at my girlfriend who was sited beside me.)
  • Good make man pikin dey kakup wen he dey comot, cause this life na one o.  — (NSC_Shulammite 2020, It is of necessity for a man to dress nicely when going out.)

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Translations

  • English: dress up