kpako

Naija

Etymology

From: Yoruba pako (wood)

Pronunciation

• kpákó

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 3
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1772
• Frequency in raw corpus: 7
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 9428

Noun

Person wey no get money, wey dey struggle for everyting for life.

1. All dese kpako dem, dem too dey make noise.  — Egbokhare _2020, The not so rich people, disturbs a lot.)

   Kpako no get time for dat one o.  — (PRT_05_Ghetto-Life_MG__10, The poor have time for that.)

   We wey be kpako, we no get time to con form mummies pet.  — (NST_cleaned__41717, Those of us born with a wooden spoon, have no time to be pampered by our mums.)

   And one ting be sey ajebo no go fit mix with ghet-... eh kpako.  — (PRT_05_Ghetto-Life_MG__8, And the fact is that the spoilt brats can't mix with the ghet-... uh, the underprivileged.)

Derived forms

• ajekpako,ajekpaki

Antonyms

• ajebutter

Translations

• English: one from a poor home, one accustomed to the struggles of life as a result of his/her background